These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades from Wall Street this Monday morning with well over two hours until the open: Ameristar Casinos (ASCA) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan. Barrick…
Microsoft (MSFT) is pushing hard to show that it can be a viable competitor in the business of providing operating systems for smartphones. It has done a deal with handset giant LG…
Wall St. is estimating that Microsoft (MSFT) will make $.40 a share in the current quarter and $1.77 for its fiscal year which ends in June. The company’s CEO is sending a…
These are this Thursday’s early bird analyst downgrades and negative research calls with more than two hours until the market opens: ASML (ASML) Cut to Neutral at B of A Merrill Lynch.…
Shares in large software companies including Microsoft (MSFT) and Oracle (ORCL) have been selling off quickly over the last two quarters. The general forecasts for the firms is that a slowdown in…
China reworked its 2007 GDP growth numbers and that put it ahead of Germany in total GDP, making it the third largest economy in the world. The revision seems a little out…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades and negative calls we are seeing this Friday morning: American Axle (AXL) Cut to Sell at Deutsche Bank. American Express (AXP) Started as…
These are the top downgrades and cautious calls we have seen from Wall Street analysts this Wednesday morning: BHP Billiton plc (BBL) Cut to Hold at Canaccord. Cooper Industries (CBE) Cut to…
Intel (INTC) said it loved its past and hated its future. The Age of Romance must be over. These sentiments are supposed to be the other way around. The world’s largest chip…
According to Reuters, Bank of America (BAC) reported weak earnings and cut its dividend. Reuters reports that Wells Fargo (WFC) and Citigroup (C) agreed to drop litigation for now and negotiate over…
If the segment of tech which markets to large businesses was supposed to be one of the last bastions of earnings safety, it has just fallen. SAP (SAP), the second largest enterprise…
These are some of the analyst upgrades and positive calls we are seeing early this Tuesday morning: Aeropostale (ARO) Started as Buy at Goldman Sachs. Amgen (AMGN) Raised to Buy at Citigroup.…
According to Reuters, Merrill Lynch (MER) said that it would sell $8.5 billion in stock and take large write-downs. Reuters report that KKR says the market slump is a good time to…
VMWare (VMW) was the hot IPO of 2007. Its shares rose from $50 to $125 almost overnight. The run-up improved the fortunes of the stockholders of its majority shareholder EMC (EMC) and…
Markets in Europe were off at 6.45 AM New York time. The FTSE was down .2% to 6,252. Barclays (BCS) was off 2.5% to 463.25. Unilever was up 3.9% to 1727. The…
