These are not all of the pre-market research calls during a busy earnings morning, but these are the top calls that 247WallSt.com is looking at: Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) downgraded to Underperform from Buy…
Audible Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBL) is finally being acquired. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) will pay some $11.50 per share of Audible in an all-cash buyout. Including Audible’s cash on hand, this transaction is valued at roughly…
P&G (PG) announced plans to separate its coffee business and create an independent company named The Folgers Coffee Company. The coffee business had sales of approximately $1.6 billion and operating income of about $350…
Markets in Asia were mixed at 3.10 AM New York time. The Nikkei was up 1.9% to 23.329. Sony (SNE) was up 3.6% to 5,220. Toyota (TM) was up 5.4% to 5,820. The Hang…
At least once a year, and probably more often, a big drug company makes a settlement or faces suits over not disclosing the bad effects of one or more of its products. Lilly’s anti-psychotic…
No one on Wall St. liked the Starbucks (SBUX) quarterly results and the shares moved down after they were announced. They still sit close to a 52-week low. The company reported revenues of $2.8…
For years the Playstation franchise carried Sony’s (SNE) earnings. The PS2 was one of the great selling consumer electronics products of all time. Sony stumbled with the launch of the PS3. Microsoft’s (MSFT) Xbox…
Losses from securities linked to subprime mortgages may exceed $265 billion as regional U.S. banks, credit unions and overseas financial institutions write down the value of their holdings, according to Standard & Poor’s writes…
Wall St. has gone through the looking glass into Wonderland with Alice. The world is upside down now. Awful results at firms like E*Trade (ETFC) and Countrywide (CFC) can make shares rally. Outstanding results…
Wall St. thought things would be bad when MBIA (MBI) reported earnings, but they were worse. The largest bond insurer posted a loss of $2.3 billion, or $18.61 a share, compared with profit of…
According to Reuters, Amazon’s (AMZN) financial results show that its profit margins were squeezed in the last quarter. Reuters writes that Starbucks (SBUX) will close 100 stores and say 2008 could bring a recession.…
After the close of trading on Thursday, the beloved Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will report earnings for Q4-2007. This is the last of the internet giants to report earnings. Interestingly enough, all of other pure-play…
Intuitive Surgical Inc. (NASDAQ: ISRG) is set to report earnings after the close on Thursday. Shares closed at $235.00 Wednesday, down from a 52-week high of $359.59 and down from a December 31 close…
Accuray Inc. (NASDAQ: ARAY) is being punished in after-hours trading. The company posted earnings at $0.04 EPS on revenues of $52 million. The problem is that First Call was at $0.09 EPS on $58.2…
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is seeing shares trade slightly lower in after-hours trading after earnings. The coffee inflating retailer posted earnings of $0.28 EPS on revenues of $2.8 Billion, yet First Call estimates were $0.27…