Short Ideas

Perhaps comments from CEO Marius Kloppers in 2011 that his company, BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP), would spend $80 billion to develop and invest in its own mines and oil and gas fields made investors think the world's largest mining company was taking a breather from large-scale mergers and acquisitions...

Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watch List for Monday February 13, 2012. Pullback plays: ProShares Ultra QQQ (NYSE: QQQ) and the ProShares UltraShort S&P500 (NYSE: SDS). The Market Vectors Coal ETF (NYSE: KOL) is looking a tad vulnerable. The iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF (Nasdaq: IBB)...

Japanese companies had a rough 2011, following last spring's earthquake and nuclear crisis. But the stocks listed here have started off the year on a good footing, rising between 10% and 35% year to date. They represent a cross-section of Japan's manufacturing sector, all are traded on U.S....

Analysts expect to see double-digit per-share earnings growth from Agilent Technologies (NYSE: A), Apache (NYSE: APA), CBS (NYSE: CBS), Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA), DirecTV (NASDAQ: DTV) and Marriot International (NYSE: MAR) when they report quarterly results this week. Other prominent reports on the...

Below are highlights from Benzinga's daily coverage of microcap securities making big moves: Tandy Brands Accessories I Shares of Tandy Brands Accessories (NASDAQ: TBAC), the Dallas, TX designer and marketer of mens, womens, and childrens accessories, rose 75% Friday on 21 times the average...

On CNBC's Fast Money, Steve Grasso said that he would buy Nuance Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) on Monday. Nuance Communications Inc. (NUAN) dropped 12.99%, and it closed at $26.50. Patty Edwards likes Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF), and she wants to buy it on Monday. Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) dropped...

Here we are nearly two months into 2012 and we're still talking about Greece. Stalled negotiations regarding a bailout package for the "G" in oft-used and notorious PIIGS acronym led to some panic selling at the open today. The totals weren't as bad at the close as they were in the morning, but...

The following are the M&A deals, rumors and chatter circulating on Wall Street for Friday February 10, 2012: Actuant Acquires Jeyco Pty The Deal: Actuant (NYSE: ATU) announced Friday that it has acquired Jeyco Pty Ltd (“Jeyco”). Headquartered near Perth, Australia, Jeyco designs and provides...

It's no secret that iShares, the world's largest ETF issuer, has been issuing new funds at warp speed this year. And it's no secret that some of those funds look a lot like other ETFs that have been around a while. What is interesting about some of the recently introduced iShares ETFs isn't so...

Emerging markets are selling at relatively cheap valuations, it seems to me, and the low valuations of many of the stocks and indexes seem more about fear than about the downside revisions that are happening in GDP. Many emerging markets indexes and ETFs are selling at about 10 times earnings,...