Stern Agee’s Ben Elias continues to see a good 2012 for General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE). The firm sees a two punch combination leading to 2012 outperformance: shrink GE Capital and expand…
Jon C. Ogg As each new year replaces the prior year, 24/7 Wall St. looks at the individual targets on all 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average price targets from Wall Street analysts to come up…
The lineup of the Dogs of the Dow, simply the ten highest dividend yield stocks of the thirty Dow Jones Industrial Average components, appears to be undergoing a bit of change for…
Obama nominates Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell to take seats at the Federal Reserve. (Reuters) New York Times (NYSE: NYT) sells its regional media group for $143 million. (Reuters) The U.S. Treasury…
The GE Capital arm of General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has struck a deal MetLife Inc. (NYSE: MET) to buy MetLife’s online retail banking group called MetLife Bank. Financial terms of the…
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is in the news with an acquisition of depository assets from MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) which some may fear is taking it back to being more and…
Struggling thin-film solar PV maker First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has seen its stock price fall by about -75% this year, and its enterprise value fall by nearly -90%. But the company…
Throughout December we have been giving updates on dividends that will rise in the coming days and weeks from the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks. Many have already come true and…
German conglomerate Siemens AG (NYSE: SI) recently formed a new division, Siemens Government Technologies, to focus on sales to the US government. The new division now has a new chairman, retired US…
Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings Corp. has agreed to acquire medical equipment maker SonoSite Inc. (NASDAQ: SONO) for $995 million, including debt. The offer is $54/share, a premium of about 28% over SonoSite’s closing…
Paul Ausick Equity markets started the day down and stayed there all day. Traders were mirroring the action on European and Asian markets, which all settled down before the US markets opened this morning.…
Stern Agee is remaining very positive on General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) after the conglomerate’s 2012 outlook was offered up. Ben Elias, the analyst covering the company, noted that the company’s industrial growth…
Jon C. Ogg Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) Cut to Hold at Stifel Nicolaus.…
A CME (NASDAQ: CME) executive says Jon Corzine knew about money that MF Global transferred to European accounts. (Reuters) Accounting problems at Olympus may make it a takeover target. (Reuters) Italian bond yields hit…
Equity markets opened higher this morning as an agreement on dealing with the Eurozone’s debt crisis boosted markets. Shares climbed during the day, recovering some of the losses in yesterday’s bear market.…
