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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (DELL, EW, AKS, STLD, BRCM, GMCR, EDMC, NDAQ, QCOM, BZH, BSX, BCO, DO, LEA, MRK, TTWO, VIAB, ZNGA, MNOV, RGDX, BIOS, URG)

All three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning, and spent the rest of the day bouncing around the neutral line. The reports from retailers on same-store sales in ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (CSCO, DO, LVS, LULU, PM, SLB, CIEN, COST, SFD, LAYN, KFY, DMAN, AFFY, DANG, IVC, PNCL, TSLA)

Stocks opened lower this morning and trailed mostly lower throughout the day. Today’s wholesale inventory reported showed a gain of 1.6% and the initial jobless claims were substantially lower than ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (CELL, CSCO, DECK, DO, FTE, HTS, HWAY, HERO, LVS, LULU, MPEL, NRG, PM, SLB, SAH, STFC, VE, VRSN, WFT, YUM)

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Brightpoint Inc. (NASDAQ: CELL) Reiterate as Buy with a $14 ...
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S&P Rates Oil & Gas Stocks Stable (XOM, CVX, COP, APA, CHK, SLB, HAL, BHI, NE, RIG, DO, VLO, TSO, MPC)

As the markets swoon today from Friday night's downgrade of US debt, Standard & Poor's is making other changes to its debt ratings. One sector that is unchanged is oil ...
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Stunning: Petrobras Spending $224.7 Billion on Offshore Oil (PBR, NE, DO, RIG, HAL, BHI, SLB)

Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro SA (NYSE: PBR), commonly called Petrobras, has approved a plan it announced last September to spend $224.7 billion developing an estimated 5 billion barrels of reserves. The ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BCS, BIIB, BSX, COG, DO, FFIV, FRX, FFN, JDSU, PHG, RL, UHS)

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS) Cut to Neutral at HSBC. Biogen ...
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Natural Gas Prices Expected to Rise, But Value Is Not in the Commodity (UNG, FCG, SGY, COG, HK, SWN, SD, XOP, WTI, EQT, PXJ, BHI, NBR, HAL, FTI, DO)

Late Wednesday night, natural gas prices inexplicably dropped by about 8% on the NYMEX, well after the exchange had closed for the day. It took only a few seconds for ...
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US Gulf of Mexico Opens for More Deepwater Drilling (NBL, ESV, HLX, NE, DO, RIG, CVX)

Two weeks ago, Federal Judge Martin Feldman told the Obama administration to act within 30 days on a number of drilling permits for the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The Bureau ...
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Offshore Drilling May Not Be as Strong as Expected (ESV, PDE, RIG, BP, WOPEY, DO, PBR)

Today's announcement of a definitive merger agreement between Ensco plc (NYSE: ESV) and Pride International Inc. (NYSE: PDE) is the first major deal among offshore drillers since the Macondo well ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ARO, APC, DO, MMM, FDX, SOLR, IPG, JBHT, KLIC, LIZ, MON, MWW, JWN, NSC, PM, RAX, UPS)

These are some of this Friday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Aeropostale, Inc. (NYSE: ARO) Cut to Underperform at Wells Fargo. Anadarko Petroleum ...
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2010′s Worst-Performing Companies On the S&P 500

Meet the Nine Worst Performers Of The S&P 500, the broadly followed stock market index, that analysts expect will improve next year.  The reasons why they are in the Wall Street ...
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Oil Field Services Firms’ Earnings are Good Enough (DO, NE, HAL, WFT, SLB, RIG)

How investors view the oil field services business depends a lot on whether a company is heavily involved in offshore drilling. Onshore drillers have seen share prices rise steadily as ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ABB, BHI, BRCM, CREE, CSX, CVS, DO, INTC, NE, NSC, NVDA, STI, TLAB, RIG)

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning: ABB Ltd. (NYSE: ABB) Raised to Buy at ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ALU, ANN, ATHN, ADSK, BHP, BRCM, CTXS, DO, GHL, MRVL, ERIC)

These are this Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls during the pre-market hours: Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs. Ann ...
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Goldman Sachs Mixes Calls in Oil and Utilities (RIG, PTEN, HAL, OIS, NBR, DO, FTI, WR, NRG, NVE)

Goldman Sachs has made several key upgrades and downgrades this morning in the utility sector and in the oil patch.  While the utility sector was raised to attractive, some of ...
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