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Fearing New Gulf of Mexico Oil Leak: Sheen Warning For Transocean (RIG, BP, XOM, CVX)

Posted: September 27, 2011 at 4:19 pm

Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) is likely going to be in the local nightly news reports all throughout the states in the Gulf of Mexico, whether it is justified or not.  The ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ARO, AGU, AGN, AIG, CI, DTV, DISH, DWA, GLGL, MMI, RIMM, RVBD, MOBI, S, RIG, VMW, DIS)

Posted: August 16, 2011 at 8:38 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Aeropostale, Inc. (NYSE: ARO) Raised to Hold at Jefferies. Agrium ...
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Transocean’s Norwegian Buyout Highlights Value in Drillers (RIG, BP, NOV, PDS, SDRL, DVR, HERO, VTG, PKD, PDC)

Posted: August 15, 2011 at 11:03 am

Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) must think that its dispute with BP plc (NYSE: BP) over responsibility for the explosion of its Deepwater Horizon platform in April 2010 is either going ...
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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)

Posted: August 8, 2011 at 12:32 pm

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)

Posted: July 23, 2011 at 9:30 am

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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Transocean Accounting Official Resigns (RIG, BP)

Posted: July 20, 2011 at 3:04 pm

Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG) was all over the news at this time last year. It was a Transocean drilling rig that exploded in the US Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AEG, AA, AGU, RDEA, CTL, CERN, COP, CNX, DMND, FCX, GOOG, IBN, JPM, NEM, BTU, SWC, STM, RIG, VICL)

Posted: July 15, 2011 at 8:33 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. AEGON N.V. (NYSE: AEG) maintained "Buy" but removed from Conviction ...
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American Companies Burned Worst By The Media

Posted: June 14, 2011 at 4:43 am

One school of thought about negative publicity is that its impact dissipates over time. It is hard to disprove that theory, especially in the case of large companies.  And sometimes ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (CAR, COO, GE, MPEL, TAP, NOK, RJET, RIMM, SRE, SINA, SPLS, SRCL, RIG)

Posted: June 13, 2011 at 8:29 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NYSE: CAR) Reiterated Strong Buy at ...
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Whale Watching Stocks: Paulson, Soros, Berkowitz, Icahn, Einhorn (GLD, HPQ, RIG, BAC, JPM, WFC, C, AAPL, BBY, WMT, MA, AIG, BAM, CSCO, SHLD, GGP, GE, DYN, AMGN, SUG, CVS, GM)

Posted: May 16, 2011 at 6:42 pm

We have already seen (some) of the position changes of Warren Buffett, but the old guy wouldn't share many 'confidential positions' so we are whale watching in other ponds.  We wanted ...
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Top Earnings Previews for Wednesday (AGN, AOL, GRMN, GG, JDSU, MET, NWS-A, PCG, TSLA, TWX, RIG, VG, WFMI)

Posted: May 3, 2011 at 3:56 pm

This week marks the beginning of the end of corporate earnings season for the first quarter of 2011.  Many off-calendar quarters will be seen starting next week or the week ...
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Schlumberger Earnings, Revenues Fall Short; BP Sues Halliburton (SLB, WFT, HAL, BHI, BP, RIG, CAM)

Posted: April 21, 2011 at 9:20 am

Bad weather in North America and Australia, political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa, and a slow return to drilling in the US Gulf of Mexico have all ...
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Media Digest (4/21/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 21, 2011 at 4:08 am

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) earnings surpassed expectations and the company said iPad 2 units were backlogged (Reuters) BP plc (NYSE: BP) sued Transocean (NYSE: RIG) for $40 to cover costs related ...
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The 24/7 Wall St./Flame Index: April 20 Companies With The Worst News

Posted: April 20, 2011 at 10:10 am

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) took a big hit in the news as shareholders sued over Sokol trades in Lubrizol. American Electric Power and NRG both pulled bad press over ...
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Media Digest (4/6/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 6, 2011 at 3:54 am

The SEC has a plan to lower market volatility (Reuters) A re-balancing of the Nasdaq 100 cuts Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) influence on the index (Reuters) John Chambers, the head of ...
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