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…
courtesy Boeing Co.Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) stock isn’t moving much today even though the company has made a couple of statements that are fairly positive. First, the company says it has completed…
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has just joined the dividend hike brigade. We have previously written that this would likely be the case and the hike was right in line with the upper-end…
Rockwell Collins Inc. (NYSE: COL) is trading lower after the defense firm said on Friday morning that is lowering its guidance for fiscal year 2013. The blame is over unprecedented uncertainty around…
Jon C. Ogg This proposed merger between EADSÂ and BAE is going to be more than complicated. Frankly, we also wonder about the legality of such a merger and wonder how other defense and aerospace firms…
Jon OggApparently having a short selling strategy under a hedge fund exchange-traded fund model has been working. This week we received notice that the assets under management for AdvisorShares ActiveBear ETF (NYSE: HDGE) hit a record…
Stock markets. Equity markets opened sharply higher this morning before falling into negative territory before the ISM and factory order reports were released. The ISM index came in lower than expected, but factory…
These are some of Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) Raised to Outperform at Wells Fargo. Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:…
This morning’s news out of Being Co. (NYSE: BA) about the 787 Dreamliner setting a maiden flight date before the end of this year and scheduling preliminary deliveries into Q4-2010 is really…
The rate of downgrades versus upgrades is still coming out with a much more negative bias from Wall Street. These are some of the downgrades and negative research calls we have seen…
This week is going to be the key earnings reporting week for companies tied to aerospace and defense sector stocks. If there is one area that everyone is expecting to hold up,…
The Wall Street Journal has announced that there may be (actually it says "near announcing") some new delays out of Boeing (NYSE: BA) on its 787 Dreamiliner. We first noted that the…
Below is some of the top news pre-market: Applied Materials (AMAT) reports earnings after close; estimates are $0.29 EPS & R$2.38B. BEA Systems (BEAS) said it expects to submit SEC filings tomorrow…
Shares of Boeing (NYSE:BA) are getting hit hard after the jet-maker and aerospace giant finally came clean about the delay of the Dreamliners. The DJIA component is down 3% on the day…
