These are ten of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls early this Wednesday morning: BP plc (NYSE: BP) defended at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.…
These are ten of the top research calls of upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street firms this Wednesday morning: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Raised to Outperform at Scotia. Canadian Solar…
“Never look over your shoulder. Something might be gaining on you.”–Satchel Page Jack Welsh once said that GE would sell any division of the conglomerate that was not No.1 or No.2 in…
Didn’t earnings season just end? It sure feels that way. The earnings season floodgates are about to open. The media will try to tell you this is the most critical earnings season…
A look at the “hardest working” major brands for 2009 shows that a number of them belong to companies which have done poorly and, in at least one case, may file Chapter…
Charles Schwab Corp. (NASDAQ: SCHW) is changing its listing from the NASDAQ to the New York Stock Exchange. Technically, this is either again or back to it. The company said that it…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street research calls this morning: Accenture plc (NYSE: ACN) Cut to Sell at Kaufman Bros. Anheuser-Busch (NYSE: BUD)…
Large consumer companies spend a great deal of marketing money on creating, preserving, and increasing the image of their brands. If a product has problems, the process does not always work. Toyota…
Shares of electronic trading firms are under a bit of pressure today over fears of more price wars in the highly competitive electronic trading arena. The pressure comesx after Fidelity said it…
Reuters: Obama said he will not let companies who owe the US taxes to bid for government work. Reuters: Republican Scott Brown won the Senate race in Massachusetts putting the Obama healthcare…
Charles Schwab Corp. (NASDAQ: SCHW) has launched two new ETF products today. The Schwab International Small-Cap Equity ETF (NYSE: SCHC) and the Schwab Emerging Markets Equity ETF (NYSE: SCHE) have begun trading. …
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: Oil is at $82 and will move based on US jobs data. Reuters: Reliance upped its offer for Lyondell to $13.5 billion. Reuters: An former SAC employee was caught in a probe of…
By Paul Ausick of 24/7 Wall St. Charles Schwab Corporation (NASDAQ:SCHW) has announced that it will drop its online equity trade commissions for retail investors from $12.95/trade to $8.95/trade beginning January 19,…
E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) has some good news this morning, although this could actually be bad news for those hoping for an immediate takeover. The company has been without an heir…
This morning’s top day trader and active trader alerts are in some less common names than what we normally see. These also have links through to VSInvestor.com with more detailed data and…
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