ThinkstockMost investors are familiar with the acronym GARP, which stands for growth at a reasonable price. UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) has taken that category one step further and added a Q for quality. The…
Jon OggThese are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Access Midstream Partners L.P. (NYSE: ACMP) reiterated Outperform but on Focus List at Credit Suisse.…
ThinkstockSodaStream International Ltd. (NASDAQ: SODA) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2012 results before markets opened this morning. The home beverage carbonation system maker reported quarterly adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) $0.45 on revenues of…
ThinkstockOver the past three months, the poorest performing solar stock has increased by more about 53% and the best performing stock is up about 235%. So far, analysts’ price targets on the stocks have…
ThinkstockToll Brothers Inc. (NYSE: TOL) reported first-quarter fiscal 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The luxury home builder reported quarterly diluted earnings per share (EPS) $0.03 on revenues of $424.6 million. In the…
ThinkstockThe Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly report on mortgage applications this morning, noting a decrease of 1.7% in the group’s seasonally adjusted composite index, following a drop of 6.4% for the previous…
ThinkstockThe masses in one European nation once again demonstrated that government attempts to close deficits through austerity only work if people work. Greeks staged a large national strike to protest government cuts and higher…
Brian Katt / Wikimedia Commons / GNU Free Documentation LicenseBank of America Corp.’s (NYSE: BAC) chief executive officer, Brian Moynihan, has been rewarded appropriately for a combination of layoffs, settlements of legal issues with…
ThinkstockThe Chinese Army denied that it was behind a series of sophisticated cyber attacks that began as early as 2006. Someone else must have done it, despite proof provided by U.S. research firm Mandiant.…
ThinkstockNew Greek Austerity Protests The masses in one European nation once again demonstrated that government attempts to close deficits through austerity only work if people work. Greeks staged a large national strike to protest…
Courtesy Research in Motion Ltd.“The Wait Is Over” HTC said as it introduced its new HTC One smartphone flagship. For what? A new handset that is very like the Samsung and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)…
courtesy of XeroxXerox Corp. (NYSE: XRX) has become one of those ancient tech companies, not entirely unlike Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), that has overstayed its welcome in the market, as it struggles against much larger, more…
courtesy of Google Inc.No matter how much the European Commission wants the world to believe that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has a monopoly on search, at least in Europe, and how much software experts…
courtesy of AOL, IncBoeing Co. (NYSE: BA) gets an agreement with a key engineering unit. (Reuters) China says U.S. claims of hacking by one of its army units does not have sufficient technical proof.…
ThinkstockThe Japanese economy continues to slip into oblivion, having been passed as the world’s second largest by gross domestic product, a position it gave to China. Perhaps, it will lose another spot to Germany,…