ThinkstockThe oil and gas giants have long been sought after by investors. Two of the three largest integrated players are Dow Jones Industrial Average components. They also offer solid dividends, and those dividends keep…
Wells Fargo has many things going for it. For instance, it has had the most successful stock buyback plan of all major banks, according to am obscure research report from Nomura's Bill Carcache.
Wikimedia CommonsAT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) had a sale of $2 billion in corporate bonds slated for Tuesday. Investors need to care about this offering because this represents AT&T’s first real attempt to go raise…
Courtesy Porsche Cars North America Inc.U.S. auto sales turned out to have an incredible month of sales in May. The news was good almost universally (except for the VW brand), but the luxury car…
National Bank of Greece was featured positively on Tuesday by the Nomura analyst team covering the European banking sector. The call actually has a bit of mixed data in it.
Apple may not have gotten the greatest reviews about how its Worldwide Developer's Conference this week will really help investors, but the number of analysts who have chimed in with higher targets has been…
Nomura has issued a research report on the banking sector that is far from the norm: how successful a series of stock buyback programs has been for the major regional banks.
ThinkstockNomura has issued a very different sort of research report on the U.S. regional and large banks. The firm’s Bill Carcache has a Neutral rating on the sector, but he has identified which banks…
ThinkstockWhile the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index continue to chug along and post new highs, there are more than a few warnings signs that are starting to pop up along the…
ThinkstockWith new Obama-led EPA rules for coal-powered electric utilities out, investors and traders have had yet one more reason to dump their coal stocks. The long and short of the matter is that coal…
These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Tuesday, June 3, 2014. They include Apple, Allergan, Broadcom, China Mobile, Devon Energy and Kroger.
ThinkstockNielsen N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) disclosed after the close that some 20 million shares would be sold by Valcon Acquisition Holding (Luxembourg) in an underwritten secondary offering. The same group will grant the underwriter a…
ThinkstockKrispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (NYSE: KKD) saw its shares getting creamed in the after-hours session on Monday. The company’s first quarter earnings of fiscal 2015 met estimates at $0.23 EPS, but revenue rose by…
courtesy of WhiteHouse.govHaving lunch with Warren Buffett is not something that many people get to do. So, once a year Warren Buffett auctions of a luncheon to the highest bidder. That is now up…
Barrons.comThis past weekend’s edition of Barron’s may be solely responsible for driving the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) to new highs on Monday. The Dow hit a new high of 16,746.81. The reason that…
Whenever you see a stock up more than 100%, the first assumption is that a buyout has occurred. Not so in the case of Giga-tronics.
Oppenheimer's Jason Helfstein has maintained an Outperform rating on Netflix on Monday, but the price target has been raised to $500 from $435 in the call.
ThinkstockThe analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch have come out with three top picks in the real estate investment trust (REIT) segment on Monday. Two of these offer significantly higher dividend yields than…
ThinkstockGold is not having a good year again so far in 2014, and the recent trends from the World Gold Council seem to indicate that the old path to $2,000 gold is just not in…
Thinkstock ISM has reportedly been an error and the numbers are being updated to show more growth rather than lower growth. There were apparently seasonal adjustment errors from ISM. Original article is below: The…