Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Monday. Aeropostale Inc. (NYSE: ARO) cut to Neutral at Janney Capital. AK Steel Holding…
courtesy Facebook Inc.Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) has now denied that it is in talks with Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) — or any other company for that matter — regarding search partnership. TechCrunch…
ThinkstockLondon’s Telegraph newspaper yesterday carried a report based on unnamed sources that Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) were in discussions about how the two companies could work more…
U.S. equity markets opened flat this morning following not much in the way of data from either Asia or Europe. In Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants the European Central Bank to…
courtesy of AOLAs a Justice Department investigation of Deepwater Horizon continues, BP PLC (NYSE: BP) may pay a record fine for the results of the disaster. (Reuters) Qatar says it would back…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning, but the three major indexes fell below the neutral line after the first hour or so of trading. In Europe, Greece said its GDP contracted…
courtesy Facebook Inc.In a counter-intuitive development today, shares of Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) are up more than 11% as roughly 800 million newly tradable shares of the company’s stock hit the market.…
Paul Ausick The stock market is down Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.62%, the Nasdaq down 0.41% and the S&P 500 down 0.56%. Today’s winners are a retailer reporting strong earnings, an…
thinkstockAdvanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) has hired J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) to explore options, which may include the firm’s sale. (Reuters) Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen says…
ThinkstockFacebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is about to get the biggest lock-up expiration of its shares to date. On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 there will be very close to 800 million shares of…
Jon C. Ogg ThinkstockThe short interest in the actively traded cult stocks and in some of the active low-priced shares is often volatile. We tracked some rather large moves up and down in this group…
By Jeff Ooi., posted to LensaMalaysia.com via Wikimedia CommonsPerhaps believing that the worst is over for some of America’s most troubled companies, or fearing a year-end rally that could lift all ships,…
thinkstockFacebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) did see some key executives sell shares into the lockup expiration last week. Sheryl Sandberg, who is chief operating officer, and often considered the adult supervision at Facebook,…
Jon C. Ogg ThinkstockG-20 ministers say they worry about the fiscal cliff and Europe’s debt issues. (Reuters) Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) raises its profit forecasts but says its trouble in China was significant. (Reuters) As…
thinkstockFounders of major companies are sometimes pushed out by their boards. It is quite another thing for an outsider to do the same. Netflix Inc.’s (NASDAQ: NFLX) Reed Hastings has lost much…
