Short sellers moved out of stocks that have fallen recently. Perhaps they believe there will be a large rally in the market. There is little else to make the shares of companies…
A company can spend billions of dollars on R&D and get little respect as an innovator. Even though that is the conclusion of a new study by Booz & Co., the conclusion…
It’s that time of year again, when proxies are released and many business publications run lists of the highest paid CEOs at America’s large public companies. The compensation figures are extraordinarily high,…
Alcatel-LucentIt was not that long ago that Alcatel-Lucent SA (NYSE: ALU) was being thrown around as the best networking stock of 2011. It had risen from under $3.00 per ADR at the…
Each morning 24/7 Wall St. compiles a summary of the analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research firms that are having an impact on stocks. At the end of…
Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) Cut to Market Perform at…
Last week’s announcement of the iPhone 4S from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been followed up with the company’s announcement that it has taken 1 million pre-orders for the new phone in…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and  moves in shares of Apple, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C), Cisco Systems,…
Short sellers appear ready to follow bank stocks all the way down to zero, at least based on data for the period that ended September 15. Shares short in Citigroup (NYSE: C)…
Some boards of directors of America’s largest public companies have shown such poor judgment guiding their troubled corporations that they have long stopped being effective. Just recently, the misguided actions of the…
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is set to report earnings after the close of trading Tuesday and investors are likely to be paying close attention to the body language offered up in the…
Some companies become so badly damaged because of changes in the competitive markets or due to poor management decisions that their employees lose hope. This may be due to the fact that…
Jon OggEach morning we review our top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street research notes. We then look back over these at the end of the week to more closely…
Jon OggThese are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Alkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALKS) Removed from US 1 List but…
Moody’s cuts ratings of France’s Credit Agricole and Societe Generale as Greek debt trouble spreads. (Reuters) Federal Reserve may try to help the economy with more bond purchases. (Reuters) Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO)…
