General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is out with its first-quarter earnings report for 2014. All in all, this looks like another great quarter on earnings expectations but one with slightly lower revenues.
American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) is finding a mixed reception after its earnings report. The higher-end credit card issuer reported a 16% earnings gain to $1.33 in earnings per share versus expectations of $1.30…
Jon OggInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has now reported its first quarterly earnings report for 2014. Big Blue’s shares were mixed ahead of the report with shares teetering between positive and negative throughout…
ZoesKitchen.comZoe’s Kitchen, Inc. (NYSE: ZOES) must think that another up day in the markets means that it is time to rally just like it was a normal IPO day elsewhere. Wednesday’s gain in the…
courtesy of the Federal ReserveFederal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen spoke at the Economic Club of New York on Wednesday, April 16, regarding monetary policy and the economic recovery. The initial reaction was that the…
Earnings season is upon us, and Thursday will bring earnings reports from oilfield services giants Schlumberger and Baker Hughes. 24/7 Wall St. has earnings previews for both stocks.
General Electric is expected to report earnings on Thursday morning before the open. GE's report likely will be dominated by more talk of the impending consumer finance unit spin-off.
IBM is set to report earnings after the close of trading on Wednesday. Big Blue sounds cheap on the earnings front because of its buybacks, but it has no real growth to speak of.
Canaccord Genuity is one of the few firms that are willing to cover small-cap biotech and emerging pharma stocks. Sometimes the price target upside is off the charts as well. In case of Lpath…
Sterne Agee's Arvind Bhatia has decided that enough is enough when it comes to the drop in shares of Twitter. He has decided to raise his rating to Neutral, citing potential for user growth…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street on Wednesday, April 16, 2014. They include Control4, Cree, NetApp, Twitter, Yahoo! and Yelp.
ThinkstockIntel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) is out with its first quarter earnings report. The top company for processors and semiconductors, and a Dow Jones Industrial Average component, reported earnings of $0.38 per share and revenue…
Ford Motor Co.Despite the highly promotional theme that seems to always be present in the car sales market, it turns out that new vehicle prices have been rising steadily over the past five years.…
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesAny time a market peaks, investors and commentators talk about the expectations of a sell-off. The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average peaked less than two weeks ago. Now…
Netflix shares got hit yet again on Tuesday. The leader in online video subscription services has hardly traded up in the past two months. Shares likely will have the lowest close since last October.
Herbalife is caught between a rock and a hard place. News hit in the past 24 hours that New York State also is investigating whether the company is a pyramid scheme. Shares fell in…
ThinkstockJanet Yellen is still getting her feet wet as chairman of the Federal Reserve. A speech on Tuesday morning may only act to create more confusion from the banks. At least that will be…
ThinkstockWall Street brokerage firms have to go through a quiet period after initial public offerings. In this time, the firms that participated in the underwriting syndicate cannot make analyst ratings and cannot talk up…
ThinkstockThe Consumer Price Index (CPI) in the month of March did not follow the exact same gains as last week’s Producer Price Index. That generally takes two months or even more before producers and…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. They include Citigroup, Equinix, IBM, Visa, Yahoo and Walmart.