No matter how bad the markets were in February, they were worse for some stocks than for others. Shares in Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) dropped 16% during the second month of the year,…
Shares of telecom company Qwest (NYSE: Q) are up almost 8% on news that it wants a better deal with Sprint (NYSE: S) for providing wireless service in its region which includes…
Short interest in companies traded on the NYSE increased for a number of financial firms based on positions as of February 15. The data compares to numbers on January 31 Shares sold…
Industry-wide price wars are like the old Western range wars. They don’t happen often but when they do they are violent and have sudden onsets. A new home-phone program from T-Mobile is…
Verizon (VZ) bottomed at $33.30 after downgrades due to cellular service price wars. HCC Insurance (HCC) Weak quarterly results. Trades down to $24.25 from 52-week high of $24.45. AT&T (T) drops to…
Now that its rivals (AT&T NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless have gone to $99.99 a month unlimited calling plans, Sprint (NYSE: S) needs to get it in gear. It has had trouble…
These are not the only analyst calls today, but these are the top ten calls that 247WallSt.com is looking at this morning: AT&T (NYSE: T) downgraded to Neutral from Outperform at Credit…
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has been the cock of the walk, but that has changed. Yesterday, the shares hit a 52-week low at $35.19. The large run-up in Verizon’s stock last year was…
Apple (NYSE: AAPL) iPhones, perhaps hundreds of thousands of them, are finding their way into China. There they are "unlocked" so that they can work on local cellular networks. According to The…
A lot of smaller companies will continue to report earnings over the next several weeks, but almost all of the really big companies which are on calendar fiscals have put out their…
According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) rejected Microsoft’s (MST) bid for the company. Reuters writes that Credit Suisse reduced its write-downs from subprime insrtuments. Reuters writes that RIM (RIMM) had a huge outage…
Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) has posted results of $0.15 EPS on revenues of $1.403 Billion (on an ex-TAC basis). Consensus estimates from First Call were $0.11 EPS & $1.41 Billion Revenues. As far…
These are not the only upgrades and downgrades on stocks this morning, but these are the main ones that 247WallSt.com is focusing on in early pre-market hours: Arcelor Mittal (NYSE: MT) raised…
Firestone. American Motors. Texaco. Pan Am. Worldcom. At one point or another these large American companies were at the top of their industries. Pan Am was the leading global airline for decades.…
We are full blown into earnings season now. These are not all of the stocks in the news, but this is a good portion of the news in individual stocks for traders…
