Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) Raised to Outperform as Bull of the Day at…
Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is shrinking its empire, sort of. The company is spinning off its Orchard Supply Hardware Stores Corporation holdings to its shareholders. Sears holds effectively all of the Common Stock…
We have some major changes announced by S&P for its three key indexes. Changes are in the S&P 500 Index, S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index, and in the S&P SMall Cap 600 Index. Marathon Petroleum…
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) managed to beat earnings, but shares are lower on the report because Wall Street was not impressed. It reported $0.75 EPS on a 12% gain in sales with $10.78 billion…
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) shareholders had plenty of concerns even before Facebook announced that it was going to get into video delivery of selected movies. In a SWOT analysis, the Facebook issue always fell…
The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) was perhaps one of the largest secondary offerings out there of its sort. The tally was close to $6 billion when it was all said and done. We had…
Emerging markets are cumulatively supposed to make up a catch-all investment sector for investors seeking true growth in the next decade. If you have been watching the ticker tape of late, you will see…
West Texas Intermediate Crude is bleeding today now that the IEA has made a coordinated release of 60 million barrels of oil. Half of that will come from the United States and the rest…
Norway’s entry in the electric vehicle (EV) sweepstakes, Think (or sometimes, Th!nk) has filed for bankruptcy because the company has been unable to find long-term financing. The company, once owned by Ford Motor Co.…
Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) is actually trading up on a day that the broader market is down considerably. That always makes being critical sound a bit misplaced, but we are not looking at…
The markets are currently shaky and investors are looking for cover. While many seek defensive stocks and while many seek high dividends to offer equity exposure with some safety, one area that always attracts…
China has loosened up its regulations and will now allow banks to distribute foreign mutual funds later this year. Winners are expected to be Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) and HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE: HBC). …
The weekly jobless claims just keep offering no real support to the labor market. Data released by the U.S. Labor Department showed that the weekly jobless claims rose again. The prior week’s figure of…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) Reiterated Buy and Raised target to…
If Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO), Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI), Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD), and Molson Coors Brewing Company (NYSE: TAP) should keep an eye on efforts to legalize marijuana. The business of…
Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) is far from what most investors would consider a value stock, but like beauty a good deal is in the eye of the beholder. T2 Partners, a value and…
The FOMC already voted to keep rates at zero today, but now we have an economic outlook that has come out for what Ben Bernanke and friends see as the target economic data for…
One of the major caveats related to gold mining and gold prices has been the rising cost of production. Higher labor costs, higher energy costs, and lower grade ores have all contributed to boosting…
Ben Bernanke and the FOMC have voted unanimously to keep effective Fed Funds rates at an effective target of 0.00% to 0.25% and the discount rate at 0.75%. What investors need to care about…
In yesterday’s article about emerging market funds, we noted that three of the funds that track all or most of the stocks in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index could be affected by an upcoming…