Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) Started as Outperform at Baird.…
Jon OggThese are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated Overweight at JPMorgan; Reiterated Outperform…
Moody’s (NYSE: MCO) cuts Italy’s debt rating. (Reuters) Bernanke says the U.S. economy is close to the flat line. (Reuters) New Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 4S does not impress investors. (Reuters) Boehner…
World stock markets hit 15-month lows. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) to launch the iPhone 5 as competition grows from Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android. (Reuters) China warns of a trade war if Congress…
Last April Dish Network Corp. (NASDAQ: DISH) paid $320 million to acquire Blockbuster Inc. out of bankruptcy. Speculation at the time suggested that Dish would enter the streaming video and DVD-by-mail market…
The DJIA (NYSE: DIA) was trading down 500 points today before a late-day rally. More European concerns and serious slowing in China’s manufacturing data only brought on more selling. The week before…
What a difference a couple of months can make. Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) has gone from the hottest controversial stock in the market to a controversial stock in trouble, and the drop…
The bidding process for the online television service Hulu has taken a strange path. The bidding has been delayed to the end of this week. It sure seems as though there is…
The day that many feared for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has arrived. Steve Jobs is formally leaving Apple as CEO. He has requested to still serve as Chairman of the Board, director,…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Aeropostale, Inc. (NYSE: ARO) Raised to Hold at Jefferies. Agrium Inc.…
We have many shares moving in the after-hours session this Tuesday evening. Not all are earnings, but keep in mind that this was on the heels of a 400+ point rally in…
The market has brutalized many great companies and we are seeing the mayhem reach a cycle-peak in the VIX if the history of the market holds up after hitting 48.0 yesterday during…
Earnings season is still going strong, but we are now getting into the late-cycle companies which have a one-month lag to their earnings reports. Several key stocks are due this next week…
Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) has been hurt by high commodities prices. Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) damaged by drop in PC sales worldwide. The Flame Index started as a research tool…
There has been enough good news about News Corp in the last two days that the stock appears headed back to the level where it traded before the phone hacking scandal caused…
