J.P. Morgan Dividend Disappointment Confirmed
Wikimedia CommonsJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) was a bank we already knew was effectively denied permission to raise its dividend. If you have tracked the stress tests and the return of capital…
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ETF Folly: Just When You Thought Bond Yields Would Skyrocket
ThinkstockBond yields have risen over the past month or two, and many investors expected those yields to keep rising. That was before Monday. The latest European debacle in Cyprus wanting to steal depositor funds to pay…
Analyst Upgrades Housing Stocks — the Big Chase Marches On (KBH, LEN, TOL, WY, XHB, ITB)
ThinkstockBy now you are likely well aware that the housing crisis is not just over. The housing market is undersupplied and many markets are experiencing huge booms in their pricing. Many economists preach that housing…
Who Keeps Cloning Email from Sprint CEO Dan Hesse?
ThinkstockIf you ever worry about improper usage of email, identity theft, impersonation and other online troubles that we all never used to have, imagine if you are the chief executive officer of a very…
Lululemon Pants Recall — from Bad to Worse
ThinkstockLululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) already had a rough Monday, but things are going from bad to worse after it disclosed a shortage of its Luon pants and cropped pants due to “quality issues” in the…
Oppenheimer Industrial Stocks to Buy With Big Earnings Increases (HON, ETN, NDSN, WCC, PNR, RBC)
ThinkstockAs the country slowly has emerged from the gut-wrenching recession of 2008 and 2009, several industries have helped to lead the recovery. We have covered in great detail not only the reemergence of the home…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ADT, BAC, BHP, CHK, CI, GLW, DE, EBAY, EA, JCP, JNPR, LULU, MNTA, OGE, RSH, RIO, TEF, RIG, UNM)
Jon OggInvestors and traders constantly seek new good research-driven ideas for stocks to buy and for stocks to sell. Some of these come from independent research and some come from the large sell-side investment…
BofA/Merrill Lynch Slashes RadioShack and, Oddly, Raises Target Price
RadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) just cannot manage to find any love. The troubled electronics retailer was downgraded to Neutral at BofA/Merrill Lynch, which is really just part of the ongoing wave of negative sentiment…
Analyst Says the Time to Rotate Semiconductor Stocks Is Now (ADI, LLTC, MXIM, TXN, INTC, BRCM, AVGO, NXPI, FCS, ONNN, MPWR, SIMO, DB, GS)
ThinkstockThe stock market has had a tremendous first quarter, and semiconductor stocks as a sector are up more than 15%. Even though many Wall St. analysts and equity strategists see the market moving higher,…
Smith & Wesson Files to Raise up to $250 Million in New Capital
Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: SWHC) may be lining up its finances to raise more buffer capital as it enters into a part of its business cycle that is likely going to be…
Meredith Whitney Jumps Back on BofA to Grab the Bull by the Horns
Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) may have a more bold cheerleader in Dick Bove’s call that BofA’s common stock is still going back up to $30 in the next two or three years.…
EA Wants New Blood to Turn Its Ship Around
courtesy of NvidiaElectronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) is going to see if a new chief executive officer will get its growth fortunes back on track. The video game giant has now confirmed that CEO John…
Janney Outlines Possible Spillover from Cyprus
ThinkstockThis morning we went on record calling the European proposal to make depositors face a Cyprus bailout tax on their bank deposits as being nothing short of theft. A levy, tax, fee, or any…
The Call for Verizon Wireless Consolidation Grows Louder
ThinkstockIn this morning’s top analyst upgrades and downgrades from 24/7 Wall St. (released each morning), one of the top upgrades was in Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ). It was an upgrade from Citigroup that caught…
7 Active Trading Big Volume Spikes (CHTR, GLUU, INCY, JNPR, PCRX, SLCA, VCLK)
ThinkstockActive traders and more active investors looking for news lists of stocks to buy or other investing ideas often look at stocks which are very active in trading volume. Some are up big, some…
Morgan Stanley Raises S&P and Dollar Targets
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) has made several changes on its strategy team, with new outlooks in currency and index levels. The big change is in the S&P 500, although it was behind the curve…
STMicroelectronics Wins as Ericsson Loses in Joint Venture Wind Down
STMicroelectronics N.V. (NYSE: STM) is winning while Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) is losing on news that the two companies have agreed to split up their unprofitable joint venture. Some assets will be taken by each company while other…
Cyprus Deposit Seizure Hitting Euro and PIIGS Banks
ThinkstockI already have gone on the record that the taxation of deposits in Cyprus is nothing short of theft. Regardless of a bloated banking system that was in shambles, taking depositors’ assets under this method…
Cyprus Moves from Taxation to Theft
wikicommons / SkimstaWhat we are seeing is in Cyprus an instance when taxation becomes theft. When depositors place money in banks, they assume that their deposits are safe as long as the banks do…
Credit Suisse Shows MLPs That Can Thrive Even Under Rising Interest Rates (PAA, KMI, KMR, MMP, EPD)
ThinkstockThe looming risk (or likely fact) that interest rates will rise has been on the mind of investors and Wall St. analysts and pundits for quite some time. Most will concede that the Treasury…