Of the twelve Wall Street analysts covering global crop processor and biofuel producer Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), 10 say Buy, 2 say Hold and none say Sell. Such enthusiasm, while heartening, is usually a contrarian indicator implying the stock may take a hit on even the slightest of missteps.Complete Story »
Hickey and Walters (Bespoke) submit: As shown in the first chart below, the S&P 500 is currently trading in oversold territory, just as it did during the February and August corrections of this year.Complete Story »
IndexUniversesubmits: Friday Barclays Global Investors' iShares family launched eight international exchange-traded funds on two different exchanges.Complete Story »
After last month's revelation that Eli Lilly's (LLY)upcoming anti-clotting drug Prasugrel saved more patients from heart attacks and strokes -- but led to an increased risk of fatal bleeding -- Barron'shas a hard time seeing much upside for the stock.Complete Story »
Accrued Interestsubmits: I think the media is misunderstanding Fed Governor Randall Kroszner. His speech delivered Fridayat the Conference on Competitive Markets and Effective Regulation hasbeen interpreted as favoring no more cuts. The money quote: Complete Story »
Amit Chokshisubmits:Tradingaction in Hanesbrands, Inc. ("HBI" or the "Company") over the past fewweeks provides a very transparent view of just how severely certainstocks can be manipulated on options expiration day. As a long-terminvestor these occurences are insignificant, but it's important foreven long-term investors to understand the level of intense marketmanipulation that can occur by deep-pocket institutions and not to viewany of these "random" events as anything more than myopic greed.Complete Story »
David Merkelsubmits: Kinda weird, and it makes you wonder, but on the WSJ main page,I could not find a link to Barron?s. I know I?ve seen a link toBarron?s in the past there; I have used it, which is why I noticed itsabsence todayComplete Story »
Roger Nusbaumsubmits: Either they were keeping it a secret or I just missed it, but PowerShares just issued a high yield bond ETF under ticker PHB.Complete Story »
Felix Salmonsubmits: A friend of mine is shopping for a mortgage right now, and I just had a very frustrating conversation with her mortgage broker. What I'd like to do is be able to choose between a fixed-rate mortgage and an adjustable-rate mortgage. If I take the adjustable-rate mortgage, I expect to pay a lower interest rate in return for taking on interest-rate risk.Complete Story »
Felix Salmonsubmits: Peter Eavis, who started the Fannie Mae ball rollingon Wednesday, moves the story furthernow with this rather startling and scary datapoint:Complete Story »
Harry Domash, in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, recommended Seeking Alpha in his articleabout how to get up to speed on China stocks available to US investors, along with China Analyst, China Tech News, Finance Asiaand The China Blog. He writes:Complete Story »
Abbi Adestsubmits:SuccessFactor (SFSF), a provider of on-demand performance and talent management software, is expected to issue an IPO this week. The company, based in San Mateo, CA, hosts the software on third-party servers where it is accessible to customers through the Internet.Complete Story »
IndexUniversesubmits: It's boom times, baby. MSCI's (MXB) initial public offeringsoared 45% Thursday, as index lovers everywhere bid up the price of shares.Complete Story »
