These are this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: American Express (NYSE: AXP) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley. Capital One (NYSE: COF) Started as Equal Weight…
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) will not wait until the day after Thanksgiving to begin its holiday sales. It wants to take whatever early shopping business it can get from Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Target (NYSE:TGT), and Best Buy…
The speculation over the fate of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Fed chief Ben Bernanke has grown as Congress has become more troubled by rising federal deficits and unemployment. The $787 billion stimulus package has…
The federal budget calls for the United States to make $700 billion in interest payments on the national debt in 2019, about $500 billion more that the government will make this year. The New…
News Corp (NYSE:NWS) has made a great deal of the fact that Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) News gets a major benefit by running headlines from News Corp properties including The Wall Street Journal and Fox. Google…
M&A transactions with several bidders chasing one company often get so expensive that the winner in the auction become the later loser financially. Kraft (NYSE:KFT) has offered $16.5 billion for Cadbury. Cadbury trades at nearly…
Reuters: The dollar may keep rising as investors close out bets on oil and the currency. Reuters: Black Friday deals may not signal a retail comeback. Reuters: Kraft (NYSE:KFT) is weighing a higher Cadbury…
Market in Asia were up with Japan closed for a holiday The Hang Seng rose 1.4% to 22,773. The Shanghai Composite was up .9% to 3,339. At the open in Europe, the FTSE was…
24/7 Wall St. looked at a very large number of Nascar crashes to assess which were the most expensive. The crashes reviewed occurred between 2002 and the present. A Fox Sports analysis estimates that the…
24/7 Wall St. sat down with Dan Hesse, CEO of Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) to talk about the company’s current subscriber growth issues, the firm’s WiMax roll-out, and the future of broadband telecommunications. The interview:…
Colgate Palmolive (NYSE:CL) is the next likely consumer products company that will get a takeover offer. There have been rumors recently that Reckitt Benckiser, based in the UK, might be the acquirer, but the firm does not…
The Royal Bank of Scotland (NYSE:RBS) has had Cadbury as a corporate client for decades. The financial firm agreed to help fund Kraft’s (NYSE:KFT) potential buyout of Cadbury. RBS’s ownership is controlled by the UK…
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is counting on its relationship with China Unicom (NASDAQ:CHU) to drive iPhone sales in a nation which already has over 500 million mobile subscribers. The head of Unicom said he expects the iPhone to take…
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is having an issue which may have just cost sellers millions and millions of dollars in untold profits today. After doing random searches today on Christmas present purchases and with eBay…
With the passing of each hour, there are more media reports that talks between GE (NYSE:GE) and Vivendi for the French company to sell its 20% of NBCU to the American conglomerate have moved closer to collapse.…
Sony (NYSE:SNE) said it might not have its e-reader, the Daily Edition Reader, ready to ship before Christmas. It has given customers a range of dates for availability of its product that could be as early…
Dillard’s Inc. (NYSE: DDS) rose as high as over 10% to a yearly high of $15.79 after the department-store chain was upgraded by Deutsche Bank AG. Dress Barn Inc. (NASDAQ: DBRN) rose as…
We have seen some unusual options trading today. As you would expect, some is around today’s 4:00 PM close with today being options expiration date. But some bets are way out into 2011 and…
Earnings season has mostly wound down, but as always at least some major companies are reporting earnings. Some are actually market-movers as well and it is a short week with earnings out only Monday…
Baker Hughes, Inc. (NYSE: BHI) has released its data on the weekly rig counts and most are up. We are watching the key ETF products react via the Oil Services HOLDRs (NYSE: OIH), the…