JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ: JBLU) and Hawaiian Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HA) via Hawaiian Airlines have formed a partnership which will now allow passengers to fly on both carriers on a single ticket. This is…
American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) is a very different company from credit card rival Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF). At this point in time, both are suffering as the credit card sector improvements…
Sanchez Energy Corporation (NYSE: SN) has been a dismal Initial Public Offering stock, but now its quiet period is now expiring and the analysts at the underwriting firms get to issue their thoughts on a…
The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is being downgraded in a somewhat unusual call by the team at Zacks Investment Research. The old and already considered a bit cautious rating of Neutral was lowered…
Chesapeak Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) is winning by cutting. In an effort to match production supply with proper demand at a time when natural gas prices are so low, the natural gas player plans to…
National Bank of Greece (NYSE: NBG) is somehow managing to avoid what the headline news would dictate right now. The NBG stock (an ADR) has been under fire from the markets for longer than most…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Monday morning. Amgen Corporation (NASDAQ: AMGN) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan. Comerica Inc. (NYSE:…
The Active Network, Inc. (NYSE: ACTV) has been public less than one year and some insiders are partially cashing out. An SEC filing on Friday showed that a proposed share sale was being registered…
There is an interesting research report in shares of International Paper (NYSE: IP). A report from Zacks may have some impact on the company and also in shares of MeadWestvaco Corporation (NYSE: MWV) and Weyerhaeuser…
The coming week is going to be yet another action packed week of big corporate earnings which will move markets or will move their sectors. 24/7 Wall St. has identified the DJIA components reporting…
If you watch underwritings in stocks, it would be literally impossible not to pay attention to the waves of secondary stock offerings from companies in the last 48 hours. Some of the key secondary offerings…
Treehouse Foods, Inc. (NYSE: THS) is hard to imagine that things could be this bad. The food products manufacturing outfit makes many brands you are familiar with in grocery stores and it is even…
Junk bonds, or high-yield bonds are at a level that all income investors need to be paying attention to. After a big recovery in the sector and after the markets have gotten off to…
Ares Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: ARCC) is stinging existing shareholders this morning with a secondary offering. Ares Capital is a specialty finance company that provides one-stop financing solutions to U.S. middle market companies and private…
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is making a series of management changes today. While this is not the CEO level of the whole company, CEO Mike Duke noted, “Current Sam’s Club President and CEO…
Spirit Airlines, Inc. (NASDAQ: SAVE) has only been public since last summer and now the company has a secondary offering of stock. The company sold 11 million shares in a secondary offering at a price…
A123 Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: AONE) is raising capital to further its efforts in Nanophosphate lithium ion batteries and systems. The company has entered into a definitive agreement to sell 12.5 million shares directly to an institutional investor…
The public is getting to take yet one more bet on Sequenom Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) at a discount. The diagnostics company has never fully recovered from its Down’s Syndrome test blunders of the past…
Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP (NYSE: BWP) is planning to sell 8 million units in an effort for working capital and to repay debt. The oil-and-gas transportion MLP has listed Barclays Capital, BofA Merrill Lynch,…
Hercules Technology Growth Capital Inc. (NASDAQ: HTGC) is hammering shareholders after news that it plans to sell some 5 million shares in a secondary offering. The company earmarked the sale proceeds to be used…