Reuters:  Volcker believes that banks should not be allowed to make risky trades. Reuters:  Toyota (NYSE:TM) sales dropped after its recall announcements. Reuters:  More US consumers are paying credit cards before mortgages. Reuters:  …
These are this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in early all Street research calls: Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) Cut to Conviction Sell at Goldman Sachs. Alcoa Inc. (NYSE:…
These are this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP) Cut to Hold at Auriga. Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL)…
Reuters:  Kraft (NYSE:KFT) sold it pizza business to Nestle and lifted the cash portion of its deal to buy Cadbury (NYSE:CBY). Reuters:  Cold weather pushed oil prices near $82. Reuters:  US healthcare spending…
These are this Monday’s top 10 analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, and Initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) Raised to Overweight at Barclays. Airvana Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRV) Cut to…
This might have seemed a tough week to come up with a list of unusual suspects. There are only a handful of earnings, but there are many follow-on items from last week…
California Micro Devices Corp. (NASDAQ: CAMD) surged over 53.11% to a yearly high of $4.67 after the chipmaker agreed to be bought out by ON Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: ONNN) for $4.70 a…
There are many key movers in day trader alert stocks this morning on news events. We have covered each story with a link to more detail and analysis over at VSInvestor.com: Amazon.com,…
These are Monday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) Started as Underperform at Credit Suisse. ARM Holdings (NASDAQ: ARMH) Started as…
The second half of December is supposed to be when trading volume starts slowing down. That does not look to be the case for this coming week, and this list of the unusual suspects is…
Standard & Poor’s often makes S&P index changes for the S&P 500, the S&P Mid-Cap 400 and the S&P Small Cap 600 at the end of the year. This probably is not…
These are this Friday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Air Products & Chemicals (NYSE: APD) Started as Outperform at William Blair. Akamai Technologies, Inc.…
24/7 Wall St. looked at a very large number of Nascar crashes to assess which were the most expensive. The crashes reviewed occurred between 2002 and the present. A Fox Sports analysis estimates…
Reuters:Â Â The Nielsen survey shows consumer confidence up in the US for the first time since 2007. Reuters:Â Â Obama’s financial reforms are advancing in Congress. Reuters:Â Â The pay czar said his authority…
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is reporting some stellar earnings considering the environment and this appears to be the 6th or 7th beat against estimates. The credit card processing giant posted $0.74 non-GAAP…
