Yesterday, the Federal Reserve reported that 9 out of 10 bank holding companies that were required to raise additional capital to bolster their balance sheets have successfully done so. Â The Supervisory Capital…
Updated throughout the day. Updated at 11.49 AM EST:Â Reynolds Americam (NYSE:RAI) may buy Niconovum, a Swedish maker of nicotine gum and mouth sprays (Boomberg) Updated at 10.12 AM EST: Wells Fargo…
Wall St. likes financial statements that give it deep insights into a company’s operations, especially its liabilities. It likes boards that make sure shareholders get as complete a picture as possible of…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 1.36 PM EST: Nokia’s (NYSE:NOK) patent suit against Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) could cost iPhone maker $1 billion (Reuters) The Bank of England may have to increase bond purchases…
Dick Bove of Rochdale Securities may have been responsible for today’s sell-off as many banking stocks fell late in the day. Bove has downgraded Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) to a…
Douglas A. McIntyre This morning’s banking reports from Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) and US Bancorp (NYSE: USB) might as well be called the Warren Buffett banking reports, or the banking earnings for Berkshire…
We have almost an endless wave of corporate earnings for the calendar Q3-2009 coming out next week. We have what looks to be over 100 of the S&P 500 Index members reporting…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 3.14 PM EST: STIC (NASDAQ:STIC) dropping on rumors that Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) database applications may hurt STIC sales (Barron’s) Updated 3.11 PM EST: Level 3 (NASDAQ:LVLT) is surging…
Reuters:Â Â E-mails and the credit crisis will be key to the trial of Bear Stearns workers. Reuters:Â The approval process for Tengzhong to buy Hummer has started in China. Reuters:Â Â Philips Electronics…
These are this Thursday morning’s top 10 Wall Street research calls we have seen in the land of upgrades, downgrades, and initiations: Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) Raised to Outperform at RW Baird.…
We are seeing a very mixed picture among the analyst calls this morning over banks and financial stocks. We are seeing some very positive “BUY” calls and we are also seeing some…
Reuters:Â Â The pay czar plans to rework employee pay at large banks. Reuters:Â Â Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) may enter the tech M&A frenzy. Reuters:Â Â Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) says some Hotmail passwords were exposed. Reuters:Â Â The…
These are this morning’s top day trader alerts and active trader alert stocks for Monday. We have more details on volume and price analysis on each stock covered at VSInvestor.com: Amicus Therapeutics…
There were many more upgrades than downgrades seen early this Monday morning. These are top upgrades and positive research calls from Wall Street analysts we have seen so far: Capital One Financial…
It is the weekend and that means a review of last week’s unusual suspects and a review for key stocks in the week ahead. Technically earnings season gets its first earnings report…
