Two of the world’s largest oil field services firms reported earnings this morning: Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) and Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB). Both handily beat earnings per share (EPS) and revenue…
Oil and gas driller Nabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE: NBR) warned this morning that the company expects second-quarter operating results to miss consensus estimate, mainly as a result of higher costs: The shortfall…
Argus has made some basic changes to its FOCUS LIST of its analysts’ best ideas. Those which were added were Allstate Corp. (NYSE: ALL), Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc. (NYSE: DKS), Enterprise Product…
Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. ARM Holdings PLC (NASDAQ: ARMH) Started as Overweight at Piper Jaffray. AvalonBay Communities, Inc.…
Glencore and Xtrata agree to a $90 billion merger. (Reuters) Greek leaders face a deal for settling sovereign debt matters as workers strike. (Reuters) Toyota (NYSE: TM) posts good third-quarter profits and…
Eugene Isenberg, the chairman and former CEO of Nabor Industries (NYSE: NBR), will drop his claim to a $100 million compensation package. The deal has been attacked by shareholder activists and the press The…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) Started as Hold at Deutsche Bank. Becton Dickinson…
The month of October was a solid month for stocks, one of the best months of our lifetimes. We have two groups today and the first is the stocks which rose the…
Late Wednesday night, natural gas prices inexplicably dropped by about 8% on the NYMEX, well after the exchange had closed for the day. It took only a few seconds for the price…
These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Analog Devices Inc. (NYSE: ADI) Started as Neutral at Sterne Agee. ASML Holding (NASDAQ:…
The following are the ten CEOs who received the largest stock option grants in 2009. Together, they enjoyed gains which totaled $230 million based on their value at the end of May.…
New data from search firm Spencer Stuart shows that members of the boards of three American public companies make more than $100,000 a meeting. Two of the first are not terribly well-known–…
The thoughts of restricting the pay packages of the CEOs of public companies may be in the air, but new data on chief executive compensation show that boards of directors are not…
Goldman Sachs has made several key upgrades and downgrades this morning in the utility sector and in the oil patch. While the utility sector was raised to attractive, some of the other…
These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades and negative calls we have seen early this Tuesday morning: Apogee (APOG) Cut to Sell at Piper Jaffray. BJ Services (BJS) Cut to…
