Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Friday morning. BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) Cut to Neutral at Citigroup. EMC Corporation…
Martin Midstream Partners LP (NASDAQ: MMLP) is now going to sell 2.3 million common units (LP share-equivalents) in a secondary offering. The company listed that the proceeds will be used to pay debt that is…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is set to report earnings on Friday morning of $0.38 EPS on revenues of almost $40.2 billion. If the stock’s performance is any barometer, let’s just say that expectations…
Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB) will be the first of the oil services giants to report earnings for this earnings season when the company reports on Friday morning. Needless to say, but we will be…
ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZIOP) is managing to hammer its shareholders in the after-hours session. The company plans to commence an underwritten public secondary offering of its common stock. The good news is that the…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has posted its earnings after the close and the tempering of estimates before earnings seems to have been more or less the right call. The software giant’s second quarter earnings…
International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) is out with earnings which are not excessively positive. Big Blue has a new CEO and may have Warren Buffett behind it, but shares were down about 10%…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is out with earnings for its fourth quarter. The internet search giant reported earnings of $8.22 EPS (but $9.50 EPS adjusted) and $8.13 billion in revenues. Thomson Reuters had estimates…
Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (NYSE: FDO) is showing just how a secular trend is still going to rule the roost in retail. It was Dollar Tree, Inc. (NASDAQ: DLTR) hitting new all-time highs yesterday,…
The Medco Health Solutions Inc. (NYSE: MHS) and Express Scripts Inc. (NASDAQ: ESRX) merger saga is one which may go down in the financial history books for one of the more long and drawn…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is set to report earnings after the close of trading Thursday. The software giant has already tempered some PC sales expectations at the Consumer Electronics Show, which was basically taken…
International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) is set to report earnings after the close and this is going to filter down all the way through the world of IT consulting and many hardware players. …
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is set to report earnings after the close on Thursday at a time that is after its major earnings warning last month but at a time where many other chip…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is one that is a bit hard to call right before earnings because shares just bounced after coming off of new highs so hard. The change is likely to flux…
Hedge funds, banks, brokerage firms, private equity, and just about every other investing or trading class has been quick to deny market chatter that there is excessive Greek exposure to the firm. That doesn’t…
2012 may seem like a resurgence of the banking sector is afoot, but what about the resurgence of the U.S. auto industry. The age of the consumer fleet is at a record above 10…
Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is continuing to trade higher, despite a poor job of management and despite the notion that reality may get in the way of rumors. There remains an ongoing wave of…
The so-called “Philly Fed” reading is a current business barometer because it tracks the month of January rather than looking back at 2011 data. This economic measurement is issued by the Federal Reserve Bank…
Francesca’s Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: FRAN) is holding up rather well considering its news and considering that it has been public for less than six-months. Its lock-up expiration is approaching. The company owns and operates…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may have been hitting new all-time highs ahead of next week’s quarterly earnings report and its price target from analysts may have crept higher as well. There is a new…