Tuesday is going to be full of major earnings reports, two of which are DJIA components. These are not the only major earnings, but ten we will be watching closely are as follows: Amazon.com…
Gannett Co. (NYSE: GCI) is still one of the Warren Buffett media investments, but that is not helping the reaction from Wall Street to the Main Street newspaper (and media) player.The company reported a…
France is following trends of the IMF and other ratings agencies and cutting its growth targets for 2012. The nation’s prime minister has now lowered France’s 2012 growth forecast to 0.5% from 1% for…
Almost all investments rise and fall in price through time, and the same is true over the value of sports collectibles and baseball cards. The ‘investing’ rule in sports collectibles that has been true…
Vringo, Inc. (AMEX: VRNG) is seeing a large share gain on Monday after being touted online as a would-be Facebook beneficiary, although this one seems a bit odd as an outsider. The company recently…
GTX Inc. (NASDAQ: GTXI) is surging on what may feel a bit like a mystery or a Houdini rally. Apparently Citigroup has raised its target on the company, but the raise is a doubling of the…
Fiserv is out with the Case-Shiller Home Price Insights reading…. This one is being dubbed “Home Prices Reach New Low, but Stabilization and Recovery Are in Sight” The report shows that average U.S. home prices…
J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP) is starting to give back a little bit of last week’s big gains, but only a little. Zacks is maintaining a Neutral rating on the company and there…
The Talbots, Inc. (NYSE: TLB) is trading higher. Maybe it will result in a buyout or maybe it will end up as a closed activist pact. A noted this morning from an SEC Filing…
Personal income ticked higher in December, but spending failed to keep up. Is America starting to save again? The numbers were actually in-line with expectations and earlier released data. Personal income in December was…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Monday morning. Advanced Auto Parts Inc. (NYSE: AAP) Raised to Buy at Goldman…
The Pep Boys-Manny, Moe & Jack (NYSE: PBY) is being acquired. This should read “The long-lasting buyout rumors have finally come true” because this stock has been a rumored potential acquisition candidate for years.…
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) has come out with a set of upgrades in the bank and brokerage sector this morning. These are the sort of calls that when a firm in the…
Jon OggThis last week brought many new analyst calls in key stocks. At the end of each week we review research calls looking for the best gems, the calls that made serious money for…
The Federal Trade Commission is suing to block the merger between Omnicare, Inc. (NYSE: OCR) and Pharmerica Corporation (NYSE: PMC), where Omnicare is seeking to acquire the rival pharmacy provider PharMerica…. It makes you wonder how…
It may seem harmless enough and far less-bad than the dire warnings of Meredith Whitney on a simple glance… Fitch Ratings is taking the downgrade warnings cycle closer to home now. The State of Washington’s…
An SEC Filing came today for an initial public offing by a company called Three Rivers Operating Company Inc. Terms were not made available other than it would sell up to $300 million worth…
Clearwire Corporation (NASDAQ: CLWR) has closed upon the sale of that expensive financing we previously discussed. AN SEC filing showed that the company Clearwire Communications LLC subsidiary sold some $300 million of 14.75% first-priority…
Facebook is now rumored to be filing its IPO paperwork as soon as next week. The ‘rumor’ is coming out of a report from the Wall Street Journal that Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) and/or…
Fitch has joined in on the European sovereign credit rating downgrades. First it was S&P, but we might argue that this should have mostly been factored in already. Is it a secret that the…