Standard & Poor’s may have done the inevitable move of a U.S. credit ratings downgrade and it may have followed with the downgrade of the insurance companies and with many government agencies…
Fitch and Moody’s kept the U.S. rating at Aaa (Reuters) Years of slow growth and aging populations in the West could hasten the rise of BRIC economies (Reuters) Google+ (NASDAQ: GOOG) and…
The odds that the U.S. will default on its debt on or after August 2 increase each day. Some credit analysts believe the odds are in favor of insolvency. In the event…
Homeowners get clobbered in the press as the housing depression worsens. Hackers hit ADP servers and worry grows about safety of payroll data. Market revolt about Target earnings. The Flame Index started…
The upcoming week is not very active on the earnings front but we do have some key events to watch for individual equities and companies. This our cast of “The Unusual Suspects”…
Employment in the private sector rose by 217,000 in February, according to the latest report from Automatic Data Processing Inc. (NYSE: ADP). The reported increase of 187,000 new jobs in January was…
Douglas A. McIntyre Media reports questioning whether the United States will keep its “Triple-A Rating” in the future are frequent. The fear of endless budget deficit spending and quantitative easing have only added fuel to…
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Raised to Buy at Stern Agee.…
ADP is out with its pre-unemployment and payrolls figure with its guess for what happened on the jobs front in December. ADP is often not on target, but the number shows a…
After a long period of unemployment, any upside to the jobs numbers at any point offers a helping hand to the stocks of companies that revolve around the jobs market. That is…
The Labor Department announced the most recent statistics on jobless claims. The figures confirm information from ADP and Challenger Gray. They also foreshadow weak unemployment data for June “In the week ending…
Douglas A. McIntyre The RealtyTrac numbers from this morning showed that improved housing activity in March and April was caused by federal tax breaks and low mortgage rates. Once those benefits disappeared, home sales and…
Douglas A. McIntyre The consensus estimate among economists is that the BLS will say that the US added 140,000 net new jobs in March. That could bring the unemployment rate down by a tenth of a…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are this Tuesday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from early morning Wall Street research notes: American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC) Raised to Buy at Jefferies. Automatic Data Processing,…
These are this Wednesday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations which we have seen early on from Wall Street research calls: ACE Limited (ACE) Started as Outperform at RBC Capital Markets.…
