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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (XOM, NKE, POT, TSLA, AMGN, RRC, AXE, ARMH, CE, LLY, HP, LLL, MHP, MAT, PFE, VLO, VRNG, RSH, PAY, REE, FFN)

Posted: January 31, 2012 at 4:06 pm

All three major indexes opened higher this morning, but the strength didn’t last as the Chicago PMI number failed to meet expectations and came in lower even than last month’s ...
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10 Major Earnings Previews For Tuesday (AMZN, ARMH, BIIB, BRCM, XOM, PFE, STX, UPS, X, VLO)

Posted: January 30, 2012 at 1:26 pm

Tuesday is going to be full of major earnings reports, two of which are DJIA components.  These are not the only major earnings, but ten we will be watching closely ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (GOOG, JCI, VLO, TSCO, HUM, INTC, IBM, BAC, AXP, GE, SLB, STI, INSM, TLB, SHLD, NCIT, CCOI)

Posted: January 20, 2012 at 4:08 pm

Equity markets opened mixed this morning, with the DJIA up slightly and the NASDAQ Composite and S&P 500 down slightly. That pattern held throughout the day as last night’s report ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BLK, EMC, GOOG, HUM, IBN, INTC, JDSU, JCI, NCIT, TNP, TXN, TSCO, VLO, WU, CCL, RCL)

Posted: January 20, 2012 at 8:22 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Friday morning. BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) Cut to Neutral at ...
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Refining Sector Woes Going From Challenging To Worse (TSO, VLO, MPC, WNR, CVI, XOM, CVX, COP, BP)

Posted: January 5, 2012 at 12:45 pm

One of the largest crude oil refiners in the US, Tesoro Corp. (NYSE: TSO), this morning lowered its earnings guidance for the fourth quarter, projecting a loss of -$0.55 to ...
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US Ethanol Subsidy is History (ADM, VLO, PEIX, GPRE, CZZ, RDS-A)

Posted: December 30, 2011 at 8:00 am

After 30 years of payments to farmers and blenders, the federal subsidy on corn-based ethanol expired when Congress adjourned last week without taking any action to renew the payments. A ...
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New Biofuels Fail to Meet Government-Mandated Quantities (CDXS, AMYR, GEVO, SZYM, KIOR, ADM, VLO, PEIX)

Posted: December 28, 2011 at 9:49 am

Back in the heady days of 2007, the U.S. Congress established mandates for the amount of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels to be used in the nation’s transportation fuel supply. ...
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Corn Crop Booms, Prices to Fall (ADM, VLO, HML, TSN, GIS, K)

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 11:38 am

Fears for a supply shortage of corn earlier this year led the world’s farmers to plant more of the crop on expectations of higher prices. Now that the crop is ...
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Pipeline Reverses Refiners Fortunes… An Apparent Overreaction (ENB, COP, VLO, MPC, TSO, WNR, CVI, XOM, CVX, BP, EPD, TRP, RDS-A)

Posted: November 17, 2011 at 9:10 am

The announcement from Enbridge Inc. (NYSE: ENB) that it would acquire the 50% stake in the Seaway pipeline system owned by ConocoPhillips Corp. (NYSE: COP) and reverse the pipeline's flow ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (DELL, DKS, RIMM, ATVI, TIBX, ZOOM, ANF, TGT, SPB, VLO, WNR, MPC, NG, PEIX, ASYS, UNIS)

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 4:08 pm

The markets opened lower this morning and not until mid-afternoon were equities able to put a mark above yesterday’s close. European stocks traded mixed all day, and that coupled with ...
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Is There Really Upside in Biofuels Stocks? (ADM, VLO, GPRE, PEIX, SZYM, GEVO, AMRS, CDXS, KIOR)

Posted: November 7, 2011 at 2:02 pm

Our series on expected upside in stock prices continues today with a look at the biofuels sector. What you are about to see are numbers that, for the most part, ...
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24/7 Wall St. Top Analyst Calls of the Week (AWK, NLY, ARMH, INTC, BAC, C, JPM, CAT, DAL, DNDN, DMND, HGSI, OPEN, SNDK, VLO, VICL, YRCW)

Posted: November 5, 2011 at 7:15 am

Each morning 24/7 Wall St. issues a list of some of the key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms.  We review these and other calls from ...
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Refiners Thriving on Crude Price Differential (WNR, TSO, VLO, MPC, BP, XOM, CVX, COP, MUR)

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 11:22 am

Two major oil refiners have reported third-quarter earnings since the market closed last night. Both posted better-than-expected earnings primarily due to sharply higher refining margins. Western Refining Corp. (NYSE: WNR) ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (AWK, C, JPM, CAT, DE, VLO, PNX, NOR, HGG, CECO, END, VG, AMRS, DMND, PG, SINO, OXGN, RTK, RNF)

Posted: November 2, 2011 at 4:08 pm

Stocks opened higher this morning and the gains held up pretty well all day. The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee report contained no big surprises, with interest rates continuing to ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AWK, BAC, BIP, CAT, C, CPO, DE, DMND, ECA, GPS, GOV, JOYG, JPM, OPEN, SSW, TXRH, USM, VLO)

Posted: November 2, 2011 at 8:24 am

These are some of Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK) added to Strong Buy List at ...
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