An agreement in Greece is sending European shares higher in New York ADR trading this Monday morning. Is it real this time? And is it not just a temporary measure until the next Greek…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Monday morning. Abercrombie & Fitch Company (NYSE: ANF) Reiterated Buy with $70 target at…
CVR Energy Inc. (NYSE: CVI) has confirmed that it intends to sell part of its majority interest in CVR Partners LP (NYSE: UAN). The move is to assist the company in an effort to…
Earnings season is starting to slow down a bit but we will still have some sector-moving earnings reports from major companies. 24/7 Wall St. has prepared earnings previews for the following companies: Charles River Laboratories International…
Jon OggThis last week was very busy, and Friday’s disappointing trading day skewed many research reports. Each morning we track analyst upgrades and downgrades and over the weekend we review each to see which…
24/7 Wall St. has decided to calculate the total value of the Star Wars franchise ahead of the release of the 3D film “Star Wars: The Phantom Menace” and while its ‘Star Wars: The…
JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ: JBLU) showed that its sales data in January is heading in the right direction. The gains might not be enough for those who have been so skeptical of this and…
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is being pounded on news that Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC) is delaying a $1.36 billion purchase of a California solar farm from First Solar. For a sector which cannot…
Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) is out with its weekly rig counts. Both counts fell in the United States and in Canada, with the drops counted as being 8 rigs in the United States and 1…
AFLAC Incorporated (NYSE: AFL) is seeing elevated options trading today in the FEBRUARY 2012 Call options. When you see almost 20-times normal options trading volume, many imaginations can hit the mind. Rather than anything…
GSV Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: GSVC) is the business development company that already owns shares of Facebook, Twitter, and others. Now the company has announced that it has priced a follow-on offering of 6,000,000 shares of…
RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) is hardly trading up even after reports from Bloomberg have noted that RadioShack could become a takeover target. This is as short sellers have increased their activity betting against the…
The rule of the road when it comes to cars (particularly SUVs) and families is often a simple one if there is ever an accident or a problem… Big car wins. That generally means…
NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) is going to have to take a go-it-alone approach now that its merger with Deutsche Boerse has been blocked. As a fan of America and keeping certain American landmarks as…
Quicksilver Resources Inc. (NYSE: KWK) ha snot been all that successful if you just look at the stock alone. After a 4% drop today to $5.15, the 52-week range is $4.14 to $15.98. This…
American Electric Power Company (NYSE: AEP) is trying to show the all-clear sign and help to assure its dividend investors that it can still grow and can still keep paying out that great 4.8%…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been hitting new all-time highs of late, and analysts have been ratcheting up their price targets. We recently noted one analyst call for a $665 price target and now…
Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: HALO) has priced its secondary offering after having just filed for the offering the day before. The company is selling 6.8 million shares of common stock at a price of $10.61…
The Commerce Department has released its international trade data for the month of December. Why on earth this is not just called the Trade Deficit is a mystery. We have not had a single…
Standard & Poor’s may be doing something that feels insensitive, but how can you blame them after everything you have seen in the news. The credit ratings agency has downgraded Egypt. The long-term credit ratings…