These are not all of the analyst calls affecting shares, but these are the initial calls we are focusing on early this Friday morning: Alliance Data Systems (NYSE: ADS) Raised to Buy…
Fearing a reprise of the 2000 catastrophe which wrecked hundreds of tech companies, big firms in the sector are hording cash. The only trouble with the idea is that the firms putting…
According to Reuters, the head of Samsung has been indicted for tax evasion. Reuters writes Ebay (EBAY) profits rose 22%, but the company was cautious about the rest of the year. Reuters…
The market was buoyed by Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) earnings. It should have been. Gross margins were good, Year-over-year results were fine. If there was any concern about the quarterly report is was the…
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has come up with a canny way to increase its revenue during a recession. It will loan companies money to buy its software. Redmond has always had a deft…
Over the last week, both major financials and techs sold off substantially, another sign that one major sector is doing nothing to offset the other. Taken in tandem with GE’s (NYSE: GE)…
Most companies on Nasdaq did fairly well with the shorts in the period which ended on March 31 compared to March 14. The two tremendous exceptions were Level 3 (LVLT) where short…
One topic we cover at 247WallSt.com with regularity is share buybacks from major companies. While we are starting to see a slower pace in fresh buyback announcements compared to 2006 and 2007,…
Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) was started as an Outperform rating this morning at FBR. The assigned target price was $31.00 per share. This follows the UBS downgrade from yesterday morning, which helped…
There are other analyst calls affecting shares this morning, but these are ten of the top calls that we are focusing on this Thursday in pre-market trading:AFLAC (NYSE: AFL) cut to Neutral…
With all of the carnage in the financial sector it would be hard to believe that any other group of stocks could have done worse. The technology sector claims that, for the…
Goldman Sachs has made some changes this morning in its coverage team that analyzes communications technology. For starters, the overall stance on the group has been changed down to a Neutral view…
We routinely look over major changes in short interest from period to period. While the more frequent twice-monthly reporting is conducted by exchanges, it sometimes gives a little insight into the psyche…
Oracle’s (ORCL) earnings were excellent by any measure except, perhaps, the perverse yard-stick of Wall St. Revenue rose 21% and profits were up 30% To say in another way, margins improved sharply,…
Short interest for number of tech stocks listed on Nasdaq rose on March 14 compared to figures from February . Shares short in Microsoft (MSFT) spiked up 7.4 million to 123.1 million.…
