These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Tuesday, July 9, 2013. They include Hewlett-Packard, Western Digital and SanDisk.
ThinkstockCorporate America continues to increase cash payouts to shareholders at a high, shareholder-friendly rate. S&P 500 dividends per share growth accelerated to 15.5% in the second quarter. That was well above the 5% growth…
These are the top analyst downgrades, cautious research notes and stocks to sell from Wall Street for Tuesday, July 9, 2013. They include Barrick Gold, DuPont, IBM, Intuitive Surgical and Wells Fargo.
ThinkstockYume Inc. has filed to come public via an initial public offering (IPO). No terms have been set other than that the original filing is for up to $65 million in common stock. Citigroup and…
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe Labor Department report on Friday is going to be a very interesting. Investors and traders, and the public for that matter, have to worry about the real unemployment report…
bitcoin.orgThey say that there is an ETF strategy for just about anything. Now that Bitcoin has gotten a lot of coverage there is news that the famed Winklevoss twins, made famous by a legal…
We have been seeing very strong auto sales in America for the month of June. If you read through the headlines these were by large broad-based gains. Some were record sales ever for certain…
thinkstockThe ADR shares of National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE: NBG) are having yet another rough day. News that the nation of Greece may not receive bailout funds is not helping matters for the…
ThinkstockThe world of hedge funds and active management is on the verge of a serious change as far as Joe Public is concerned. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is on the verge of…
ThinkstockFactory orders in America rose by a slightly better than expected 2.1% in May, according to the Commerce Department. Both Bloomberg and Dow Jones had estimates for a gain of 2.0%. If you back…
ThinkstockThe Institute for Supply Management (ISM) has released its Report on Business for the month of June, and the numbers are pretty bad. In fact, the June report appears to be a four-year low…
ThinkstockZynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) has enjoyed a sudden new interest from traders on news that Don Mattrick has been hired away from the Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) Interactive unit. The stock enjoyed a gain of…
ThinkstockOn Friday after the market closed, biotech giant Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) made an unsolicited $120 per share bid for Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ONXX) that was rejected. The company has now hired advisors…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Tuesday, July 2, 2013. They include Cheniere Energy, Groupon, Linn Energy and Seagate Technology.
ThinkstockTransportation stocks are typically leading indicators for the economy and the stock market. They did well in the first half of the year, outperforming the S&P 500 by almost 4%, despite the fact that…
You heard the great hope behind the Arab Spring after riots and coups in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere in Northern Africa and the Middle East. If Egypt’s economic numbers were translated elsewhere into a…
Jon OggCredit Suisse has issued its top stocks to buy in the small-cap and mid-cap equity strategy, which are its picks with a market cap less than $7 billion. Each Credit Suisse analyst identified…
Courtesy BlackBerryBlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY), formerly known as Research In Motion, has seen its shares crushed since Thursday’s close due to a very disappointing earnings report with lower BlackBerry 10 shipments on Friday morning. Analysts…
courtesy of AppleApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is getting a big bounce on Monday after an upgrade from Raymond James. This was covered in our top analyst upgrades and downgrades on Monday morning, but we…
ThinkstockThe stock market may have seen increased volatility of late, but stocks are still in a bull market. 24/7 Wall St. has evaluated the best performing technology stocks of the S&P 500 so far…