These are the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls we have seen from Wall Street early this Wednesday morning: Acorda Therapeutics (ACOR) Raised to Overweight at Piper Jaffray. Coca-Cola Entertainment (CCE) Raised…
These are some of the top analyst downgrades and negative research calls we have seen from Wall Street early this Wednesday morning: Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer. Ctrip.com International (CTRP)…
RIM (RIMM) has come up with a way to take market share from Apple (AAPL) and Palm (PALM) in the smart phone market. It is launching the BlackBerry 8520, a handset that will be…
Yahoo! (YHOO) filed an 8K with the SEC with details of its search engine agreement with Microsoft (MSFT). Several of the provisions of the contract are better than investors may have expected.
It has begun to dawn on economists that all of the good news about housing, GDP, and earnings much be leading somewhere. Practitioners of the dismal science are beginning to make upward revisions to…
GM’s new chairman Edward E. Whitacre Jr said that one of his major goals is to make certain that the No.1 US car company stays N0.1. GM will find it very hard to measure…
Reuters: GM’s new board endorsed the company’s new plans. Reuters: The Senate will probably approve “cash for clunkers” aid. Reuters: Sony (SNE) will enter the market with an e-reader to compete with Amazon (AMZN).…
Markets in Asia were lower. The Nikkei fell 1.2% to 10,253. Toyota (TM) dropped on earnings. The Hang Seng fell 1.2% to 20,512. The Shanghai Composite fell 1.2% to 3,247. At the open in…
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is set to report earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday. Be advised that estimates could change ever so slightly before the formal number if there are any last…
Sony (SNE) has had one hit product in the thirty years since it launched the Walkman. That product was the PlayStation 2. Microsoft (MSFT) and Nintendo bull-dozed Sony out of its position as the…
It is easy to forget about the NetJets Inc. company…. Partly because of the recession, and partly because even fractional ownership of private jets has been vilified by the attack on wealth today. Yet…
Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced results for its first quarter of fiscal 2010, and shares are holding their own. Non-GAAP net revenue was $816 million, a gain of 34% from a year ago,…
Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI) has reported that sales for the last quarter rose by 2% to $1.878 billion, although comparable store sales decreased 2.5% versus a 2.6% increase in the prior year.…
This morning we started seeing increased trading activity in shares of the long-troubled photo giant Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK). Then came the option alerts along with the doubling volume alert from VSInvestor.com. Technically,…
General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) has reached a settlement with the SEC regarding four accounting matters in 2002 and 2003. Yep, 2002 and 2003. This has enough of a look-back that it is probably…
“It is probably well that we had the war when we did. We are better off now than we would have been without it, and have made more rapid progress than we otherwise should…
The reading for pending home sales in June is showing a continued return to of housing, or at least that the worst is over. The June figures came to +3.6%, marking the fifth consecutive…
By John Tamny of RealClearMarkets In a piece written to shed light on the allegedly evil doings of Goldman Sachs, Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi unwittingly let readers in on why the majority…
This morning we caught the news on a volume alert, but there was no confirmation of the news. Now, we have the formal release from PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP). Pepsi has capitulated and decided to…
Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google (GOOG), resigned from the Apple (AAPL) board of directors. Apple says it was because of increasing conflicts between the two company’s products. There has been an uneasy detente…