Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Thursday morning. Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer; named…
Canaccord Genuity has what may sound routine with a “Reiterated Buy” rating in Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) this morning. The call is far from routine, because the firm’s price target is being…
Jon C. Ogg Sometime next week, the US Department of Justice is expected to give its stamp of approval to Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. (NYSE: MMI) and…
Greek ministers will go to Brussels to meet with EU officials about restructuring of debt, but several details have not been resolved. (Reuters) Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) posts earnings that trouble Wall St. and…
The cloud, a way for people and businesses to store information on remote servers instead of locally on PCs and other devices, has become a part of the product offerings of every…
Following media reports in The New York Times and other outlets about the treatment of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) supplier workers at China manufacturer Foxconn, nearly 200,000 people have signed an online petition to get…
Douglas A. McIntyre Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) may be ticking up marginally after reporting its quarterly loss. Sprint turned in a report showing a loss of -$0.35 EPS, narrowly better than the -$0.37 EPS…
Jon C. Ogg The restructuring of the world’s troubled multinationals continues. The trend has been particularly evident in industries like big pharma, where sales have fallen too fast to maintain expense levels. The most recent victim of poor sales,…
The Greeks try to get a financial aid package while some regional leaders say the eurozone does not need the southern European nation. (Reuters) A House committee pushes through plans for a…
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has made no secret of its desire to compete with Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) in the streaming of premium video to customers. Amazon has a built in advantage.…
Yet another all-time high for shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). Whether it is iPhone, Mac, iPad, or the chatter of the coming AppleTV… The run here has been amazing when you…
Chinese display maker Proview Technology (Shenzen) has filed suit in a Chinese court seeking $38 million and an apology from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) for infringement of the iPad trademark in the…
Paul Ausick Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) is being maintained as “neutral” in a call by Zacks Investment Research, which frankly is just on valuation and because of prior stock moves higher. If you just…
Greece continues to demonstrate that it can teeter almost indefinitely between austerity and the grant of aid packages without a short-term resolution to its sovereign debt crisis. The latest development is that the ruling coalition…
Glencore and Xtrata agree to a $90 billion merger. (Reuters) Greek leaders face a deal for settling sovereign debt matters as workers strike. (Reuters) Toyota (NYSE: TM) posts good third-quarter profits and…
