These are the top ten stocks seeing analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street early this Friday morning: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) was given a cautious call from Oppenheimer, noting that it could…
GE”s (NYSE:GE) earnings were hurt by results from its financial unit, but that was only the beginning of the company’s problems. The conglomerate announced third-quarter 2009 earnings from continuing operations of $2.5 billion, or…
It is easy to forget how important sub-$40 oil prices were at the beginning of this year as the world dove into recession. If crude had been above $140 as it had been in…
Bruce Wasserstein, the CEO of Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) and by far its most important employee, became ill over the weekend, with heart problems. He died on Wednesday. The company described his condition as serious but stable…
24/7 Wall St. is conducting a series of interviews with prominent economist and market strategist. Jason DeSena Trennert is the Managing Partner, Chief Investment Strategist at Strategas Research Partners LLP. The conversation:
The competition in the e-reader and e-book industries gets more brutal by the day. Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is the e-reader leader because of the success of its Kindle. Other companies including Sony (NYSE:SNE) have come…
Reuters: Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) posted strong results. Reuters: Bank of America’s (NYSE:BAC) Lewis will skip 2009 pay. Reuters: Japan Airlines says bankruptcy is an option to solving its problems. Reuters: Soros says…
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose .2% to 10,258. The Hang Seng fell .1% to 21,988. Petro China (NYSE:PTR) was up but Sinopec (NYSE:SNP) fell. The Shanghai Composite fell 1.% to 2,977.…
IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) each reported better-than-expected earnings. Wall St.’s reaction to the Google numbers was muted and its stock moved up 3% to $547. IBM raised its guidance for the year, but…
IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) each reported better-than-expected earnings. Wall St.’s reaction to the Google numbers was muted and its stock moved up 3% to $547. IBM raised its guidance for the year, but…
by Jeff Gerth, ProPublica In May 2006, medical regulators in Denmark issued a warning that signaled trouble for General Electric (NYSE:GE). Danish researchers noted that, over a four-year period, 25 patients in Denmark and…
Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) CEO Ken Lewis is still the firm’s CEO. He was going to leave at the end of the year. The board of the bank would like to find a replacement…
Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) has just disclosed in an SEC filing the “Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.” The company noted that…
IBM (NYSE:IBM) slightly beat Wall St. estimates with EPS of $2.40, an 18% improvement over the same period a year ago. The consensus estimate for the quarter was $2.38 . The huge computer and IT…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has just reported earnings of $5.89 non-GAAP EPS and revenues of $5.94 billion gross and $4.38 billion on an ex-TAC basis. Thomson Reuters had estimates for the King of Internet…
Polaris Industries Inc. (NYSE: PII) rallied over 11% to a yearly high of $49.36 after the ATV manufacturer announced that it expects 4Q profits to beat estimates. Manhattan Associates Inc. (NASDAQ: MANH) shares rallied…
We are starting to see some elevated options trading that appeared on the unusual volume screens. Many of these are pre-earnings trading and some are on other expectations. We have more detailed data on…
Calling for more and more gains after what we have seen in the troubled financial sector is a tough call on the surface. Yet, that is what Rochdale’s Dick Bove is calling for, again. …
As usual, the weekly energy inventories data is giving a picture that can be construed as bullish or bearish for the price of oil and gas, yet there is a wrench in the machine…
Too many companies want to compete with Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) relatively successful Kindle unit, although investors are concerned that the devices, priced at $249, will never have mass market appeal. Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS) is…