These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Altera Corp. (NASDAQ: ALTR) Maintained Neutral and $32 target at Gleacher. Arkansas Best Corp.…
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has made many changes in portfolio investing approach through time. The one constant is his ‘forever’ strategy, which now only means a bit more than multi-year…
The cast of characters in this week’s Unusual Suspects is not any ordinary group of companies. There are many key stocks to watch for investors that have carryover issues from last week or which…
Perhaps the biggest news of the week was that JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) was closing down its proprietary trading operations. The ramifications were taken out of context. On the surface, the news…
There is a rather interesting IPO filing this morning from Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies, Inc. Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) is the controlling shareholder and is going to be offering shares along with the…
Brazil’s Petroleo Brasileiro (NYSE: PBR), better known as Petrobras, has agreed to pay the Brazilian government $42.5 billion for the rights to produce 5 billion barrels of oil from government-owned fields offshore off Brazil.…
After a long period of unemployment, any upside to the jobs numbers at any point offers a helping hand to the stocks of companies that revolve around the jobs market. That is payroll services,…
The official unemployment rate for August is out from the Labor Department and the unemployment rate grew 0.1% to 9.6% as expected. The total non-Farm payrolls was -54,000 in August, but the private sector…
Many stocks are on the move this Friday morning. Active traders and day traders are likely to be watching the moves seen in Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC), Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD),…
These are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes this morning: Burger King Holdings Inc. (NYSE: BKC) Cut to Neutral at Piper Jaffray. Collective Brands,…
Retailers are reporting August same-store sales numbers today, and on the whole the reports are positive after a very cautious and dismal July. August is prime back-to-school shopping time, the retailers second-largest season of…
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) does not deserve what is happening to it, or at least it does not deserve the secondary and tertiary damage that could be caused by those who are hellbent on…
There are several stocks on the move that will be the focus of active traders and day traders on Thursday morning. The stocks on the move are Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BRCD), Burger…
These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (NASDAQ: AMCC) Cut to Sell at S&P Equity Research (late Wednesday call).…
The Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank, has published its 17th annual survey of CEO compensation, noting, among other things, that CEOs of the 50 firms that have laid off the most…
Buybacks may not be considered the best return of capital by many investors and market pundits, but they are M&A-alternatives for management of companies. The amount of share buybacks announced in August was a…
Many stocks are on the move this Wednesday morning. Active traders and day traders are likely to be watching the moves seen in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Burger King Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BKC), LM…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes this Wednesday morning: Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) Raised to Overweight at HSBC. Blue Coat Systems Inc.…
The U.S. Census Bureau has disclosed the endless spending and obligations of the federal domestic spending programs. The numbers for spending increases during 2009 are mind-boggling. Federal domestic spending rose a massive 16% in…
So far it has only been Kansas City Fed President Hoenig who has dissented against the policy of no or low rates. There may not be a direct change on that stance, but some…