ThinkstockAssociated Materials Group Inc. has filed its paperwork with the Securities & Exchange Commission to conduct an initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock. The IPO is expected to trade under a yet…
ThinkstockCONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNX) is one of the top players in the battered and out of favor coal sector. With politics working against coal and environmental regulation perpetually on the rise, it would…
courtesy of DellActivist Investor Carl Icahn is keeping up his hard court press against Michael Dell. Icahn said last week that he was raising his offer to acquire Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) in his…
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is calling for additional upside for the S&P 500 Index. The firm’s new price target for 2013 is 1,750 versus a prior target of only 1,600. While the 1,600…
courtesy of Sprint Corp.Last week we showed that Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) was given tremendous upside from analysts. Now there is another huge analyst call, but one calling for downside that may attract…
RadioShackRadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) is trading up on Monday on hopes that something may come its efforts to hire a financial advisor. We said back when the struggling electronics retailer named a new CEO…
courtesy of Google Inc.Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) should not be pleased at all that growth in mainland China keeps ratcheting lower to a new base. But on a day that might have been a…
ThinkstockDuke Energy Corp. (NYSE: DUK) may soon recapture some of its credit profile that had eroded for more than the past year, since its Progress merger. Moody’s Investors Service has now placed Duke’s corporate…
One of the big downsides of incredibly low short-term and long-term interest rates was that fiduciaries such as life insurers and pension managers were starting to have a very hard time making enough nominal…
ThinkstockBusiness inventories data for the month of May have been released this morning. May was brought along with a 0.1% gain, matching the Bloomberg consensus estimate of 0.1% and a tad higher than the…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Monday, July 15, 2013. They include NetApp, J.P. Morgan, UPS and Bank of New York.
Jon OggThe stock market is hitting new highs again, and the fear of the Bernanke exit and tapering of quantitative easing is becoming less and less prevalent. 24/7 Wall St. looks at many research…
ThinkstockFrance was a nation we had previously fingered to lose its prized “AAA” rating. After all, if the United States was losing its universal “AAA” rating then France and a handful of other key…
ThinkstockThe fate of Hulu and the online media content has been up for grabs and many firms were reportedly interested in buying the asset. The problem is that the bidding was a very long process…
courtesy Boeing Co.Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) just got yet another blow of bad news regarding its 787 Dreamliner. Details are scant as of now but news reports are citing another airplane fire at the Heathrow…
courtesy of NBN at German WikipediaThe news around tobacco and smoking cigarettes has been dominated by the trends around the e-cigarette market in 2013, but perhaps something else is afoot here. Cigarette case volumes…
This year truly has been a wonderful bull market year for stocks, with double-digit gains taking the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average to new all-time highs. The confusion in June…
The Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment has been released and investors and the public will care about this number because it is one of the first nearly live reports for the month of July.…
ThinkstockIt is hard to find many analysts or market pundits who will defend gold at this point. Sterne Agee analyst, Michael Dudas, is doing just that in a fresh research call. He is finding…
ThinkstockWells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) has released its second-quarter earnings report and the market likes what it sees so far. Earnings rose almost 20% with a record net income of $5.5 billion, or…