The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning following some lackluster data on the US economy. The Empire State manufacturing data improved, but retail sales posted an unexpected decline (our…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Wednesday. American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) Raised to Outperform at William Blair.…
Markets opened higher this morning and by late-morning equities were trading down about 1.5% across the board, where they have mostly remained for the rest of the day. An upbeat auction on…
Markets opened lower this morning and there was no news sufficient to unleash significant buying. The report on new claims for unemployment benefits came in about as expected (our coverage here), and…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday. American International Group (NYSE: AIG) Reiterated Buy with $40 target at BofA/ML.…
Comerica Inc. (NYSE: CMA) has announced that it will consider a proposal to increase its dividend by 50% to $0.15/quarter and commence a $375 million share buyback plan. The dividend increase and…
Paul Ausick Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Alcatel-Lucent, S.A. (NYSE: ALU) Cut to Market Perform at Bernstein. American Water Works…
Jon OggEach weekend we review the many analyst calls we track during the week. Some turn out to be very insightful and some turn out to be not so great. For better…
Jon OggThese are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (NYSE: ASX) Cut to Neutral at BofA/ML. Apple Inc.…
US equity markets opened lower this morning and never moved into positive territory all day. Greek debt swap negotiations made no discernible progress today and there was no scheduled data on tap…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Monday morning. AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVAV) Raised to Buy at Goldman…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Monday morning. Amgen Corporation (NASDAQ: AMGN) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan. Comerica…
Jon OggThis last week was a bad end to a bad quarter and the research calls were very mixed. We went through the numerous upgrades and downgrades to identify which calls were…
Jon OggThese are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Started as Buy with $495 target…
Homeowners get clobbered in the press as the housing depression worsens. Hackers hit ADP servers and worry grows about safety of payroll data. Market revolt about Target earnings. The Flame Index started…
