These are this morning’s top analyst upgrades and positive research calls seen from Wall Street analysts early this Thursday morning: Accenture (ACN) Started as Outperform at Baird. Anadarko Petroleum (APC) Raised to Outperform at…
These are this Thursday’s top analyst downgrades seen from Wall Street research calls early this morning: Deere & Co. (DE) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan. eHealth (EHTH) Cut to Hold at Argus. Harmony Gold…
Oracle (ORCL) probably thought its deal to buy Sun Microsystems (JAVA) was a sure thing once US regulators had approved the deal. Now, the transaction is in real trouble and some experts believe it…
Most of the news yesterday was dominated by the news that Charles Gibson would leave as anchor of the ABC Evening News and be replaced by Diane Sawyer. Since almost no one under 60-years-old…
Google’s (GOOG) YouTube may finally come up with a way to raise revenue. It streamed nine billion videos last month, but, by some estimates loses $300 million a year. The quality of the video…
Case No. OIG-509 from the SEC Office of the Inspector General, also known as “Investigation of Failure of the SEC To Uncover Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme”, is good reading. The public may think the…
The minutes of the FOMC on August 11th and 12th were released today. The Fed did everything it could just short of saying that the recession is officially over. One of the critical notations…
Reuters: The sell-off in Chinese stocks may be overdone based on earnings. Reuters: A report blamed the SEC for not doing its job investigating Madoff. Reuters: The Fed says the risks to the American…
Markets in Asia were mixed The Nikkei fell .5% to 10,214. Honda (HMC) and Toyota (TM) both dropped more than 2%. The Hang Seng rose 1.4% to 19,786. The Shanghai Composite rose 4.8% to…
Now that we are out of the woods in the crash scenario, assuming this week is no ill omen, investors may want to know which of the big companies would start to deploy their…
The minutes of the August 11 and 12 FOMC meeting shows a Fed that is slowly growing more confident in things, yet the conviction is low. The FOMC was more confident that the recession…
What happens when you get a pullback after the markets have rallied some 50% from the lows of the year? Technicians key in with the charts, and much of the market bullishness suddenly disappears. …
The Department of Energy has just released its weekly inventory data for crude oil, gasoline, distillates, and refining levels. This week was marked by draw-downs but because of the weakness in the markets we…
Google’s (GOOG) Gmail system, which serves millions of customers around the world, shut down yesterday. The problem may hurt its efforts to market applications which include e-mail to businesses. Google prides itself on the…
BP (BP) said it has made a “giant” discovery of crude oil in its Tiber Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico. The well was drilled to a depth of over 35,000 feet and the…
These are this Tuesday’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks. We have links through to each with more detailed price/volume analysis over at VSinvestor.com: BP PLC (NYSE: BP) is up big by…
These are the top ten analyst research initiations, upgrades, and downgrades we have seen from top Wall Street firms early this Wednesday morning: Biogen-Idec (BIIB) Started as Underperform at BofA/Merrill Lynch. Forest Labs (FRX)…
Sony (SNE), which has failed at most of its new initiatives over the last two years, needs something to work. It PS3 has sold poorly. Prices for it digital cameras and TV screens are under…
Facebook, which has over 200 million users, is becoming nearly as widely available on handsets as it is on PCs. Its members cannot get enough of sharing their experiences and profiles with their Facebook…
There are dozens of biotech companies and several Big Pharma firms that hope to make money on swine flu treatments, mostly vaccines. They are driven by the WHO’s estimate that nearly a third of…