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Next Week’s Must See Earnings (YUM, STZ, COST, MON, MAR, PEP, AA, MU)

Posted: October 1, 2010 at 1:29 pm

Next week will mark the unofficial start of earnings season.  While it will take another week or two for earnings to get into full swing, there are many key companies ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AET, AUO, COWN, MAR, MDT, MSFT, NUS, SNDK, WY, YHOO)

Posted: July 12, 2010 at 8:28 am

These are some of this Monday's top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street firms: Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) Cut to Neutral at UBS. AU Optronics ...
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The Oldest Public Company CEOs

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 10:03 pm

The official retirement age for executives at many large U.S. corporations has  been 65 for several decades - unless the executive also happens to be the founder. Forty years ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ACI, BRCD, EBAY, GENZ, MAR, MIR, NTES, SNDA, GAME, SBUX, VOD)

Posted: March 25, 2010 at 7:31 am

These are the some of the top research call summaries for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street analyst calls this Thursday morning: Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) Started ...
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The Hardest Working Brands for 2009: The Year Of The Dog

Posted: March 17, 2010 at 3:46 pm

A look at the "hardest working" major brands for 2009 shows that a number of them belong to companies which have done poorly and, in at least one case, may ...
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Women’s Group Lauds Reverse Discrimination At Major Companies

Posted: February 11, 2010 at 9:38 am

Reverse discrimination is alive and well among large corporations which offer access to women's businesses that results in a high volume of commerce for female-controlled firms. The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council "Top Corporations" program ...
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Short Sellers Move Back Into Financial Shares, Ignore Tech: Flee Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG) And Amazon (AMZN)

Posted: December 9, 2009 at 6:52 pm

Short sellers sharply increased their gamble that financial stocks would fall based on short selling data from NYSE and Nasdaq on the last day of November. Shorts pushed into Citigroup ...
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Can Hyatt IPO Beat Current IPO Doldrums? (H, HOT, MAR)

Posted: November 2, 2009 at 12:45 pm

Late Friday night, after a really poor market day, Hyatt Hotels issued an amended S-1 for its planned initial public offering.  Because of last week's market volatility, we are getting ...
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The 100 Hardest Working Brands In The World

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 5:06 pm

There are a number of ways to rank brand values. One of the most important is the level at which a brand contributes to the market value of a public ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (AKS, BMY, CREE, JPM, LRCX, MAR, RIMM, SVNT, SE, VIA)

Posted: October 9, 2009 at 7:43 am

These are this Friday morning’s top Wall Street analyst upgrades and positive research calls: AK Steel (AKS) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank. Bristol-Myers (BMY) Started as Outperform at Wells ...
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Media Digest (10/9/2009) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 9, 2009 at 3:54 am

Reuters:   Chinese investors are holding a large amount of gold. Reuters:   Bernanke sees tighter policies as the economy improves. Reuters:   The Congressional Oversight Panel says that the US plan to ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (AET, AMZN, AMX, BJ, CAL, ERTS, FO, FPIC, HUM, MAR, HOT)

Posted: September 16, 2009 at 8:22 am

These are this Wednesday morning's top analyst upgrades and positive research calls that we have seen from Wall Street: Aetna (AET) Raised to Neutral at Goldman Sachs. Amazon.com (AMZN) Raised ...
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The 100 Most Valuable Brands Of 2009?

Posted: September 13, 2009 at 9:01 pm

Several consulting firms post annual figures for the world's most valuable brands. The two best known are probably the Interbrand and BrandZ surveys. They are notably different, up until now ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BBY, CPLA, GS, HGSI, MAR, SNDK, SGMS)

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 6:50 am

These are the top pre-market upgrades and downgrades seen early this Monday morning ahead of the earnings season rush: Best Buy (BBY) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer. Capella Education (CPLA) ...
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Media Digest 6/17/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 18, 2009 at 3:07 am

Reuters:   Obama proposed sweeping reform for financial industry. Reuters:    A number of large banks repaid TARP. (JPM)(GS)(BBT)(COP)(STT)(AXP)(USB) Reuters:   Consumer prices show inflation is in check. Reuters:   China could still be ...
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