These are some of this Friday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. EchoStar Corp. (NASDAQ: SATS) Raised to Buy at Citigroup. First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) Cut to…
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) looked like a decent report, but there is a sell-the-news reaction taking place in the after-hours trading session. The solar giant posted 16% higher earnings of $2.04 EPS versus…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) came out with its earnings after the close (only on the website, no press release). This was record revenues for its first quarter of up about 25% to $16.20 billion. …
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) disclosed many things in the 2010 Annual Report filing last night. The most important was the warning about its gross margin coming in lower for the next quarter at about…
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan (NYSE: POT) is a company we feared would not really trade around its earnings and guidance. The real news is still its pending offer from BHP Billiton plc (NYSE: BHP),…
24/7 Wall St. maintains a proprietary list of stocks, The 24/7 Wall St. Real-Time 500. This is more representative than the S&P 500 based on free-float market caps each year and updates much more…
Van Eck Global has a history of launching niche ETF products. Today’s launch of Market Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF (NYSE: REMX) is no exception. This new ETF is the first ETF for US…
Day rates for crude oil supertankers, VLCCs, peaked in 2009 at around $100,000/day. Today, if you want to ship 2 million barrels of oil from the Middle East to Korea, you’d have to pay…
American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) has recently disclosed that CEO Bob Benmosche has cancer, and last night the company announced a succession plan in case it is needed. What is more important is…
The weekly jobless claims data from the Labor Department managed to show a positive trend this morning. Claims actually fell by 21,000 down to 434,000 for the week. Bloomberg had consensus at 455,000. This…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Tuesday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Akamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Agnico-Eagle Mines…
These are some of this Thursday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) Raised to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus. ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) Cut to…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is trading lower in the after-hours period after its annual report was filed with the SEC after the close of trading today. The drop is due to ongoing margin pressures. …
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is expected to report earnings on Thursday after the close. We had already questioned the company’s ability to reconcile its books because it seems that the earnings release dates are…
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) may have just accidentally become more like the Yellow Pages in a new local search effort. Google is set to launch Places, which gives more information online about local businesses…
Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is surging today along with some rare earth companies. Today’s news is not that China is lowering rare earth oxides and rare earth elements, it is that an ETF for…
Maybe the worst is over for Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC). Maybe. The fears of mortgage put-backs and lawsuits over mortgage disclosures and the ongoing foreclosure halt has created what many feel may…
Maybe the worst is over for Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC). Maybe. The fears of mortgage put-backs and lawsuits over mortgage disclosures and the ongoing foreclosure halt has created what many feel may…
It has been a week since E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) reported earnings. We have also seen earnings this week from TD AMERITRADE Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: AMTD), and The Charles Schwab Corporation (NYSE: SCHW)…
The third largest wireless phone company in the US, Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S) continues to add customers, but they must not be paying their bills. The company reported a third-quarter EPS loss of -$0.30…