Stocks in the News

Carl Icahn is going after Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX). A 13D filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that Carl Icahn, via investment entities under him, has taken a stake of 9.98% in total in the troubled media download giant. Reed Hastings is about to be getting some...

Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) could have seen its shares crushed on a lockup expiration, but the stock is holding up marginally well when you consider the entire situation. The social networking giant had a lockup expiration of more than 200 million shares occur on Monday when the markets were...

Short sellers seem to have intuitively known as early as October 15 that Hurricane Sandy was going to be a real bruiser of a storm for the Eastern Seaboard. While that is not really true, Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE: GNRC) is surging on the potential new business from before, during, and after...

A number of major U.S. companies postponed quarterly earnings reports Monday as Hurricane Sandy bore down on the East Coast and financial markets were closed: Among the biggies waiting until the rain stops: Pfizer, Thomson Reuters, NRG Energy, and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.

Hurricane Sandy may have closed the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, and possibly longer, but trading will continue on the Big Board electronically, and that means there's still stocks worth watching: Sirius XM Radio, for example.

24/7 Wall St. has been monitoring news stations and exchange news ahead of the landfall for Hurricane Sandy on the eastern seaboard. As we have multiple locations, we will still be publishing some news as normal on Monday but the news is now official that trading on major exchanges will be closed....

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was initially trading down around $591 after the shares were released from trading after its earnings report and its guidance were deemed a disappointment. Where this gets interesting is that the Apple has recovered and shares are now flat around $609.54, although...