Netflix reported an excellent quarter after the close yesterday (Monday October 23, 2006) and the shares are popping today – up $4.12 to $27.35 with 8.7 million shares trading hands, according to Money Central (1:48pm EST, quotes 15 min delayed). If…
The market responded negatively to Yahoo!’s mediocre 3rd quarter – even though everybody knew it was coming! Yahoo’s shares lost $1.16 yesterday to close at $22.99 on volume of almost 112 million shares. The shares have bounced a bit today and…
Since reporting 2nd quarter earnings 3 months ago, on Tuesday July 18, 2006 after the close, Yahoo’s stock (NASDAQ: YHOO) has been absolutely hammered. When it announced 2nd quarter results, it also announced that it will delay the release of…
Its time to take stock of this quarter’s stock picks. 9 of 10 of Top Gun’s picks are up from their recommendation date, and the 10 are up an average of 7.30% compared with a 3.51% average for the S&P…
I find Morningstar’s stock and mutual fund analysis useful, which is why I am a premium subscriber, but I am constantly frustrated with their lack of an ability to integrate a macro economic perspective into their analyses. They seem to…
There is one thing I can pretty much guarantee you: come hell or high water, Americans will continue to watch alot of TV and spend alot of time surfing the internet. In fact Nielsen Media Reseach today came out with…
You might have noticed that gas has become alot more expensive the last couple of years. One reason for that is that oil, the raw material from which gas is produced, has gotten more expensive due to growing demand around…
When Al Qaeda struck the World Trade Center on Sept 11, 2001 it ended an era of relative global peace that had begun with the fall of the Soviet Union and the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989. …
Whole Foods (NASDAQ: WFMI), a stock I recommended 2 weeks ago, got a favorable write up in this weekend’s Barron’s (subscription required). Barron’s is widely read among professional investors who frequently buy up large quantities of the stocks recommended by…
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) today reported 4th quarter and fiscal year 2006 results that were positively received by Wall Street. The shares jumped $2.49 to $19.78, a more than 14% increase, as 221.6 million shares, 3.64% of the company, traded…