The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning following a weaker-than-expected report on U.S. personal income and inline personal consumption spending (more coverage here). U.S. markets followed Europe, where today’s…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Friday. ADTRAN Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) cut to Underperform at BofA/ML. AGCO Corp. (NYSE: AGCO) named…
The fiscal cliff has been described as a potential disaster for the finances of individuals and corporations alike. If Congress and the White House do not reach an agreement on the budget…
Douglas A. McIntyre While many individual Americans are struggling financially, some of the largest corporations in the United States are sitting on billions in cash. Moody’s pointed out in March that U.S. nonfinancial companies’ cash holdings rose to…
More American companies are among the 20 largest in the world than at any time in the past decade. This is because earnings at U.S. companies have risen faster than the rest…
While most of the 30 stocks on the Dow Jones Industrial closed in the red yesterday, Kraft Foods Inc. (NASDAQ: KFT) and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) bucked that trend. Kraft climbed 0.71%, according…
Drugmaker Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE: LLY) announced this morning that the company’s solanezumab treatment for Alzheimer’s disease failed to meet both the cognitive and functional endpoints in recently completed phase 3…
Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE: ELN) may be surging on news that it is going to spin off its drug research unit, but now there is something else to consider. Elan could be getting…
Drug maker Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) has filed a Form S-1 with the SEC for an initial public offering of the company’s animal health unit into a company to be called Zoetis…
Paul Ausick Drug maker Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) today announced that it has reached settlements with the US Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission related to improper payments (aka, bribes) paid by…
Paul Ausick Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) sells assets to improve earnings. (Reuters) Standard Chartered may lose its New York banking license over allegations it hid $250 billion in transactions tied to Iran. (Reuters) Acer…
Johnson & Johnson Inc. (NYSE: JNJ) and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) both announced they are stopping development of a drug to treat patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s after the drug failed a…
The three major US stock indexes opened mixed this morning following the unemployment report from the Eurozone, which showed that the 11.2% rate had remained unchanged. The Eurozone consumer price index was…
U.S. stocks are set to open higher on the final day of July. All three indexes are expected to post mild gains for the month. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average…
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) reported second-quarter adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.62 and $15.06 billion in revenue this morning. Adjusted EPS was up from $0.59 in the same period a year…
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