Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from 24/7 Wall St. include Amarin, CenturyLink, Legg Mason, Rackspace, Transocean and Valero Energy.
Needless to say, when a market has an almost six-year run like we have seen, insiders are itching to take some money off the table.
A new Credit Suisse research report suggests firms private equity like Carlyle and Blackstone may go out and make smaller strategic acquisitions of smaller players.
ThinkstockNielsen N.V. (NYSE: NLSN) disclosed after the close that some 20 million shares would be sold by Valcon Acquisition Holding (Luxembourg) in an underwritten secondary offering. The same group will grant the…
These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations for Monday, May 12, 2014. They include Amarin, Boeing, Cisco, KKR, NetApp and Twitter.
courtesy of Ford Motor Co.When Ford Motor Co.’s (NYSE: F) Alan Mulally leaves the company on July 1, it is pretty unlikely that he will find a park bench somewhere and begin…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wednesday, April 9, 2014. They include Apache, Arch Coal, CBOE, Chevron, GM and Nasdaq OMX.
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Wednesday, March 26, 2014. They include Carlyle Group, Facebook, Garmin, Sirius XM and Tesla Motors.
After a strong 2013 where the S&P 500 was up almost 30%, you would think that most stocks would be close to being fully priced. That's not what Thomas Lee, the chief…
ThinkstockLike other sectors of the S&P 500, the capital market stocks had a tremendous year. Capital market stocks include brokerage firms, asset managers, financial advisory firms and more. Many of the stocks…
ThinkstockAs usual, the writers at Barron’s have made some suggests in this weekend’s edition for stocks to buy and stocks to avoid. Among the new picks are a chainsaw maker, a leading…
Jon OggEarnings season may be winding down, but we are still getting some key reports. Now traders and investors have to decide how to position their holdings for 2014. 24/7 Wall St.…
ThinkstockMost investors generally think that private equity firms exit most of their investments by initial public offerings or by outright resale of a whole company. There is actually another private equity exit…
Wikimedia CommonsThe stock market rallied to new highs last week on the strength of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s comments on the continuation of the easy money policies that are flooding the…
ThinkstockAs the world’s largest mining companies look to shed assets as they seek to boost investor returns, the mining sector is drawing interest from private equity firms. Blackstone Group LP (NYSE: BX),…
