Bye-Bye to AMR (AMR, AAR, AAMRQ)
AMR Corporation (NYSE: AMR) is now AMR Corporation (AAMRQ) and it was a stock we recently said was one of ten public stocks which would not survive 2012. That is happening today and it…
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Weekly Jobless Claims Only Somewhat Augment Giant ADP Figures Before Unemployment
After a sizzling hot figure from ADP on private sector jobs created, the weekly jobless claims from the U.S. Labor Department came in with a drop of 15,000 to 372,000 for the week. Bloomberg…
ADP Projects New Jobs Created Almost Twice That Expected
ADP’s most recent data shows that the private sector created a large number of jobs with a reading of +325,000 for the month. This sailed far past the Dow Jones figure of +175,000 that…
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AZN, BLK, BRCM, CEG, ED, EBAY, ERIC, EXC, GOOG, NFLX, NOK, PSUN, SOL, SAP, SNY, TRN, UPS, VVUS, VMW)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Thursday morning. AstraZeneca PLC (NYSE: AZN) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan. BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:…
SodaStream Jolted By Kraft Pact (SODA, KFT)
SodaStream International Ltd. (NASDAQ: SODA) has been a very controversial growth stock that went from red hot to burned out fad almost as fast as it started. Shares are surging on news that Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE:…
Rare Analyst Call… Nokia Upgrade (NOK, ERIC)
An analyst likes Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) despite every misstep and problem caused by better more well-heeled smartphone makers. Credit Suisse is out with an upgrade this morning that took that rating to Outperform…
Private Equity Value for Best Buy (BBY, GME, WMT, AMZN)
After losing about a third of its value in the last year, Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) may start to be thrown around as a private equity takeover name. A report from Bloomberg calls…
Seagate Shows HDD Market Fears Overstated With Raised Guidance (STX, WDC)
ThinkstockSeagate Technology PLC (NASDAQ: STX) has somehow managed to surprise the technology investing community with news that the revenue picture might not have been as bad as what Wall Street was pricing in from…
Sirius XM Growth Train Continues (SIRI)
Sirius XMSirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) managed to grow ahead of expectations. The company added some 1.7 million new subscribers in 2011 to end the year with almost 21.9 million subscribers. The report…
Prediction Market Results: Obama Versus Romney
Do Prediction Markets translate to the same sort of investing markets as the stock market? It depends upon whom you ask and we wanted to give an unbiased look at the current horse race…
United Tech May Be The Best DJIA Conglomerate Stock In 2012 (UTX, GE, MMM, GR)
United Technologies Corporation (NYSE: UTX) may actually be the best stock in 2012 out of the three conglomerates which are in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. While we have had a long-standing positive bias…
Getting Alcoa Shares Back Above $10… And Then Some (AA)
Alcoa (NYSE: AA) could possibly be the worst non-financial stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 30 components. At $9.50, only Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is down worse from a 52-week high…
Is Sears A Bankruptcy Candidate? (SHLD, WMT, TGT, OSH)
The long slow death march at Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is turning into a case study of what not do. Putting a hedge fund manager in charge of a huge retailer, and then letting…
Can Home Depot Maintain Its Stock Pace? (HD, LOW)
The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) was an incredible issue to watch during the fourth quarter of 2011. The stock managed to get back above $40.00 recently and somehow it managed to recover more…
Cabot… Winning from Splits, Dividends, Growth, and Jim Cramer (COG)
Cabot Oil & Gas (NYSE: COG) is running higher this morning on several bits of positive news. The company was just touted last night by CNBC market pundit Jim Cramer as a winner that…
Lulu Scores The Prized Conviction Buy (LULU)
Lululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) is surging on research news this Wednesday morning. Shares are up 5.5% at $49.64 on more than 2.5 million shares coming in only the first 70 minutes of trading…
Factory Orders Rise, Under Expectations
The report on U.S. factory orders from November is showing another month of gains, but at lower than expected readings. November’s gain was +1.8% against a Dow Jones consensus reading of +2.1%. If you…
Yahoo! Confirms New CEO (YHOO, EBAY, GOOG)
Yahoo.comYahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) has confirmed that it has appointed Scott Thompson as Chief Executive Officer. He will take over with an effective date of January 9, 2012. At that time, Tim Morse will…
Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (APKT, AFFX, AKS, AAPL, CCI, EMC, GD, GMCR, LMT, MOS, NTAP, OFG, POT, STLD, TIVO)
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Wednesday morning. Acme Packet, Inc. (NASDAQ: APKT) Cut to Neutral at Wedbush; estimates…
Tracking Dividends in Biotech: Who Follows Amgen in Payouts? (AMGN, PFE, MRK, BIIB, CELG, ALXN, CBST, PDLI, REGN, VRTX)
For several years it has been the case that Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) was considered a biotech though it had at least some of the same problems of Big Pharma players like Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE)…