These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Cardinal Health Inc. (NYSE: CAH) Raised to Buy with $52 target at Argus. Clorox…
Updated throughout the day Zynga may raise money which would value the social game company at $7 billion (WSJ) BaFin, a German regulator, is involved in the restructuring of WestLB (Reuters) JP Morgan (NYSE:…
GE (NYSE: GE) has decided to maintain its position as the world’s largest conglomerate. It is old news that the company has been attacked for this. Recent evaluations of the one-decade tenure of CEO…
Social game network Zynga is about to be valued at $7 billion as it raises more capital. Groupon was recently valued at $6 billion, and Facebook at $50 billion. These businesses will continue to…
China’s trade surplus was $6.45 billion in January. Some economists believe that China’s import rise were partly due to higher prices that the People’s Republic must pay for commodities. Another part of the increase…
The debate over the fate of Europe’s poorer nations continues to return to Greece. It has become the canary in the coal mine as capital markets investors and other EU nations contemplate the region’s…
The size of the Japanese economy dropped in the fourth quarter of last year, but exports may aid a rebound. (Reuters) The Obama budget will cut $1.1 trillion in costs over 10 years. (Reuters)…
We have many big events to watch for in the coming week at American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ), Berkshire…
Pandora Media, Inc. will likely soon be a public company. The leader in internet radio filed its preliminary IPO paperwork on Friday evening. Terms such as a share count and a price range were…
S&P 500 WEEK: BOTTOM 10 (04FEB-10 FEB) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 10Feb11 Close Price 04Feb11 Market Cap($Mil) Akamai Technologies Inc AKAM -14.9 40.75 47.88 7430.4 Cisco Systems Inc CSCO -14.2 18.92…
Agribusiness giant Syngenta AG (NYSE: SYT) has gotten approval from the US Department of Agriculture to grow a strain of corn that has been genetically modified to make it cheaper and more energy-efficient to…
China will create a new body to review all significant foreign investments made in companies based in the People’s Republic. “Foreign investments in military, agriculture, energy and resources, key infrastructure, transport systems, key technology…
S&P 500 WEEK TOP 10 (04 FEB -10 FEB) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 10Feb11 Close Price 04Feb11 Market Cap($Mil) Big Lots Inc BIG 20.1 40.77 33.95 3076.8 NYSE Euronext NYX 15.8…
Wikimedia Commons (Adina Firestone)If any activist investor is able to rattle a public company, it is Carl Icahn. He just disclosed that he owns 9% of Clorox Corporation (NYSE: CLX) totaling 12.5 million…
A tender offer for Dynegy Inc. (NYSE: DYN) from an affiliate of Icahn Enterprise L.P. (NYSE: IEP) was supposed to have closed two days ago. Unfortunately, only 4.4% of Dynegy shares had been offered,…