Posts for Ticker ‘TAL’

Another Look At The Fate Of The US Retail Industry

bear1AlixPartners, a turnaround firm, said at the beginning of the year that 10% to 26% of retailers were in financial distress and were in danger of filing for Chapter 11. It is worth considering how the researchers came up with that number, given that there are tens of thousands of retailers and hundreds of thousands of stores in America. Why wasn’t the number 9% or 27%? The answer is that the forecast is virtually useless, something like counting the number of poisonous snakes in an “Indian Jones” movie. Read More »

Posted on: March 10, 2009 – 4:26 am in Retail, , , , , ,

Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (AIG, BBW, CPST, LNG, CMC, DLTR, IMCL, PSUN, TDSC, TAL)

These are ten of the top analyst calls we are seeing this Monday morning:

  • American International Group (NYSE: AIG) Cut to Neutral from Buy at Goldman Sachs.
  • Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE: BBW) Cut to Neutral from Outperform at Credit Suisse.
  • Capstone Turbine (NASDAQ: CPST) Started as Buy at Merriman Curhan Ford.
  • Cheniere Energy (AMEX: LNG) Cut to Hold from Buy at Citigroup.
  • Commercial Metals (NYSE: CMC) Started as Buy at UBS.
  • Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR) Raised to Neutral from Underweight at JP Morgan.
  • ImClone Systems (NASDAQ: IMCL) Cut to Underweight at Morgan Stanley.
  • Pacific Sunwear (NASDAQ: PSUN) Cut to Sell from Buy at Citigroup.
  • 3D Systems (NASDAQ: TDSC) Raised to Neutral from Sell at Piper Jaffray.
  • TAL International (NYSE: TAL) Cut to Neutral from Outperform at Credit Suisse; but Raised to Outperform from Neutral at Baird.

Jon C. Ogg
May 12, 2008

Posted on: May 12, 2008 – 6:31 am in Analyst Calls, , , , , , , , , ,