Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen so far this Wednesday from Wall St. research calls. Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A. (NYSE: BUD) cut to Reduce at Nomura. Apple Inc.…
Last week we featured top picks from analysts at some of Wall St.’s largest firms. We had everything from the very eclectic to the standard large cap parade of names. This week we examine…
ThinkstockBack in December, we took an in-depth look at what has become a crowded race in the obesity drug market. As we pointed out then, the race has become a battle of not only…
Wikimedia CommonsJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is seeing shares play a little give-back this morning after the largest bank by deposits has reported it fourth-quarter earnings as $5.3 billion. That came to…
courtesy of DellOK, so the buyout of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) may not be as much hype as the market was originally thinking. Buying a company for more than $20 billion is no easy task…
clevelandbrowns.comFirstEnergy Corp. (NYSE: FE) is taking on a new risk, a risk which you will not find anywhere in its annual report and proxy filings. The company has partnered with the NFL’s Cleveland Browns to…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.The highly anticipated event from Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is finally here. In the “Come see what we’re building” event, it sure seems that Mark Zuckerberg’s tease was aimed at emulating…
ThinkstockWith banks having been the best DJIA sector in 2012, the outlook versus the valuation has started to play a game of catch-up as we are getting deeper into earnings season this week. Because…
Jon OggCurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust (NYSEMKT: FXY) and ProShares UltraShort Yen (NYSEMKT: YCS) have a lot to win or lose based upon the new devaluation/inflation strategy of Japan’s politicians and central bankers. Today on Bloomberg Surveillance we…
ThinkstockArgus may not be a household name for investors looking for traditional Wall Street research calls. The firm dates all the way back to 1934 and it offers unbiased research through brokerage firms. Argus…
By Matthew YoheMatt Yohe at en.wikipedia CC-BY-3.0, from Wikimedia CommonsApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may have been the greatest growth story over the past decade, but the woes and losses coming into play now are…
ThinkstockWe recently wrote that shorting the Treasury bond market may very well be the next biggest short-sale trade since the subprime mortgage short. While rates have dipped a little in the past week as investors…
ThinkstockIf investing in master limited partnerships was getting confusing already, now investors have a new investment vehicle that allows them to invest in the smaller or “junior” MLPs without taking on the risks of just…
thinkstockLululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) is seeing its shares battered this morning after the company’s earnings forecast is just not enough to keep the buzz going here. What is interesting is that analysts and investors…
A slew of economic data was released this morning. We got a look at retail sales, wholesale inflation via producer prices, and also the Empire Manufacturing reading. Some data is more current than others.…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen so far this Tuesday. There is a larger concentration around biotech and emerging pharma this morning, but that is coincidental. AFLAC…
ThinkstockWith ICR XChange, one of the world’s largest consumer symposiums, coming up this week in Miami, we thought it would be a good time to take a look at consumer stocks. There is a growing…
ThinkstockDell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has seen its shares rise handily on Monday on news (rumors really) that the company might be in talks with private equity firms in a possible go-private transaction. All we can…
ThinkstockDell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) may have found a way out of its woes as a public company. If you remember all of the private equity and leveraged buyout talks from the past, they are…
The nation does not know what is coming down the pipe on gun control. After the Newtown massacre, everyone knows and is braced for some form of gun control. President Obama appointed Vice President…