Jon OggInvestors always seem to be looking for new good research-driven investing ideas for stocks to buy and for stocks to sell. Some of these come from independent research shops and some…
Wikimedia CommonsIt is probably of little comfort to existing shareholders that Citadel Investment Group is selling its remaining stake in E*Trade Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: ETFC). The near 10% stake will pressure shares…
courtesy of NetflixThe head of marketing at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) criticizes Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android software and its largest adopter, Samsung. (Reuters) Citadel will sell the shares it still has…
Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU) raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley and reiterated Hold…
ThinkstockCorporate governance issues are sometimes a blessing for shareholders, but they also can crush the rights of shareholders in many cases. Tracking CEO pay of large public companies is now considered open hunting…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning, with the Nasdaq Composite lower on a weak quarterly earnings report last night from Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC). The big news for today came out…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen so far this Friday from Wall St. research calls: ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) raised to Neutral from Sell at Goldman…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following the report that new claims for unemployment benefits had fallen by 37,000 to a level not seen since 2008 (more coverage here). The government…
ThinkstockWith banks having been the best DJIA sector in 2012, the outlook versus the valuation has started to play a game of catch-up as we are getting deeper into earnings season this…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen so far from Wall St, research calls this Monday: American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) cut to Neutral on valuation/price…
For all practical purposes, credit card delinquencies have been improving and improving for close to the last three years. That is perhaps coming to an end. It was in October that Fitch…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning, but the blame goes to some poor earnings report from U.S. firms rather than to international news. European markets were down slightly…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning and really never got on track the entire day. The lower opening was likely a reaction to China’s weakest quarterly GDP growth…
Delinquencies at Capital One Financial Corp.’s (NYSE: COF) U.S. credit-card business rose in August from the month earlier, while charge-offs slipped, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The…
When the market is strong, companies tend to raise capital. Or insiders decide to cash in some chips. We now have a whole slew of companies conducting secondary offerings now: BreitBurn Energy Partners…
