These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Friday morning. Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) Cut to Underperform as Bear of the Day at…
Alcatel-LucentAlcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU) is surging after earnings. Amazingly enough, the short sellers greatly lightened up in the new data that came out of the NYSE last night. There was a drop of about 40%…
Melco Crown Entertainment Limited (NASDAQ: MPEL) may be headed back toward $20.00. After its earnings report, Citigroup has raised its price target to $21.00 from $19.40 and still has a solid “Buy” rating on the…
Imperial Sugar Co. (NASDAQ: IPSU) is still down and out, and it still has a credibility gap after the stock tour and quick sell-off aftermath last year. It was a real downer, down to…
Investors are looking for yield, but many investors and speculators are betting against the highest dividend yield sectors. There are perhaps no higher dividends to be had than in the mortgage REIT sector with…
CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) is going to make it cheaper for traders to trade energy and metals futures, something which could make it easier and cheaper for traders, speculators, and investors to push…
Rare Element Resources Ltd. (Amex: REE) is hardly an earnings story in the controversial and fluid story of rare earth elements and minerals. The emerging-stage company showed that the loss widened out to -$10.1…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has announced a settlement with the New York Attorney General that will terminate the lawsuit alleging violation of U.S. and state antitrust laws filed in late-2009 by the New York Attorney…
LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) is out with its year-end and fourth quarter earnings report. The company earned $6.9 million or $0.12 per share on non-GAAP on sales of $167.7 million. Thomson Reuters had non-GAAP…
PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) had decent earnings but came in with layoffs today. Shares shares have not reacted well with a drop of 3.7% to $64.28, but now there is something else for investors…
Solar stocks are on fire. Still, they are so far down from a year ago that celebrating the move it difficult to do. To show just how powerful this move up and down and up…
China is supposed to be the land of opportunity for companies banking on the growth of the Chinese consumer marketplace. If more prosperity is coming to a large portion of well over one billion…
Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: OXY) has just raised its dividend to be a bit more competitive against Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) with a 2.2% yield and against Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) with a…
The risk-on environment and the pressure to find yield elsewhere has probably not given much help for the success of the 30-Year Treasury Bond auction. The yield went off at 3.24% for the 3.125%…
Stocks which are trading under $5.00 per share (or even $10.00) are often referred to as being no better than stock options already. So what happens when you witness elevated options trading in a…
Sirius XMSIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is always a gamble around earnings because of its massive share count and low price making each penny in earnings per share seem more difficult. The biggest…
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) presented a much better earnings report last night than what many analysts were expecting. It is also clearly being successful with its restructuring program and in its effort to…
Eastman Kodak Company (EKDKQ) is showing the ‘in with the new’ model it wants to operate in. Frankly, this implosion as a future turnaround just doesn’t seem much better in bankruptcy compared to before…
It is a bit surprising that First Trust ISE Cloud Computing (NASDAQ: SKYY) is not trading higher than it is after a ‘cloud acquisition’ even if it is a thinly traded ETF compared to…
Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND) is now an at-risk company. The fears about the audit committee’s findings are as bad or worse than what the skeptics were expecting, and the news just shows that…