Quantcast

Monthly Archives: March 2011

BofA: Beyond the Dividend (BAC, JPM, WFC, STT, BK)

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 1:32 pm

Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is performing rather well when you consider that the bank's dividend is not likely to rise as fast as some of the more healthy ...
Read Full Story »

Pegging HCA IPO Pricing (HCA, BAC)

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 1:01 pm

HCA Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HCA) is coming public this week in what is expected to be roughly a $3.5 billion IPO.  The sale is for about 124 million shares in ...
Read Full Story »

Mergers Meet Valuation Concerns in Exchanges (NYX, NDAQ, ICE, CBOE, CME)

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 12:01 pm

The recently announced merger between the NYSE Euronext, Inc. (NYSE: NYX) and Deutsche Boerse has created a conundrum in the sector of exchanges.  Now there is a need to consolidate, ...
Read Full Story »

Sprint, T-Mobile Could Combine (S, DTEGY, T, VZ, AAPL, GOOG)

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 11:02 am

A combination of Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) and the T-Mobile USA bit of Deutsche Telekom AG (OTC: DTEGY) would bring together some 67 million subscribers now currently divided almost ...
Read Full Story »

The Daily Dividend: 10% Dividend Yields From Mortgage REITs (NLY, CIM, ANH, MFA)

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 11:01 am

24/7 Wall Street is constantly on the lookout for dividend gains for investors.  While this is not due to any breaking news, there was a secondary offering this morning that ...
Read Full Story »

The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: March 8 Coal Drop Hits Massey

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 10:11 am

Bad press about Chevron (NYSE: CVX) rose on news that a federal judge would delay an $18 billion damage judgement made in Ecuador. Rite Aide was hit by poor press ...
Read Full Story »

Economic Optimism Down

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 9:36 am

Economic optimism tailed off in February. Oil prices are at least partly to gain, although the data is from a month ago. It is not hard to guess that the ...
Read Full Story »

The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (3/7/2011) McDonald’s Same Store Sales & Subway Battle

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 8:50 am

Twitter  has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have ...
Read Full Story »

McDonald’s: Value Meets Sales Growth (MCD)

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 8:50 am

McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is trading lower this morning after its global same-store sales rose by +3.9% in February.  Europe led the growth with a gain of +5.1%; Asia-Pacific, Middle-East ...
Read Full Story »

Top Active Trader Alert Stocks (ATRN, NFLX, URBN)

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 8:49 am

Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning.  We are tracking news and moves in shares of Atrinsic, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATRN), Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), and Urban ...
Read Full Story »

Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ANF, ALTR, AIG, APA, CIEN, EXPE, LAZ, LDK, MDC, NSM, NVDA, QCOM, URBN, VRTX)

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 8:12 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) Raised to Buy at ...
Read Full Story »

Today’s Best Market Rumors (3.8.2011) Goodbye Smith Barney, Icahn M&A

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 8:10 am

Updated throughout the day Carl Icahn may sell Federal-Mogul (Reuters) Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) will kill its Smith Barney brand (WSJ) Douglas A. McIntyre   ...
Read Full Story »

Ten Companies Where Gas Prices Will Cause The Most Layoffs

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 6:32 am

"If gasoline tops $4.00 per gallon in the coming weeks, consumers may be forced to make significant changes to their spending habits. At this stage of the recovery, that could ...
Read Full Story »

Subway Passes McDonald’s In Global Store Count

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 6:08 am

Subway now has more outlets than McDonald's (NYSE: MCD), according to the sandwich shop chain. Subway had 33,749 restaurants across the world at the end of 2010, it claims. McDonald's had ...
Read Full Story »

Sovereign Debt Downgrades Open IMF Door

Posted: March 8, 2011 at 5:42 am

Downgrades, sovereign interest rates, contagion, defaults, and loan guarantees. These terms  swirl around Europe each time the debt of a nation is cut by a rating agency as Greece's was ...
Read Full Story »