These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades we have seen this Thursday morning: Amazon.com (AMZN) Raised to Overweight at Barclays. Applied Materials (AMAT) Raised to Buy at Citigroup. Blue Nile…
Analysts are of two minds about Google (GOOG). The first is that because it is the most efficient way for companies to reach customers that it will not be hurt much by…
Some figures picked up in the media from research house ShopperTrak showed retail sales on Black Friday up 3%, which was much better than the most gloomy forecasts. The level of consumer…
The latest data from comSCORE is showing some very troubling trends. In the past, online retails sales have grown while on-site retail sales have seen their ups and downs. It was the…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are some of the many analyst downgrades we have seen on Wall Street this Thursday morning: Amazon.com (AMZN) Cut to Hold at Citigroup. Amdocs (DOX) Cut to Neutral at Baird. Berry…
Tech stocks are far from immune in the selling. We put together a list of the major stocks trading sharply lower on active trading and we listed the previous 52-week lows to…
Amazon (AMZN) has two huge advantages as a retailer. The first is that it has no stores. The other is that it has an astonishingly large list of things it sells from…
According to Reuters, former Citigroup (C) CEO Sandy Weill may start a fund to invest in distressed financial companies. Reuters writes that Amazon (AMZN) turned in a weak forecast hurting its stock.…
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today posted earnings of $0.27 per share and $4.26 billion in revenue. First Call had estimates were $0.25 EPS and $4.27 billion in revenue. When the company last…
Douglas A. McIntyre Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is set to report earnings after today’s close. Despite the fact that Amazon.com is now a fully profitable industry leader is probably not going to…
Douglas A. McIntyre Analysts assume third quarter earnings for the companies in the S&P 500 will be bad. But, looking at the number which is the average of all firms in the index is misleading.…
Google (GOOG) may never make money on its $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube. Selling advertising next to all of that low-resolution video of people beating their dogs and dancing drunk on their…
Updated: 31 October 2008 Not all companies and industries will be hit equally hard by the consumer credit crisis. Operations such as Procter & Gamble (PG), McDonald’s (MCD), and Wal-Mart (WMT) may…
Unfortunately there is no real clear trend in the Internet sector stocks in the short selling from mid-August to late August as you will see below. Internet …
The evidence that sales at many companies are struggling and that employment will suffer are almost everywhere. Recently, a division of GMAC said it would let 5,000 people go. According to MSNBC,…
