Discover Financial Services (NYSE: DFS) has managed to avoid getting crushed and its share price is actually much higher than it was before the recession. Shares are very close to an all-time…
Samsung will review 250 suppliers for labor violations. (Reuters) Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) will ask a court to review copyright damages against SAP A.G. (NYSE: SAP). (Reuters) Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) is likely…
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch is making some changes to one of its key lists called the Most Attractive Buy List. The basis for the change is a key bottom or big base…
The three major US stock indexes opened somewhat higher this morning following better-than-expected data on UK retail sales and an inline reading on Eurozone CPI (more coverage here). The news out of…
Jon OggThese are the top analyst calls of upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall St. research calls this Thursday morning. Abercrombie & Fitch Co.(NYSE: ANF) cut to Underperform at…
LinkedIn Corp.’s (NYSE: LNKD) business model is supposed to be better than that of most other tech IPOs in the past year. The company has three lines of revenue: hiring solutions, marketing solutions…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings showing that there have been some significant changes in the positions of the Berkshire…
The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning as investors continue to hope for more central bank stimulation in weakening global economy. These investors are probably right that something will…
Wednesday is going to mark yet another important day for the early wave of key earnings for this earnings season. The second quarter became more challenging for many companies as we noted…
The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning on reports of a new bailout for Spanish banks and a 24-basis point drop on 10-year Spanish bond yields (our coverage here).…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday. Advanced Micro Devices. Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Maintained Neutral and cut target to…
The display advertising industry, shaken by the falling prices it can get for its online ads, has taken to showing full-page marketing messages at websites. These blot out all of the content on website pages,…
American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) is showing why its customer base is said to be the best in the credit card industry as far as credit metrics are concerned. The gains of…
Jon C. Ogg The country’s largest financial institutions are having another good day today, despite the announcement by the European Central Bank (ECB) early this morning that it would not be lowering interest rates. Shares…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings for the Berkshire Hathaway empire. This cut off date is as of March 31,…
