These are this Tuesday’s analyst upgrades and downgrades seen from Wall Street research calls: Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) Raised to Market Perform from Underperform at BMO Capital. American Express (NYSE: AXP) Raised to Neutral…
S&P said it will consider a downgrade of Japan’s sovereign debt. The nation faces the same pressure that countries from Ireland to Greece face. Japan’s national debt obligations are growing while its economy is…
The Administration will propose a three-year freeze on domestic spending programs that make up 17% of the federal budget. The White House estimate of the benefits is $250 billion over the period through 2020.…
The FT has determined that the growth of China’s scientific research has been greater than that of any other nation in the world over the last three decades. And, China could pass the US…
The use of wind power in America rose 39% last year according to a report from American Wind Energy Association cited in The New York Times. “The amount of capacity added last year, 9,900…
Does financial success make a brand or does a brand drive strong financial results? The extraordinary quarterly results of Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) raise the question. Apple beat most analyst expectations with its latest…
The World Economic Forum at Davos has lost its cache of a few years. It was hurt badly by the recession. CEOs were reluctant to be seen flying their private jets to Switzerland to rub shoulders…
Reuters: Obama will seek a three years domestic spending freeze aimed at cutting $250 billion from the deficit by 2020. Reuters: China tightened bank credit rules. Reuters: Chinese media criticized the US for “polticizing” the Google…
Markets in Asia fell sharply. The Nikkei dropped 1.8% to 10,325. The Hang Seng fell 2.1% to 20,157. The Shanghai Composite dropped 2.4% to 3,019 as the Chinese government put in new bank reserve…
VMware Inc (NYSE: VMW) has been a difficult stock to evaluate for many because it is basically a virtualization tracking stock since EMC Corp.(NYSE: EMC) still owns about 80% of the company. But that is…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has just reported earnings after the closing bell. The iPhone and iPod maker posted $3.67 EPS on a GAAP basis and $15.69 billion in revenues versus the Thomson Reuters consensus…
The Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (NYSE: AGM), a.k.a. Farmer Mac, today raised additional capital. The capital came via a sale in a private offering of shares of non-cumulative perpetual preferred stock of Farmer Mac…
The ongoing Telepresence effort made by Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has some new competition from a rival networking technology company as well as from a rival in the video communications market. While this…
By Douglas A. McIntyre AT&T (T) will lose its U.S. exclusive distribution rights for the Apple (AAPL) iPhone on Wednesday, according to a report published at tech blog Hot Hardware, which claims to have…
By Paul Ausick of 24/7 Wall St. Halliburton (HAL) reported fourth-quarter 2009 net income of $243 million (EPS of $0.27), down 48% from $468 million (EPS of $0.87) in the same period a year…
From Venture Beat Apple (AAPL) has been testing 50 devices believed to be its new tablet computers, according to analytics firm Flurry. Flurry said its analytics showed that the device were being tested on Apple’s…
Ed Whitacre, who is at least partially responsible for the problems at GM since it came out of Chapter 11, will add the CEO title to that of chairman. He has been interim CEO since…
Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) strongly implied that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has done the wrong thing by challenging the Chinese government on censorship of the internet. According to Reuters, Gates views China’s online screening…
These are Monday’s top day trader and active trader alerts seen in the pre-market levels. We have a link to each story where applicable over at VSInvestor.com with more details and analysis: Pacific Ethanol,…
Updated throughout the day. Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will announce the end to its exclusive AT&T (NYSE:T) deal later this week (various) Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) will limit the pay of its London partners to $1.6 million. (Bloomberg)…