Jon OggThese are the top analyst calls of upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall St. research calls this Friday morning. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) maintained Hold but…
SUPERVALU Inc. (NYSE: SVU) is down and out, and the question is whether it is so down that it is out of time. Shares closed at $2.12 on Thursday against a 52-week range of…
Jon OggBrinker International, Inc. (NYSE: EAT) is trying to show that it has earnings power and anticipates earnings growth ahead. The company is hiking its dividend payout by 25%. Business at Chili’s and Maggiano’s must…
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has released what is nothing short of a disappointing second quarter earnings report. Its non-GAAP earnings per share were $0.48 versus $0.44 a year ago, while sales came in with a 4%…
Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG) has announced a new agreement to recover landfill gas today with a unit of Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (Nasdaq: CLNE). The move is to expand the availability of renewable…
The hedge fund business might not be so easy after all, even for billionaires. Reports are out today citing ‘people close to the situation’ that Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) via its private bank is…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is appointing four new board members, an effort which will replace retiring members. The move will initially take the number of board members up to a count of sixteen…
General Growth Properties Inc. (NYSE: GGP) is on the move after a letter was sent to the company calling for a sale by activist investor (and 2nd largest shareholder) Pershing Square. Bill Ackman’s firm…
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced the last sale of the remaining securities in the American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) Maiden Lane III portfolio, and taxpayers might want to pay attention…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is trying to do what it can to keep Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), and whatever other competitors it has at bay. Today came the first new…
Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) is supposed to be a winner in the war for Chinese internet search. But that is not going to put it in good company if the growth of China keeps…
Jon OggThe Euro is not just back above $1.25 in mid-day trading after the European stock markets have closed for the day… It is approaching $1.26 and the implied market chatter (which we call…
Tropical Storm Isaac is expected to be Hurricane Isaac early next week as it approaches the United States. While this has listed a bit more to the west in direction since the projections by…
Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) is leading the Dow Jones Industrial Average lower this morning after its shares are being hit due to an order cancellation by Australia’s Qantas Airways. The order was supposed to…
What austerity measures affecting military spending? That is what Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE: OSK) may be asking. The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded the Oshkosh Defense unit a contract for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program’s…
The S&P 500 hit a new 52-week high earlier this week and it has been drifting lower since. Today we are tracking the daily buy/sell points on the SPDR S&P 500 (NYSEMKT: SPY) as…
Jon OggRosetta Genomics, Ltd. (NASDAQ: ROSG) has had a stellar week so far, and things are looking even better for what had been a battered microRNA-based molecular diagnostic test-maker. Dow Jones reported that a…
The Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims. Today’s report came to 372,000 and that was a gain of 4,000 after last week’s report was revised higher to 368,000 from…
The Labor Department is out with its report on weekly jobless claims. Today’s report came to 372,000 and that was a gain of 4,000 after last week’s report was revised higher to 368,000 from…
Jon OggThese are the top analyst calls of upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. ADTRAN Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse. AllianceBernstein (NYSE:…