These are some of this Monday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms: Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) Cut to Market Weight at FBR. AEGON NV (NYSE: AEG)…
The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) and Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: AIB) are back out of favor. After huge gains off their recent lows, the Irish banks are lower again this morning following…
Lowe’s Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) managed to post a 10% gain in profits after its same-store sales in the last quarter rose 1.6%. Net income rose to $832 million, which generated $0.58 EPS and…
There are several key stocks to watch this coming week in The Unusual Suspects. We are watching for moves and events in the stocks of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Ameristar Casinos Inc. (NASDAQ: ASCA),…
Earnings season isn’t quite over yet. We still have some rather large, some giant, earnings on deck next week. We have an earnings duel between The Lowe’s Companies (NYSE: LOW) and The Home Depot,…
At a Town Hall meeting in Lincoln, Nebraska, Kansas City Fed president Thomas Hoenig is out with a speech called HARD CHOICES. Hoenig is calling again for the end of the zero-rate policy by…
Ambac Financial Group Inc. (NYSE: ABK) is likely soon to be the latest of the financial implosion stocks unless some magical event occurs outside of the company. After the financial guaranty company’s earnings report…
2010 has had a very mixed fanfare when it comes to the IPO market. Investors have followed IPOs with a passion on and off since the 1900’s when technology, biotech and internet wonders reached…
The Blackstone Group, L.P. (NYSE: BX) has agreed to purchase electricity generator Dynegy Inc. (NYSE: DYN). Blackstone will pay $4.50/share in cash, for a total of about $543 million, and assume Dynegy’s existing debt.…
This is one of those situations you could have likely expected, particularly since the defendant had already said a settlement was possible. While this appears to be a settlement, it is actually a license…
Friday the 13th is not making the day trader and active trader alerts go away. There are many stocks on the move this morning, some on earnings and some on other news. We are…
Analysts have very selective calls this Friday the 13th. Some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls are as follows: Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM) Cut to…
IBM is buying another company. International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) announced the acquisition of a company called Unica Corporation (NASDAQ: UNCA) early this Friday. The deal may sound small at a mere $480…
Investors usually flock to defensive stock names during a bear market or when they are concerned that the market may not run much more. Whether this is becoming a bear market or a bull…
Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT) just reported its first earnings report as a public company. The prepaid financial services company reported a 48% jump up in Non-GAAP operating revenues to $92.8 million, followed by…
Give taxpayers a shot at GM’s IPO shares! That is, assuming anyone wants the shares. There has been an interesting development of late in the General Motors public offering. It revolves making shares of…
The governor of Texas and the state’s Land Commissioner have filed suit in federal court in Houston that would block the second attempt by the federal government to impose a six-month ban on deepwater…
Investors would much rather see insiders of companies buying up stock rather than selling it. That is particularly true in a stocks like MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR) where the situation has been…
CIA World FactbookMakeMyTrip Ltd. (NASDAQ: MMYT) just became the best IPO of 2010 today. Whether that status holds is something not yet known, but the IPO priced at the higher-end of its range and…
General Motors has already reported earnings and is due to file its paperwork with the SEC soon for its upcoming IPO. But things just got complicated. General Motors announced that Ed Whitacre is stepping…