Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) has kicked off earnings season. Expectations were not very high about the fourth quarter and expecting any great guidance seemed a bit misplaced if you have watched the…
Jon C. Ogg US markets opened up slightly this morning and have maintained a slight positive tone for most of the day. Today marks the unofficial beginning of another earnings season, with Alcoa kicking things…
US stock-index futures are nearly flat this morning as French and German leaders meet to iron out the details for a Eurozone growth plan. The US earnings season gets off to its…
Paul Ausick US companies will begin the critical earnings season as Alcoa (NYSE: AA)Â reports today. The profit and revenue data is particularly important. Q4 numbers come with full year figures, which gives investors a…
Douglas A. McIntyre Higher bond yields on Italian and Spanish 10-year notes and an announcement last night of a 12% reduction in production from Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) have kept European and Asian markets from…
Paul Ausick Former Olympus CEO Michael Woodford will sue the troubled company for wrongful dismissal. (Reuters) The International Monetary Fund’s Lagarde says 2012 will not see the end of the euro. (Reuters) MF Global’s trustee…
Alcoa (NYSE: AA) could possibly be the worst non-financial stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 30 components. At $9.50, only Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is down worse from a…
Jon C. Ogg At the start of each year, 24/7 Wall St. reviews and updates price targets looking for stocks which offer the most upside or the least upside for the year ahead. After looking…
As each new year replaces the prior year, 24/7 Wall St. looks at the individual targets on all 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average price targets from Wall Street analysts to come up…
The equity markets opened strong this morning, with the Dow trading in narrow band around 140 points up all morning until about 1:30 in the afternoon. Hopeful economic news from Europe started…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) Cut to Neutral from Buy at Goldman Sachs.…
24/7 Wall St. has shown a full breakdown of the 30 DJIA (NYSE: DIA) components showing which companies are going to raise dividend payments in 2012 or even sooner. Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE:…
The economic choppiness is coming to a head with the age of dividend hikes. The pressure is going to remain for companies to continue returning capital to shareholders while also looking for…
In mid-October, we took a look at target prices and implied gains among 11 metals and materials stocks. The companies we examined were United States Steel Corp. (NYSE: X), Nucor Corp. (NYSE:…
The economy remains in a climate with a very weak recovery. There is still some good news though. All of the recent calls for a “double dip recession” grew too loud and are now being…
