These are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Genzyme Corporation (NASDAQ: GENZ) Cut to Market Perform at Leerink Swann. IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS) Started…
Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) had its annual meeting of shareholders today. The still relatively new CEO Carol Bartz says she wants to improve the company’s margins to build shareholder value. She has also addressed…
BP plc (NYSE: BP) gave another black eye to shareholders. All the bottom fishers are finding out that they are really just bottom sniffers. BP’s ADRs hit new 52-week lows today and shares are…
Dow component Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) and Lowe’s Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) probably would have been soft today with or without an analyst downgrade. The housing data is not compelling enough to interest…
24/7 Wall Street keeps a list of America’s biggest companies by market capitalization rates in its own proprietary Real-Time 500. The issue worth consideration here may seem rhetorical, yet it is almost hard to…
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) has announced that it has acquired RedLaser, company which has a play around the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone. RedLaser is a ‘popular’ barcode scanning application for iPhone. The RedLaser…
As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee under Ben Bernanke has voted to leave the Fed Funds Rate unchanged at the Target of 0.00% to 0.25%. The vote was 9 to 1 against a…
Being an income-oriented investor in chase of dividends and chasing returns of capital has driven many investors to Master Limited Partnerships, or MLPs, over the years. With Treasuries paying next to nothing for short-term…
The Department of Energy released its weekly Crude Oil and energy inventories this morning. Some real surprises were seen considering the time of year we are in and the mess in the Gulf of…
Petroleo Brasileiro SA (NYSE: PBR), or Petrobras, is delaying its monster offering. Reports from Brazil say its huge $25 billion share sale is now expected to take place in September rather than July as…
There are many stocks on the move on news for day traders and active traders this morning including Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE), BP plc (NYSE: BP), CarMax Inc. (NYSE: KMX), Chimera Investment Corporation…
These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan. Dr. Pepper Snapple Group,…
Many stocks are on the move this morning, only a few of which are on earnings, and the moves feel a bit odd this morning compared to many other days. BP plc (NYSE: BP),…
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Aircastle Ltd. (NYSE: AYR) Started as Outperform at Wells Fargo. Ariba Inc. (NASDAQ: ARBA)…
A week ago marked a change in my personal technology… I bought an Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad. This is my first ever Apple device purchase. The iPad is an entertainment device that allows…
PetSmart, Inc. (NASDAQ: PETM) must be doing very well despite the renewed uncertainty out there. The pet specialty store destination just raised its dividend by 25% to $0.125 per quarter from a prior quarterly…
Some have said that if it moves, it can be taxed. But based upon what we have seen over the last decade, if it moves you can also create a financial futures contract around…
There are several stocks on the move this morning. Aeterna Zentaris Inc. (NASDAQ: AEZS) announced positive study data for its growth hormone treatment. Shares are up almost 7% at $1.26 on over 75,000 shares…
These are some of this Monday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Affymetrix Inc. (NASDAQ: AFFX) Cut to Underweight at Piper Jaffray. The Andersons, Inc. (NASDAQ:…
Restructuring never ends in many large corporations. After a week’s worth of reading through dozens of corporate deals in the pipeline and analyzing others which could be close, it seems that many of America’s…