The Starmine "smart analysts" are projecting that Bank of America Corp (BAC.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) will beat broader estimates by a fairly small margin.
Holdings in Novagold Resources (NG.TO: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) dropped to 3.5 million shares from 12.9 million.
Investors will get a more detailed read of corporate America's economic outlook over the month, as big companies from Alcoa Inc (AA.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) to General Electric Co (GE.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) to JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) report on their first-quarter results.
He also liquidated a 5 million share stake in the iShares Gold Trust (IAU.P: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), the filings showed.
The two-year-old start-up rebuffed a $6 billion advance from Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) late last year, according to media reports.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - SAP AG (SAPG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) has been ordered to pay Oracle Corp (ORCL.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) $1.3 billion for stealing files in Silicon Valley's priciest legal controversy -- and San Francisco's top federal prosecutor may raise the stakes even more.
The news will have the stocks buzzing, making them Forbes.com's Stocks To Watch today.
In the background, stock cars buzzed around the racetrack, practicing for Sunday's 500-mile Nascar Sprint Cup race.
On the strength of that deal, Shutterfly's stock is buzzing.
America Online, with its lofty stock and Internet buzz may have seemed to hold the upper hand 19 months ago.
In addition to Hewlett-Packard, the index includes a surprising number of Internet buzz stocks like eBay, where Meg Whitman is chief executive; Exodus Communications (Ellen M. Hancock); and iVillage (Candice Carpenter).
