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It is far from a secret that Research-in-Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is in trouble.  It is a classic value trap rather than a value stock.  I recently  had an interesting conversation with a trader...
Gamestop Corporation (NYSE: GME) is still sitting in the same sort of No-Man’s Land position its chart has been in for some time.  With a $3.2 billion market cap, its $23.50 share price is in the...
Short sellers reduced their positions in major financial firms and their positions in major tech stocks were divided, based on data from the NYSE and Nasdaq for the period that ended February 29....
Cult stocks and controversial stocks often have an unusually high short interest.  What is amazing is that the bets against these companies sometimes go off the charts and we see some very large...
Solar stocks are on fire.  Still, they are so far down from a year ago that celebrating the move it difficult to do.  To show just how powerful this move up and down and up has been, look no...
Cult stocks and controversial stocks often have an unusually high short interest.  What is amazing is that the bets against these companies sometimes go off the charts.  We have tracked unusual...
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is out with a huge headline loss due to that $4 billion break-up fee paid charge from the failed T-Mobile merger.  The headline loss is -$1.12 EPS and the total loss after...
For the first time in a long time, short sellers have increased their bets that the stock prices of most large companies and in most large sectors will fall. The NYSE and Nasdaq released their...
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) is due to report its quarterly earnings for its fourth quarter on Thursday morning and estimates are $0.45 EPS and $31.94 billion in sales.  Shares are still hanging north of...
The coming week is going to be yet another action packed week of big corporate earnings which will move markets or will move their sectors.  24/7 Wall St. has identified the DJIA components...
Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN) soared almost 40% in value, or $3.02 a share, in active trading on Thursday after announcing that fourth-quarter revenue from its Provenge prostate-cancer vaccine would exceed...
Sirius XMSIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is an interesting stock in an interesting space in time.  After two big positive analyst calls just last week, it is interesting to see that the as of...
The mid-November NASDAQ short interest may have been lost in the Thanksgiving and Black Friday shuffle, but there were some very interesting and in some cases startling short interest factoids in the...
The attack on Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) is unfortunately reminiscent of larger implosions of firms formerly named Lehman and Bear Stearns.  It almost does not seem to matter what Jefferies...
Groupon, Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) is trading lower this morning.  What we knew going into this week was that Monday would mark the start of stock options trading in Groupon.  This allows traders to...