These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this morning: Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Started as Buy at Stifel Nicolaus. ArcelorMittal (NYSE:…
Reuters: Senate Democrats are fighting over financial reform. Reuters: Fishing bans are growing in the Gulf. Reuters: GM will stop paying union employees who quit. Reuters: The euro fell after Germany banned…
What exactly is that device that you can hold in your hand and use to read a book, surf the web, and send an email or text message? Industry analysis firm IDC…
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) had been on another tear but a UBS downgrade from Neutral to ‘Sell’ yesterday refuted a WSJ story that Netflix could be a possible takeover target for Amazon.com…
Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray, a notorious Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) bull, estimates 300,000 3G iPads were sold last weekend, its first on the market. This can be added to the one million WiFi-only iPads that…
These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alerts. Most are earnings related and this is just a select group of stocks on the move during the earnings season onslaught. …
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Reuters: The push for a stronger yuan has been modest at the G20 meetings. Reuters: A Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) Director Rajat Gupta told hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam about a $5 billion…
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) was hitting new all-time highs today before earnings. The online e-tail giant posted $0.66 EPS on $7.13 billion in revenues versus $0.61 EPS and $6.87 billion in revenues. …
Jon C. Ogg Amazon (NASAQ: AMZN) announced that it would begin to sell its Kindle digital book reader in some Target (NYSE: TGT) stores. The news was viewed as a big “win” for Amazon, which has…
Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) issued a press release after the closing bell today that is confirming what has gone around the rumor mill for some time. The Kindle ebook reader from Amazon.com…
Reuters: Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) password operation was hit by cyberattacks. Reuters: A leading political party in Germany is urging that the nation not deal with Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS). Reuters: …
Earnings season is off to the races, even if Friday was a curve-ball for the markets and for reactions to earnings. Most of the big stocks are off on Wall Street scandal…
Reuters: An 11.9% growth in China during the first quarter has caused the government to look at tightening. Reuters: Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE: TM) is testing all of its SUVs after problems…
Apple, Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) has done too good a job marketing its iPad in the US. Or, it underestimated the number of units it would need to start to sell the product overseas.…
