Jon OggInternational Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) has filed its automatic shelf registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission. What investors will wonder is whether this will be new debt or other sales,…
ThinkstockFacebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) did manage to surprise not just Wall Street and Main Street with its earnings report. It blew the numbers out of the water, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is even proving to…
ThinkstockThe Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index is an index that we maintain is not as accurate nor as fair as most economic reports. After all, it is sold as a subscription and it…
ThinkstockWith the stock market booming and the big cap technology stocks missing their second-quarter numbers, the tech analysts at Lazard Capital Markets are doing the deep-dive to find the names that can show significant…
ThinkstockWhen the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) analysts at UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) launched their U.S Select REIT portfolio, the idea was to have a flexible portfolio that could be added to or deleted…
flickr / walmartcorporateThe solar power stocks and LED stocks have come back handily from their lows. Investors were severely burned here, and perhaps blinded by the light, no pun intended. Credit Suisse has issued…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Friday, July 26, 2013. They include Baidu, Tesla Motors, Campbell Soup, OpenTable and Raytheon.
Jon OggInvestors get to see many analyst upgrades and Buy ratings from Wall Street firms, but they are often left in the dark about when it becomes time to sell. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many…
ZyngaZynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) saw its shares trade higher on Thursday ahead of earnings. The euphoria was tied to the Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) stock surge after earnings. The good news for Zynga is…
ThinkstockAmazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) shares have defied gravity, and maybe even defied logic, for so long that it is almost just too hard to criticize the company each time it reports earnings. Amazon has…
ThinkstockIf you were told that coffee lowers your risk of suicide, would you believe it? A new report in the Harvard Gazette talked up a July study and the end result is that coffee…
The days of Ben Bernanke as the chairman of the Federal Reserve are looking shorter and shorter ahead of his term expiration in 2014. President Obama has said that Bernanke is likely ready to…
ThinkstockThe airlines sector in transportation has done very well in this recovery. It turns out that lowering capacity, merging rivals, increasing airfares, and upping the charges for just about every aspect of what customers…
ThinkstockEsther George, president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve, is the most vocal voting member of the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). At each FOMC meeting, she is against the endless easing…
ThinkstockSequenom Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) is back in the news, but not in a good way. The company that saw its share price collapse in 2009 over its genetic test kits not doing what they…
ThinkstockThe housing collapse and the banking collapse nearly brought on a total meltdown of the financial markets. Ever since, we have heard shrill cries of not having any financial institution that is too big to…
ThinkstockShort sellers are continuing to keep their bets against many of the top defensive high-yield dividend stocks. Increased volatility in June and rising interest rates are obviously making short sellers get aggressive in some…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Thursday, July 25, 2013. They include Caterpillar, Facebook, Ford, Sequenom and Northrup Grumman.
Courtesy EADS/AirbusWhen you see a blowout in durable goods, you usually have to get the reminder that the number is one of the most volatile of all economic releases and can be wildly up…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has released its second-quarter earnings report showing that sales rose by 53% year over year to $1.813 billion in the quarter. Earnings came in at $0.19 per…