ThinkstockAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has become one of the greatest cloud providers for businesses out there, and now Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ: MSFT) is trying ever harder to catch up. This space is very crowded,…
Dividend stocks have come under fire of late as investors have started paring down their equity investments, which may have been treated like bonds. The risk of rising interest rates may be just too…
ThinkstockSterne Agee has been touting Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) lately with big potential upside for investors. The analyst team includes Alex Kurtz and Amelia Harris, who are talking up the opportunity ahead after meeting…
By Steve Jurvetson CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAB) said this morning that the two had signed a multiyear, exclusive deal that will offer Viacom programming on Amazon’s…
ThinkstockThe Labor Department’s Employment Situation report is due out this Friday. The investing community will get to find out whether they should have sold in May and gone away. This will be the last…
ThinkstockIt is a new month and we have yet another investment outlook from the de facto bond king Bill Gross of PIMCO. In this monthly appearance, “Wounded Heart” refers to capitalism’s overall quest for…
ThinkstockHome prices rose 12.1% in April, compared with the same month a year ago, the largest monthly increase since February 2006, according to research firm CoreLogic Inc. (NYSE: CLGX). The firm had previously forecast…
Courtesy Maersk LineThe U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported this morning that the U.S. trade deficit for April totaled $40.3 billion, up from $37.1 billion in March. U.S. exports rose…
ThinkstockChina’s Lenovo Group has been looking for a way into the smartphone market at least since early this year, when the company was reported to be eyeing Research In Motion, now known as BlackBerry…
ThinkstockThe retail research team at Jefferies feels that despite the income and payroll tax changes that began in January, U.S. households may be in a much better position to weather the tax than some thought…
ThinkstockOppenheimer is of the opinion that some underperforming technology companies could attract even more activist investors attention. Dan Loeb is accomplishing things at Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE), as is Carl Icahn (maybe) with his…
ThinkstockGannett Co. Inc. (NYSE: GCI) often is considered to be one of the down-and-out old-media players. So when you see an analyst upgrade the stock, it tends to stand out from your normal analyst…
ThinkstockCustomer relationship management firm Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) has agreed to acquire cloud-based marketing firm ExactTarget Inc. (NYSE: ET) in a deal worth $2.5 billion. Salesforce.com will immediately begin a tender offer for all…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Tuesday, June 4, 2013. They include FedEx, GE, Ulta Salon and Walmart.
ThinkstockDollar General Corp. (NYSE: DG) reported first-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The discount retailer posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.71 on revenues of $4.23 billion. In the same…