Another Revision Doesn’t Make It Easier To Like Juniper
I thought that 2013 could be the year where long-suffering stocks like Ciena (Nasdaq:CIEN) and Juniper (NYSE:JNPR) earned a little love from the Street. So far that hasn’t been the case, though Cisco (Nasdaq:CSCO) and Ericsson (Nasdaq:ERIC) have shown some signs of life.Discount Brokers Comparison: Your one-stop shop for finding the perfect broker for your [...]
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Receives Support for Advanced Natural Gas Fuel System and Engine Development
Tuesday April 23, 2013, 11:22am PDT Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: QTWW) announced that they have been recommended for a $1 million grant award to pursue its Advanced Natural Gas Engine Research and Development for Class 3 through Class 7 Applications. As quoted in the press release: The grant will fund the development and validation of [...]
Halliburton Has Gotten Interesting Again
Slipping oil prices have definitely taken the steam out of what had been a strong seasonal move in many oil service and equipment stocks. Even so, many in the oil and gas industry seem to think that rig counts have bottomed and that exploration and production activity will start picking up again in 2013 barring [...]
April 19 2013 Market Summary
The U.S. markets moved sharply lower this week led by small-cap and technology stocks, with large caps performing considerably better on the whole. With the Conference Board’s index of leading indicators falling 0.1% in March, investors have begun to question just how much the sequestration will affect the economic recovery. Consumer confidence, housing permits and [...]
Nokia Still Straddling Fault Lines
Nokia Still Straddling Fault Linesby Stephen D. Simpson, CFARoughly 18 months into his tenure as the CEO of Nokia (NYSE:NOK), Stephen Elop hasn’t yet proven much of anything about the future of this former mobile device leader. The company has done a better-than-expected job of cutting costs and its Nokia Siemens Networks joint venture is [...]
Fairway Group Gets The Green
Grocery store chain Fairway Group (Nasdaq:FWM) sold 16.7 million shares at $13 in its IPO debut April 16. In its first day of trading shares gained 33.5%. Year-to-date it’s the second best performing IPO next to ExOne (Nasdaq:XONE), which gained 47.3% in its coming out party. The question for those who weren’t able to pick [...]
Apple shares hit lowest level since 2011
Shares of Apple Inc. hit their lowest level in more than a year Wednesday after one of the company’s parts suppliers hinted there will be a slowdown in the number of iPad and iPhones they are able to produce. The stock is down $23, or more than five per cent, to just under $404 in [...]
Joh. A Benckiser Looks To Corner The Coffee Market
D.E. Master Blenders 1753 (OTC:DEMBF), the former Sara Lee spinoff is going private after less than a year. Joh. A Benckiser Sarl (JAB) is paying a huge price for the European coffee maker. What does this mean for the rest of the world’s coffee manufacturers? Is Green Mountain next? I’ll have a look at some [...]