These are this morning’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Capital One Financial (NYSE: COF) Raised to Buy at SunTrust. Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) Raised to Outperform at…
One part of the calculus involved in the cost of Toyota’s (TM) recall of 8 million cars is what it will do to the profits of its more than 1,200 US dealers. BusinessWeek estimates that the aggregate…
Microsoft (MSFT) announced that its revenue rose 14% in the last quarter to $19 billion. EPS rose 57% to $.74. Most of the improvement was due to the sales of Microsoft’s new PC operating…
The president has decided to propose a $33 billion program to drive new hiring, particularly among America's small businesses. The system would be based on tax credits for every new worker hired. The benefit…
Shares in almost every major American company on the most active list fell and in some cases fell sharply on the 28th. The stock of Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM), the largest handset chip maker in the world,…
Reuters: Congress will probe the Toyota (NYSE:TM) recalls. Reuters: Samsung said chip and TV demand is strengthening. Reuters: Some AIG (NYSE:AIG) employees are open to cuts in retention pay.
Markets in Asia fell. The Nikkei was off 2.1% to 10,198. Toyota (NYSE:TM) dropped more on recall news. The Hang Seng fell 1.2% to 20,122. The Shanghai Composite was down by .2% to 2,989.…
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has just reported earnings of $0.85 EPS and $9.52 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had estimates of $0.72 EPS and $9.04 billion. The company sees $6.45 billion to $7 billion…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has just reported earnings of $0.74 on the headline and $0.60 EPS for non-GAAP earnings and $19.02 billion in revenues. The estimates from Thomson Reuters were $0.59 EPS and $17.84…
Align Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: ALGN) rose over 15.5% to a yearly high of $19.25 after the maker of teeth straightening technology forecast first quarter earnings of $0.12 or more, topping analyst estimates. Gentex Corporation…
Potash Corp. (NYSE: POT) has been one of the amazing companies in an amazing sector, or at least it was back when the developing world was moving from one meal to two meals a…
The large multinational companies were supposed to have done their layoffs during the first half of 2009, when the recession was at its worst. Those layoffs should have cut as close to the bone as…
Today is effectively what we are penning as the crest of earnings season. Things have changed because of the sell-off seen this morning on options trader valuation and implied percentages. We tallied over 60…
Since the inception of Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store more than 140,000 applications have been produced by thousands of developers. The debut of Apple’s iPad provides a whole new platform for developers to tailor their products to. Apple has developed…
These are this Thursday’s top day trader and active trader alerts. We have a link over to VSInvestor.com for each story with more details and analysis: Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) is up 2%…
Updated throughout the day. Jeff Zucker, the head of the NBCU unit at GE (NYSE:GE) may be fired (BusinessInsider) The new CEO of Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) will make a $950,000 salary (TheStreet) Large Europe nations…
Gold has been on a tear and has performed better than stocks in recent years. But we have now seen a pullback and gold is back under $1,100.00 per ounce. While you can still…
These are this Thursday’s top 10 analyst calls for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research: Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) Raised to Overweight at Barclays Capital. Alliant Techsystems Inc. (NYSE: ATK) Cut…
The IPO market is off to a rough start so far in 2010. We have seen very recent developments in deals on deck to price from CBOE Holdings Inc., Convio Inc., Everyday Health Inc., FriendFinder Networks Inc.,…
Toyota’s (TM) reputation in the US is in the process of being destroyed due to safety concerns about its most popular models which have caused recalls and a production hiatus in some plants. Ford…