Key earnings reports continue through the end of the month.  Below we highlight some of the more significant reports expected over the next several days.  Historically GOOG and ISRG are some of the more volatile names, and will likely create trading opportunities for those interested ... Read more

Williams Sonoma (WSM) announces Q4 results and year end. I must be fixated on retailers lately or are they just he canary in the coal mine. Anyway the numbers are difficult to terrible. They announce a few initiatives to improve. With a lot of jargon and buzzwords they talk about inventory control a ... Read more

Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) issued a mid-quarter update after the close of trading today.  What is interesting is that things might not actually turn out to be just quite as bad as the company originally pictured.  The news is still somewhat rather far away from being good news, but ... Read more

For quite some time now the focus has been on the credit crunch, and that focus has been amplifying considerably in the last few months as the collapsing of major banks and government bailout of those that survived seems to have crunch credit so densely that it might cause a black hole to open up ... Read more

Introduction We find ourselves in the midst of an economic crisis. Bears abound, growling about a multitude of problems including stagflation, financial failures, rising commodity prices, and capitulation to name a few. These issues are no picnic in the park, but have become so overwhelmin ... Read more