These are this Monday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms: Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) Raised to Buy at Jefferies. Incyte Corporation (NASDAQ: INCY) Started as…
Reuters: Investors in the banking sector were disturbed by the CIT (NYSE:CIT) bankruptcy. Reuters: Summers will lead a high level meeting on the economy. Reuters: US companies are holding more cash. Reuters: …
Earnings season may be winding down, but next week still has some very important companies that are economic indicators in and of themselves or are key stocks that have broad customer and…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 12.33 PM EST: The CIA will start spying on social media activity (CNET) Updated 10.15 AM EST: Oil could hit $175 a barrel by 2016 making oil-realted…
Reuters: Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) beat earnings forecasts. Reuters: The IRS is probing some homebuyers’ tax credit gains. Reuters: The US is ready to bring more insider trading cases. Reuters: More US companies are…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 12.02 PM EST: Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) will have a national roll-out of its “no contract” cellular service which could put sales pressure on Sprint (NYSE:S) (Reuters) Updated 9.23…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 3.14 PM EST: STIC (NASDAQ:STIC) dropping on rumors that Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) database applications may hurt STIC sales (Barron’s) Updated 3.11 PM EST: Level 3 (NASDAQ:LVLT) is surging…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 1.39 PM EST: Charles G. Ward, III, a senior executive at Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) will be named interim CEO at the company pending the recovery of Bruce Wasserstein. (various)…
GE (NYSE:GE) investors are thrilled that the conglomerate may be able to rid itself of its underperforming media unit, NBC Universal. It appears that GE is close to a deal with cable…
Reuters: E-mails and the credit crisis will be key to the trial of Bear Stearns workers. Reuters: The approval process for Tengzhong to buy Hummer has started in China. Reuters: Philips Electronics…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 2:00 PM EST: American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC) has traded higher all day and some are noting takeover chatter on this one. We have yet to see…
Updated throughout the day. Updated 2:44 Dell Inc. (NYSE: DELL) will launch a branded Android smartphone thru AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and possibly other carriers next year. Source today is from WSJ,…
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has reviewed the ramifications of reports about General Electric Co.’s (NYSE: GE) plans for NBC Universal. The ratings agency has said that a partial sale or IPO…
There were many more upgrades than downgrades seen early this Monday morning. These are top upgrades and positive research calls from Wall Street analysts we have seen so far: Capital One Financial…
Updates throughout the day. Update: Jeff Bewkes, CEO of Time-Warner (TWX) who says “Time, Inc. is not for sale.” (Atlantic First Draft of American History Conference) Update: John Paulson and Angelo Gordon may…
