Add one more to the litany of pharmaceutical company mergers that are being made to avoid U.S. taxes. Mylan's existing business with part of Abbott's generic drug business.
The Department of Defense awarded $10.46 billion in defense contracts Tuesday. The winning defense contractors included included Olin Corp., Boeing, and General Dynamics. The non-defense related companies included Ibis Biosciences, Kellogg, Brown…
These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Monday, May 19, 2014. They include Altria, CenturyLink, Micron, GoGo and AT&T.
Shares of Target took a hit of around 3% Monday morning following the resignation/firing of CEO Gregg Steinhafel. The interim CEO and chairman do not seem like serious candidates for the job.
ThinkstockThe intense analysis of quantitative managers may seem like drudgery, but it can turn up absolute gems for investors looking for solid long ideas. In fact, firms like RBC use as much…
Baxter International is taking an activist investor role of its own. The health care company has announced that it is splitting itself into two separate companies.
The Jefferies "Franchise" stock picks for 2014 are an eclectic group that may offer investors some ideas that are not highly touted on Wall Street. If the Jefferies team is right, these…
These are the top analyst upgrades, initiations and positive analyst research calls seen from Wall Street on Monday, January 6.
ThinkstockHealth care has been a top sector for investors this year. The research team at Oppenheimer continues to believe that health care remains well positioned to deliver further market-topping returns in 2014.…
ThinkstockWhen the markets go through periods of great gains, it is not uncommon to see companies start to take more radical efforts to increase their total return for shareholders. Some may go…
Courtesy of Abbott LaboratoriesWith many of the companies in the S&P 500 having margins approaching all-time highs, and implied S&P 500 correlations approaching post-crisis lows, it is becoming harder to make a…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsWith the equity markets seemingly hitting new all-time highs every day, we were intrigued by the makeup of the new UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) Equity Focus List. The…
ThinkstockThe U.K.’s royal family is wealthy, but likely not wealthy enough to pass up sponsorships as the heir to the thrown is born to Kate, the wife to Prince William. Or, perhaps…
ThinkstockFollowing last month’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting, the euro-U.S. dollar exchange rate (EURUSD) fell to just over 80. Less than a month later the EURUSD came within a few ticks of…
July 17, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning and managed to hold onto a decent gain following a day of ups and downs as Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke testified before…
