Short-sellers walked away from Citigroup (NYSE: C),dropping their position by 20% in the period that ended May 15. They could not have anticipated that the Treasury would sell a huge amount ... Read Full Story »
These are the top day trader and active trader alerts seen in action this morning. We have details in the links over at VSInvestor.com with more details and analysis on ... Read Full Story »
These are this Tuesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) Cut to Neutral at UBS. A123 Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: AONE) ... Read Full Story »
These are this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Ciena Corp. (NASDAQ: CIEN) Started as Buy at Auriga. DryShips (NASDAQ: DRYS) Raised to ... Read Full Story »
John Paulson is rather notorious, and wealthy, for how much he picked up by shorting financial stocks on the way down. But the financial world found out in August that ... Read Full Story »
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve reported that 9 out of 10 bank holding companies that were required to raise additional capital to bolster their balance sheets have successfully done so. The ... Read Full Story »
These are Thursday's top ten analyst research summary upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street brokerage firms: AstraZeneca (AZN) Cut to Hold at Citigroup. Brandywine Realty (BDN) Cut to Neutral ... Read Full Story »
These are this morning's top day trader alert stocks and actively traded stock movers. We have more detailed price and volume analysis with links to each over at VSInvestor.com: GSI ... Read Full Story »
John Paulson has been well known as a hedge fund manager because of the profits he made from short selling many of the key financial stocks. Yet his new filing ... Read Full Story »
Short sellers are will to bet, at least for now, that the worst of the banking earning crisis is over. Short interest in a number of large financial companies fell ... Read Full Story »
Short sellers upped their investments in stocks of the most prominent financial firms. Short interest in Bank of America (BAC), AIG (AIG), Wells Fargo (WFC), and Freddie Mac (FRE) all ... Read Full Story »
The Wall Street Journal, in a bit of investigative reporting, found that the CEOs of companies that have received federal bailout funds are still having fun using their firms' private ... Read Full Story »
Standard & Poor's may still have at least some relevance in its debt ratings. This morning we saw a wave of downgrades at banks by the debt ratings agency on ... Read Full Story »
These are the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls we have seen from Wall Street firms this Wednesday morning: Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) Started as Outperform at ... Read Full Story »
Finally, the stress tests are out for the US banking and financial institutions. Of the banks, 10 of 19 banks need a combined $74 billion of equity.The good news is ... Read Full Story »