Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (NYSE: CRL) Started as Hold at Citigroup.…
Tonight’s speech from President Obama started out great and offered great promise. The Republicans and the Democrats are likely going to be further apart tomorrow than they were before. The problem is that this…
The Federal Reserve has released its reading on consumer credit with an increase for July showing an annual growth rate of 6%. What Ben Bernanke keeps talking about is lower household spending and that…
The highly awaited speech from Fed Head Ben Bernanke at the Economic Club of Minnesota is out, preempting the President Obama speech this evening. What is interesting is that the speech has much of…
Yahoo.comShares of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) got a nice boost yesterday on the news that the company’s CEO had been fired. But all good things must end, and that’s what is happening yesterday as…
OpenTable, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPEN) is coming under more fire. The stock had already sold off significantly since May, but the news that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is buying Zagat is a direct target at…
The refining business has been in the news a lot recently for two things. One, it’s making money again. Two, integrated oil companies are shedding refining assets at a rapid pace. Now’s a good…
lululemonLululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ: LULU) was one hot stock. A report from Credit Suisse shows very positive metrics for the company with high growth rates to continue for 5 years. The problem is that…
Just a few months before Air India merged with Indian Air in early 2007, each carrier placed significant orders with Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) and Airbus maker European Aeronautic Defense & Space Co. (OTC:…
To say that Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is under pressure remains the understatement of 2011. The DJIA industrial average component is under attack from every angle. It is now under attack from…
The count is growing… Weekly jobless claims as a figure is still headed the wrong way and still above that awful 400,000 line. The Labor Department reported that jobless claims in the last week…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) Started as Outperform at BMO. Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc.…
The US Department of Energy has issued a conditional commitment for a partial guarantee of a $344 million loan for solar PV installer SolarCity. The company will install rooftop solar PV systems on as…
Interest rates have been busy hitting life-time lows, but the irony is that fewer and fewer Americans are able to take advantage of this situation. The most recent report from the Mortgage Bankers Association…
VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) is up a second day in a row on strong volume after the company has cancelled two investor presentations.�� The hope is that there is some M&A development brewing as…
US rare earths miner Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) has had its ups and downs since going public in July of last year. Mostly ups, of course, though the current price is off the high…
Hurricane Irene lightened up before hitting the northern half of the Eastern Seaboard. Hurricane Katia was originally looking to be a real threat to much of the same areas as Irene hit, but it…
Recent reports from North Dakota illustrate just how much demand there is for workers in the Bakken oil and gas fields. Unemployed workers have relatively little trouble finding jobs there, whether on the rigs…
The Pickens Plan is getting one more round of formal support, well indirect support at any rate. Westport Innovations Inc. (NASDAQ: WPRT) was halted ahead of news that it and Shell, under Royal Dutch…
The U.S. Labor Department has some data which may be a bit difficult to understand when you see unemployment is staying above 9% and when no new net non-farm payrolls were added for the…