Troubled retailer Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), which was formed by a 2005 merger of Sears and Kmart, was thrown out of the S&P 500 as of September 4. It will be replaced by specialty chemical…
The chemicals industry is not ordinarily thought of as action central, but there have been some recent moves, including one today, that are stirring things up. Two private equity firms, First Reserve…
On Tuesday the US Department of Energy announced awards to 13 projects totaling more than $54 million. According to the press release: to advance transformational technologies and materials that can help American…
The three major US stock indexes opened slightly higher this morning following their European and Asian counterparts, none of which were the least concerned about a downgrade to Japanese debt or dire…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday. ABIOMED Inc. (NASDAQ: ABMD) Cut to Neutral at Lazard Capital. ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT)…
Investors love dividends and that is being proven yet again when you look at LyondellBasell Industries NV (NYSE: LYB) today. The chemical company is far from its days of bankruptcy reorganization and now…
Jon OggThese are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. American Capital Mortgage Investment Corp. (NASDAQ: MTGE) Started as Hold…
Rising commodity prices didn’t hurt fourth quarter earnings or revenues at Dow Chemical Co. (NYSE: DOW). The company posted EPS of $0.37 from profits of $511 million on revenue of $13.77 billion.…
