Are investors forgetting the lessons of the dot-com bust of the 1990s?It would seem to be the case. Just like in the Clinton administration, companies with uncertain prospects are attracting insanely high…
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 Wall Street Journal reports that sales of Diet Coke in the US have passed those of Pepsi. Regular, sugary Coke holds the top spot. The Journal’s analysis of the situation largely…
FedEx (NYSE: FDX) profits will probably be higher but hurt by gas prices. (Reuters) Lehman Bros has set November 17 as the date to get approval of its bankruptcy plan. (Reuters) Problems…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) Raised to Buy at…
Reuters: A Deutsche Borse deal with the the NYSE (NYSE: NYX) faces regulatory resistance (Reuters) Reuters: Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will try to create competition for Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG)…
Earnings season is actually close to winding down for the December quarter. We still have many late reports coming out for the December quarter and year-end. We have identified 11 of the…
These are some of this Wednesday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) Cut to Hold at Citigroup. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Started…
President Obama will host a meeting for a number of large company CEOs in Washington this week. The heads of Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), IBM (NYSE: IBM), and PepsiCo (NYSE:…
PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) has a long history of operating in Russia. It is about to get much deeper into the country. This morning came the announcement that PepsiCo is going to…
Jon C. Ogg For years now, The Economist has computed its Big Mac index, a measure of purchasing power parity in the countries in which Big Macs from McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) are sold. The…
These are some of this Tuesday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. BHP Billiton plc (NYSE: BHP) Started as Buy at Goldman Sachs. Bucyrus International (NASDAQ:…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking moves in Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALVR), Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK), BioFuel Energy Corp.…
Next week will mark the unofficial start of earnings season. While it will take another week or two for earnings to get into full swing, there are many key companies with earnings…
Defensive stocks are supposed to hold up in down stock markets. That isn’t so today. In our list of 17 defensive stocks we routinely track, none were positive today. On average, the…
