flickr / walmartcorporateThe solar power stocks and LED stocks have come back handily from their lows. Investors were severely burned here, and perhaps blinded by the light, no pun intended. Credit Suisse has issued…
courtesy GameStop Corp.The two transactions that will wrestle control of Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) from France’s Vivendi will transform Activision Blizzard into an independent company once more. The company will pay $13.60 a…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Friday, July 26, 2013. They include Baidu, Tesla Motors, Campbell Soup, OpenTable and Raytheon.
Jon OggInvestors get to see many analyst upgrades and Buy ratings from Wall Street firms, but they are often left in the dark about when it becomes time to sell. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many…
ThinkstockWhen oil services firm Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL) pleaded guilty to destroying evidence in an investigation of the causes of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon that killed 11 workers and spilled 5 million…
ThinkstockWeyerhaeuser Co. (NYSE: WY) reported second-quarter fiscal 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The wood products REIT posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.35 on revenues of $2.1 billion. In the same period…
ThinkstockWall Street’s first reaction to the Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) earnings release was that its extraordinary revenue increase of 22% was as astonishingly great as it was unexpected. The second was that Amazon continues…
courtesy of StarbucksStarbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) continues to surge, as its recent earnings report showed. At about the same time it released the good numbers, it announced a partnership with Danone to sell ready-to-eat parfait Greek…
ThinkstockThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reports that it is this simple: the cancellation of the automatic spending reductions specified by the Budget Control Act of 2011, or sequestration as it is commonly called, would…
courtesy of SamsungSamsung announced its earnings for the fiscal second quarter of the year. Revenue was up 9% to 57.46 trillion won quarter over previous quarter. Operating income also rose 9% to 5.93 trillion…
ZyngaZynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) saw its shares trade higher on Thursday ahead of earnings. The euphoria was tied to the Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) stock surge after earnings. The good news for Zynga is…
ThinkstockAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) shares have defied gravity, and maybe even defied logic, for so long that it is almost just too hard to criticize the company each time it reports earnings. Amazon has…
ThinkstockIf you were told that coffee lowers your risk of suicide, would you believe it? A new report in the Harvard Gazette talked up a July study and the end result is that coffee…
The days of Ben Bernanke as the chairman of the Federal Reserve are looking shorter and shorter ahead of his term expiration in 2014. President Obama has said that Bernanke is likely ready to…
courtesy of McDonald'sFor people who want to get into the food franchise business, and want to do so on a budget, the best choice is a deal with Papa John’s International Inc. (NASDAQ: PZZA),…