These are some of the top analyst calls seen so far this Friday morning from the upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street firms: Aixtron AG (NASDAQ: AIXG) Cut to Hold at Canaccord Adams.…
These are this Thursday’s top day trader and active trader alerts: Akamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) rose after its Q1 profit rose 10% and announced a $150 million add-on to its stock buyback plan.…
These are ten of the top analyst calls seen so far this Thursday morning from the upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street firms: AFLAC Inc. (NYSE: AFL) Raised to Strong Buy at Raymond…
Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) may have enough votes lined up for its takeover by Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), or it may not. With Bono’s Elevation Partners and insiders having large stakes and all the bottom…
Hell may have frozen over in the world of oil and gas. Shares of oil refinery companies seem to have finally turned a corner. In this aspect, we would be watching Valero Energy Corp.…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) held its 2010 annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday in Houston. 24/7 Wall St. was given a private interview with Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of GE, before the start…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) is the first to take a bite into Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM). Shortly after today’s closing bell, H-P and Palm said they entered into a definitive agreement where HP will acquire…
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) has become nothing short of a battleground stock with many in favor and many getting very questionable. It has a cult following and a momentum following in the investing public,…
Like oil refiners everywhere, China Petroleum and Chemical Co. (NYSE:SNP), better known as Sinopec, had a tough year in 2009. The company’s revenues were down nearly 7%, but EPS was up more than double…
As you expected, no rate hike came from the two-day FOMC meeting today at 2:15 PM EST. The target Fed Funds Rate was kept at the same 0.00% to 0.25% that has been the…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has held its annual shareholder meeting today. With at least a bit of a surprise on our part, there was no formal action announced on the dividend. Not yet. …
The economy is getting better. People are spending more money. Retail saw a giant March and is expected to have another great same-store sales figure on an individual basis for April. Right? Somehow, that…
Standard & Poor’s just hit the brakes on the markets, a day after cutting Greece and Portugal. The PIIGS are taking another toll, with the cut today being the long-term rating of the Sovereign…
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is lower this morning on several issues. A soft tape is one, a small chip acquisition is another, but the company now has a Taiwanese company called Elan Microelectronics filing…
These are ten of the top analyst calls seen so far this Tuesday morning from the upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street firms: ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH) targets raised at Nomura and…
If you have watched the tone, reaction, expressions, and pointed questions today from the Senate Hearing on Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS), how you interpret the whole stance of the issues under discussion…
Earnings season has taken out some of the sting from biotech and biohealth trading reactions. Today’s version of the BioHealth Business Daily is showing news and moves seen in Charles River Laboratories International, Inc.…
Morningstar has issued a report this week for oil services operations calling the opportunity in Iraq as “one of the greatest capacity increases in the industry’s history.” The analysis says that the recent Iraqi…
We have several big movers this morning in our day trader and active trader alerts. Two current favorites… Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is down 1% ahead of the CEO testimony; Apple Inc.…
These are ten of the top analyst calls seen so far this Tuesday morning from the upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street firms: American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) Cut to Underperform with…