ThinkstockIn an announcement of its annual investor conference today, Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW) said that it expects the retail market for LCD TV sets and other consumer electronics devices to improve in…
As corporate earnings are disappointing and as the economy remains very sluggish, companies are announcing big waves of layoffs. Some have said that the layoffs this time of year are seasonal, as…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher this morning following a better-than-expected PMI reading from China (more coverage here) that was mostly untempered by lower-than-expected PMI readings from Europe (more coverage…
Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW) may need to go back to its Glassworks name. The stock is proving to be as fragile as glass, and not its Gorilla Glass either. Unfortunately, even with…
Jon C. Ogg The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning and remained in negative territory all day. The decline is down to weak earnings from many U.S. firms reporting results today. In…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Wednesday. Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ACHN) raised to Buy from Underperform with $13 target…
Today’s issue of the “Closing Bell” is out early as we join many of you in an early start to the holiday weekend. Data in today’s report was compiled between 1 p.m.…
24/7 Wall St.’s list of the analyst calls most likely to move stocks as the market opens. Oppenheimer upgraded Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW) to Outperform with a $16 price target. Stifel Nicolaus cut…
The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning but by early afternoon all three had gotten stuck solidly in the red. The higher opening reflected little data and some new…
Jon OggThese are the top analyst calls of upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall St. research calls this Tuesday morning. ABB Ltd. (NYSE: ABB) cut to Sell at Deutsche…
Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW) this morning reported second-quarter adjusted earnings of $0.31 per share and $1.91 billion in revenue. Earnings per share (EPS) fell from $0.48 in the same period a year…
Paul Ausick The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning as markets treated the Moody’s downgrade of 15 major banks as old news that was already baked into share prices (our coverage…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Friday. Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) Maintained Buy with target of $73.00 at Cantor…
Markets opened higher this morning, led by the Nasdaq which got a big boost from the strong report last night from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). The report from the US Census Bureau…
US equity markets opened lower this morning and never moved into positive territory all day. Greek debt swap negotiations made no discernible progress today and there was no scheduled data on tap…
