A number of stocks were upgraded and downgraded by Wall Street analysts on Tuesday.[More...]

Aruba Networks, Inc. is facing intense rivalry from Cisco Systems, Inc. It is evident from its recent statements that have shifted from citing the macro environment to pointing to competition for its sharp revenue shortfall.[More...]

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U.S. stock-index futures pointed to a flat opening on the Wall Street as investors await speeches by Federal Reserve officials for hints on any tapering of the quantitative easing program.[More...]

Medtronic Inc. (NYSE: MDT) posted stronger-than-forecast quarterly earnings, helped by double-digit revenue growth in emerging markets, and shares of the medical technology company gained 4.83 percent in Tuesday premarket trading.[More...]

AutoZone Inc. (NYSE: AZO), a retailer of automotive replacement parts, posted a 7 percent increase in quarterly earnings, helped by sales growth and improvement in margins. Bottom-line beat market expectations, while sales were slightly short of consensus.[More...]

Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) posted lower earnings from continuing operations as comparable store sales fell for the three months ended May 4, 2013. Domestic comparable store sales fell 1.1 percent due to the Super Bowl shifting into last year's fourth quarter.[More...]

I have not been a fan of this rally, and I have been selling into it.  I do have a rule for equity clients — cash never goes above 20%.  I have been close to that recently, and after rebalancing some companies that have hit the top of the weighting band, I have bought those companies with the lowest weights in the portfolio.  I have also added some stable companies in the recent past — Berkshire Hathaway, Ingram Micro, Validus Holdings, AFLAC, and CST Brands.[More...]

The Congressional Budget Office put conservative economic thinkers on their ass this week. In this Report (pdf), the CBO concluded that the US budget deficit is about to collapse to insignificance.[More...]

Everyone knows the odds of winning in a casino are worse than 50% (often much worse depending on the game played). So who wouldn't rush to a casino where, instead, the odds were overwhelmingly in the gambler's favor?[More...]

Japan's stock market is on a roll, largely because expectations have dramatically changed this year about the underlying state of macro for the planet's third-largest economy. The iShares MSCI Japan Index ETF (EWJ) is up a potent 24% year-to-date.[More...]

Consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE:BBY) is expected to report its first quarter financial results on May 21.[More...]

TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), a digital-video company, posted a narrower quarterly loss, helped by higher service and technology revenue.[More...]

U.S. stocks closed modestly lower as investors digested comments from Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans and news of corporate deals.[More...]

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. (DKS) will announce results for the first quarter of 2013 before the market opens on Tuesday, May 21st.[More...]

Analog Devices, Inc. (NYSE:ADI) is expected to report second quarter financial results on May 21.[More...]

Shares in ING Group’s U.S. retirement, investment and insurance business are up as much as 8.0% today to $26.98, the highest level since the company’s May 2nd IPO.[More...]

NanoString Technologies, a maker of molecular diagnostic products, has filed to raise up to $86 million in an initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock. The company's first molecular diagnostic product is the Prosigna breast cancer assay, or Prosigna, which provides an assessment of a patient’s risk of recurrence for breast cancer and the intrinsic subtype of the patient’s tumor.[More...]

American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) said it has agreed to invest roughly HK$718.1 million (US$92.5 million) in a rights offering of PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited (PICC P&C), a company listed in Hong Kong.[More...]

Dividend announcement by companies on Monday include: National-Oilwell Varco, Umpqua Holdings, CSC, ENSCO and Aviv REIT.[More...]

Much has been made of the upside technical breakout experienced by the US Dollar last week, but when I dissect the components of USD strength, I found that much of the breakout was attributable to Yen weakness. In fact, the other components of USD are all testing support, which suggests that the euro and commodities are poised to rally here.[More...]

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) is riding high on the eve of showcasing the latest and greatest version of it XBOX game counsel.[More...]

FusionStorm Global Inc., a provider of information technology (IT) services, withdrew its plans for an initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock. The Woburn, Massachusetts-based company originally filed for a $175 million IPO in August 2011.[More...]

Following are the stocks that saw buying interest from insiders recently: ACADIA Pharmaceuticals, Griffon, Pitney Bowes, Opko Health, InnerWorkings and Lionbridge Technologies.[More...]

Backtesting trading systems on historical data is again becoming popular almost 30 years after it started being used by individual traders due to recent advances in web technology and server speed that allows its online implementation. If one knows what … Continue reading ?[More...]

As a trader, I’m drawn to key price or trendline inflection points that generate simple “IF/THEN” strategy planning events depending on how price interacts at a critical reference level.[More...]

The US economy slowed in April for the second time in as many months, “led by declines in production-related indicators, according to today’s release of the Chicago Fed National Activity Index, a weighted average of 85 economic data sets.[More...]

A number of stocks were upgraded and downgraded by Wall Street analysts on Monday.[More...]

U.S. stock-index futures pointed to a lower opening on the Wall Street, with Mini Dow Industrial Average futures down 16 points to 15,299. The Nasdaq futures fell 7 points to 3,015.75. Standard and Poor's 500 futures dropped 2.00 points to 1,661.[More...]

Campbell Soup Co. (NYSE: CPB) posted higher third-quarter earnings, topping market expectations, on double-digit growth in U.S. soup sales.[More...]