The trend among short sellers for the last two months is that they gamble against shares in the weakest public companies. Perhaps they sense that an economic downturn or U.S. debt default…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. AMR Corporation (NYSE: AMR) Cut to Sell at Ticonderoga. Bank of…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated Outperform and $500 target at Credit…
Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) reported better than expected earnings and its shares soared (Reuters) Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) revenue fell (Reuters) A settlement of the debate over the U.S. debt pushed crude higher…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for July 19, 2011. These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) met earnings estimates this morning with its loss of -$0.90 EPS due to its multi-billion settlement announced at the end of June. The total loss is…
Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is back to being the worst of the worst of the Dow Jones Industrial Average components. Shares broke under $10.00 on Friday for the first time…
Next week will mark the true ‘opening the floodgates’ for earnings season. We have given some brief earnings previews and added in color for the DJIA components set to report earnings in…
Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) has just started the earnings season for the banks “for the rest of America” today. Vikram Pandit just turned in earnings at $1.09 EPS (up from $0.90 a…
When J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) beat earnings and gave a solid report on capital ratios, loan loss reserves, credit metrics, and even on its top-line revenues. This seems to…
The balance between a potential downgrade of US debt and strong bank results left the market without conviction. That leaves open the issue of whether the American debt cap and the flood…
Short sellers often invest in stocks that have had sharp short-term gains and may have reached peak valuations. That would put Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) on most of those lists, along with Sirius…
News Corp (NYSE: NWS) may face a bribery probe in the U.S. (Reuters) An Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) patent lawyer may leave the firm (Reuters) China bank lending picked up. This could cause…
Treasury officials examine ways to prevent default if an August 2 deadline to increase the debt cap is not met by Congress (Reuters) LaGarde will give a Chinese official a top job…
Banks object to plans that would allow regulators to clawback pay if a bank becomes troubled and has to be liquidated (Reuters) Geithner has not told The White House he wants to…
