The market is soft, the economy hit a soft patch, and now woes are building about Italy beyond Greece, while China and India keep applying the brakes on growth. This is taking…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. The Active Network, Inc. (NYSE: ACTV) Started as Buy at BofA/ML;…
How many companies can announce that they are raising cash and see shares rise or even remain flat going into the pricing of the offering? Not many, but don’t tell that to…
Jon C. Ogg Today’s commodities news leads off with a new report on mergers and acquisitions in the metals sector, including a failed try at selling a copper miner. There’s also a new report on…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) Raised to Neutral at Goldman Sachs.…
Jon OggThese are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley. Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) Raised…
S&P 500 WEEK TOP 10 (11FEB -17FEB) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 17Feb11 Close Price 11Feb11 Market Cap($Mil) Family Dollar Stores Inc. FDO 19.3 52.67 44.16 6656.8 Tesoro Corp TSO…
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…
Last April’s mine explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine killed 29 miners in the worst coal mining disaster in 40 years. Massey Energy Co. (NYSE: MEE), the mine’s owner, has taken…
There are many stocks on the move this morning for day traders and active traders. BP plc (NYSE: BP), Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTIC), Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C), Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.…
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…
We are not seeing the floodgate of dividend hikes as we had seen in earlier weeks this year, but hikes, talk of hikes, and other big dividend news changes are out this…
This is the Twitter-24/7 Wall St. market report for May 4, 2010. These tweets are a sign of which companies the Twitter universe is interested in. Is there there is wisdom in…
For the past 40 years, the price of iron ore has been set annually in a negotiated deal between miners and buyers. Typically, the first large customer to cut a deal with…
Standard & Poor’s often makes S&P index changes for the S&P 500, the S&P Mid-Cap 400 and the S&P Small Cap 600 at the end of the year. This probably is not…
