Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) is holding a public secondary offering of 25 million shares which are being sold by private equity backers who still own a large part of the company. The king…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday. Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) Started as Buy at Stifel Nicolaus. Apollo Group Inc.…
Many investors cannot mentally buy high-priced shares. It was not really an accident that Warren Buffett split the A and B shares of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A). Logic and mental blocks aside, three key stocks…
Flickr, Images of MoneyWhat happened to all the reports about the bottom in the housing market? The number of pending home buyers who have signed contracts to buy a house fell in February. Data…
Canaccord Genuity is bringing up more caution in the LED sector this Monday. The analyst team is attributing recent strength due to restocking and double ordering. Canaccord’s rating call is cutting Aixtron SE (NASDAQ:…
The environment of ‘exceptionally low interest rates’ may help borrowers, but it has the unintended consequences of bringing real returns to zero or even negative if you consider the impact of inflation against nominal…
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is giving a speech at the National Association for Business Economics Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. titled simply “Recent Developments in the Labor Market.” Mr. Bernanke is talking about…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday. Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) Cut to Market Perform at Wells Fargo IntercontinentalExchange, Inc.…
BATS Global Markets, Inc. is facing the ultimate embarrassment over its initial public offering of its own exchange. While touting itself as an alternative to NASDAQ and to the NYSE. the exchange did not…
Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) is out with its weekly data on United States and Canadian oil and gas rigs for the last week. The trend is down for North America as the U.S.…
Peabody Energy Corporation (NYSE: BTU) is issuing an earnings warning, but not from the normal logic behind most warnings. The warning is said to be due to Australia weather-related events. The first quarter financial…
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has been one of the worst performing stocks out there over the last year. Michael Ahern is searching for a new CEO after a departure or termination of Rob…
Earnings season is all but over and only the tail end of the quarterly and off-calendar reporting outfits are still reporting earnings. Still, the coming week does have several key earnings reports coming down…
The housing data keeps coming in with a mixed fan-fare. The new home sales in America for the month of February fell 1.6% to 313,000 versus a Dow Jones consensus target of 325,000. January…
Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ: PLUG) is a company which we accused of plugging its shareholders on Thursday with the filing of a secondary offering to raise capital. In an underwritten public offering of 13,000,000…
Weight Watchers International Inc. (NYSE: WTW) managed a success with its dutch tender offer to repurchase shares out of the public float. The company now is going to repurchase about 12% of its outstanding…
Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: AMLN) and Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE: LLY) are in the news on the diabetes front. The companies have announced that the European Commission has now approved its Type-2 Diabetes…
ZyngaZynga Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) is doing something rather tacky this morning. The company has not been public for very long and it is already filing to sell shares for insiders. The online social gaming…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday. Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs. Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE:…
American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) has now converted its share structure to that of a real estate investment trust or a REIT. The cellphone tower operator and land owner has set its first quarterly…