ThinkstockWells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) has delivered on what we expect to be the first of the likely big bank dividend hikes in 2013. We would look for J.P. Morgan Chase…
courtesy of NetflixU.S. investigations of the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner focus on its main battery. (Reuters) Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) offers a weak outlook for future quarters. (Reuters) China’s gross…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following the report that new claims for unemployment benefits had fallen by 37,000 to a level not seen since 2008 (more coverage here). The government…
ThinkstockThe banking sector has by and large traded at a discount to its stated book value for quite some time. Many banks are still trading under their tangible book value, meaning that…
ThinkstockCitigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) shared its fourth-quarter and full-year 2012 results before markets opened this morning. The bank reported adjusted diluted quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of $0.69 on revenues of $18.66…
Brian Katt / Wikimedia Commons / GNU Free Documentation LicenseBank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2012 results before markets opened this morning. The mega-bank reported diluted quarterly earnings…
Paul Ausick courtesy of DellOK, so the buyout of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) may not be as much hype as the market was originally thinking. Buying a company for more than $20 billion is no…
ThinkstockWith banks having been the best DJIA sector in 2012, the outlook versus the valuation has started to play a game of catch-up as we are getting deeper into earnings season this…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Each January, 24/7 Wall St. forecasts the publicly traded U.S. companies that will have the highest profits in the year ahead. This year, Apple almost certainly will keep first place,…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThis coming week is going to be the real opening of the floodgates when it comes to earnings season. 24/7 Wall St. has screened through dozens and dozens…
ThinkstockWells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is set to report earnings early on Friday morning. We voted this bank as the safest of the money-center banks before and that still stands. This…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research firms this Wednesday. AFLAC Inc. (NYSE: AFL) started as Hold at Deutsche Bank. Bank of…
ThinkstockCredit Suisse (NYSE: CS) downgraded its rating on Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) due to valuation after such a monumental rise. After all, the bank was the top-performing DJIA stock of…
The Merrill Lynch research team at Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is out with its key RIC report for 2013, which is titled “2013: Back to the Future” for the start…
courtesy of AOL, IncSamsung’s profits reach $8.3 billion, much of it due to the success of its Galaxy product line. (Reuters) Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) launches a series of low-powered chips for…
