Stocks opened higher this morning and have mostly remained in positive territory throughout the day. Reports that China was considering lowering its banks’ capital reserve requirements boosted both Asian and European markets…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Thursday morning. ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) Cut to Hold at Needham…
US supplier of specialty gas products, Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) is selling its European homecare business to The Linde Group for euro 590 million (about $750 million). The company’s…
Paul Ausick These are some of Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) Reiterated Buy with $18 target at Argus. Air Products &…
Investors love dividends, particularly from companies which are raising dividends or which have a history of raising dividends. There is a new diversified sample dividend portfolio for investors called the “8-Pack of…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) Reiterated Buy and $108…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) Raised to Buy at…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) Raised to Buy at…
Earnings season is well under way now and we wanted to offer previews for the biggest impact stocks which have earnings on Thursday and Friday. The remaining most important earnings we are…
Earnings season is upon us and this week will mark the beginning of the flood of earnings reports. The most important earnings we are tracking will be from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL),…
Two weeks ago, Air Products (NYSE: APD) made what it said was its “best and final offer” for Airgas, Inc. (NYSE: ARG), a $70.00 per share hostile takeover deal that has been…
Jon C. Ogg If you have followed mergers and acquisitions for the last year or more, you are probably growing rather sick of the proposed merger where Air Products (NYSE: APD) wants to acquire Airgas,…
Jon C. Ogg These are some of this Monday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) Added to Goldman Sachs Conviction Buy List. Air…
Industrial equipment supplier Airgas, Inc. (NYSE:ARG) reported second fiscal quarter 2011 results today that were pretty much in line with expectations. EPS, excluding items, came in at $0.83 on sales of $1.06…
Betting on carbon capture has been hard to do, and it still may be a stretch for some investors who may have preferred to see smaller companies. Today came the announcement from…
