Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Raised to Buy at Jefferies. Aixtron SE (NASDAQ:…
CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) is reportedly ready to go after the London Metal Exchange. Bloomberg has reported that multiple bidders have become interested because the exchange controls somewhere around 80% of the…
Commodities and derivatives exchange operator Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (NYSE: ICE) reported fourth quarter adjusted EPS of $1.76, easily topping the consensus estimate of $1.69. Revenue for the quarter rose to $327.2 million,…
Paul Ausick We are entering into the last waves of the normalized quarterly earnings reports for companies with December 31 quarter-end dates, and we are entering the first waves of the earnings reports from…
Argus has made quite a few changes to its model portfolio for 2012 after the first week of trading this year. The company has broken these out in equity income, growth and…
MF Global Holdings Ltd. (NYSE: MF) has been halted pending news this Monday. Workers may be allowed into the offices, but the firm is being cut off from transacting business. The company…
If you can count on the Europeans to do one thing, it is to invent new taxation methods regardless of whether or not it makes sense. After Merkel and Sarkozy met today,…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Analog Devices Inc. (NYSE: ADI) Reiterated Buy and Raised target to…
The U.S. is about to get another electronic exchange listed as a public stock. BATS Global Markets, Inc. wants to come public and has just filed for an initial public offering. The…
If you are like the rest of who are upset about some ‘minor market issues’ like Bernie Madoff, Raj, Octopussy, and the dozens of other extreme violations of securities laws, then you…
Early this morning when most people were asleep came news that the NYSE Euronext, Inc. (NYSE: NYX) was considering an opt-out of its existing merger pact with Deutsche Boerse to turn on this rival…
First it was the shame that one of America’s greatest names was going to effectively be foreign-owned. The NYSE Euronext, Inc. (NYSE: NYX) is currently in a pending merger agreement with Deutsche…
Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) cut 5% of the employees in its trading operation (Reuters) Congress added another stop gap budget bill to take the federal government’s funding through April 8 (Reuters)…
The recently announced merger between the NYSE Euronext, Inc. (NYSE: NYX) and Deutsche Boerse has created a conundrum in the sector of exchanges. Now there is a need to consolidate, but the…
Exchanges are already too powerful. Now comes word that NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) is in advanced talks with Germany’s Deutsche Boerse. Shares were halted per the NYSE request. The good news for…
