Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Lululemon, Apple, Disney and More
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. They include Lululemon, Apple and Disney.
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Emerging Market Bonds Facing Bear Market Too, Along with Their Stocks
ThinkstockWe have been extensively covering the rising interest rate environment as longer-dated Treasury notes and bonds have been falling in value and rising in yields. Today’s ratings agency news that Standard & Poor’s was…
Why Pandora May Be Immune to iTunes Radio
courtesy of Pandora MediaPandora Media Inc. (NYSE: P) is, or was, at risk of being crushed by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) over the previously rumored and now announced iTunes Radio service. Pandora is said…
Organized Retail Crime and Loss Prevention: Billions and Billions Up for Grabs
ThinkstockJust how big of a problem is organized retail crime? The answer likely varies in absolute dollar terms, but undoubtedly the answer is “huge.” We wanted to look into this as this week will…
Greek Privatization Effort Flops on Lack of Bidders
ThinkstockIf things are really stabilizing or set to get better in Greece and the rest of the PIIGS in Europe, then why did a privatization sale end up with no bidders? That is what…
St. Louis Fed’s Bullard Sees QE Continuation Under Low Inflation
By now you have figured out that the Federal Reserve is full of mixed opinions when it comes to keeping up or tapering off the $85 billion in monthly bond and asset purchases under…
Sterne Agee Has Three Oil Services Stocks to Buy for Higher Rig Counts Ahead
ThinkstockOil rig counts have started rising, and at least one analyst expects this to continue throughout 2013 and into 2014. Sterne Agee’s Stephen Gengaro has decided to offer out his favorite stocks to buy in the…
Big Implied Upside for Ambit as Analyst Quiet Period Ends
ThinkstockAmbit Biosciences Corp. (NASDAQ: AMBI) has been somewhat tame since its recent initial public offering (IPO). Its quiet period has ended and the analyst community is looking past a poor post-IPO performance with very…
Treasury Short Sellers Winning, More Risks Ahead
ThinkstockThe never-ending bull market in Treasury bonds appears to be looking more and more as though the party is over. At some point, the risk-reward is just too great and people will only settle…
S&P Removes USA Negative Credit Watch
ThinkstockStandard & Poor’s has taken one step to normalize its credit ratings of the United States of America. In a report that seems to have come out of the blue, S&P has maintained the…
Top Analyst Downgrades and Stocks to Sell: Micron, Tesla, Morgan Stanley and More
Jon OggInvestors often see analyst upgrades and Buy ratings from Wall Street firms, but it is frequent that they do not hear when a firm says to sell a stock. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many…
Deutsche Bank Lists Well-Known Small Cap Stocks to Buy
ThinkstockThe definition of small cap can vary among brokerages, but generally it is a company with a market capitalization of between $300 million and $3 billion. One of the biggest advantages of investing in…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Stocks to Buy: BHP, Facebook, Monsanto, AT&T and More
Investors and traders are often looking out for new research ideas that will lead to higher income or more profits. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many fresh research calls each morning to find great ideas from…
Top Technology Stocks to Buy From the Merrill Lynch Global Technology Conference
ThinkstockOne recurring theme we see at 24/7 Wall Street is that technology stocks, for all of their glitter and notoriety, have greatly underperformed one of the longest and hottest bull market runs since the…
Top Analyst Calls of the Week, Stocks to Buy, Stocks to Sell, Sector by Sector
This last week had much more volatility than what investors have grown used to. 24/7 Wall St. wanted to highlight the top analyst sector research calls of the week now that investors are trying…
AMR Bankruptcy Exit Timeline Points to Third Quarter
AMRAMR Corporation (AAMRQ) has announced that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York has approved the disclosure statement for the company’s reorganization plan. AMR also confirmed that American is now…
REIT Conversion Risks Not Just for Iron Mountain
ThinkstockApparently changing your corporate status to a real estate investment trust (REIT) does not always come easy, nor is there such thing as a free lunch. Iron Mountain Inc. (NYSE: IRM) is seeing it…
Walmart’s New $15 Billion Buyback, Shareholder Reward as Strike Threats Rise
courtesy Making Change at Walmart and UFCWWal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has had its annual shareholder meeting, which is also coming at a time when many local Walmart employees are threatening the company with…
State and Local Governments Are Adding Jobs Again
ThinkstockRemember all the talk about how sequestration was going to lead to endless numbers of firings and endless cuts in government services? Surprise! It did not really happen anywhere as much as they were…
May Unemployment and Payrolls Bring Choppy Seas, but Not All Bad
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department has released its unemployment and payrolls reading for the month of May. The data looks mixed on the surface. The bad news is that the official…