News related to the reduced wheat crop in Russia, followed by a ban on Russian wheat exports, have sent wheat prices along a steeply rising trajectory. Rising prices for wheat have also…
These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in the morning hours from Wall Street research notes: CA Inc. (NYSE: CA) Cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs.…
The stock market’s recent sell-off and snap-back recovery have not stopped dividend hikes. There were two big ones this morning. The unexpected dividend hike came from UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH). An unexpected,…
We have many stocks on the move this morning pre-market. Some of the big percentage changes are being seen in Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK), ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (NASDAQ: IMOS), Deere…
Earnings season is already winding down, but don’t think it is over yet. Next week we still have much in retail and we still have DJIA components and major tech companies reporting…
Recent earnings reports from machinery makers Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) and Deere & Co. (NYSE:DE) have been weak, but getting better. Caterpillar reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2009 earnings in January and Deere reported…
Many alternative energy stocks themselves may sometimes represent little more than highly leveraged bets on the price of oil. But there is still big business in the world of clean tech and…
These are this Thursday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning: Acorda Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ACOR) Cut to Market Perform at Leerink…
These are this morning’s top pre-market analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) Raised to Outperform at FBR. AGA Medical (AGAM) Started as Buy…
These are this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: American Express (NYSE: AXP) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley. Capital One (NYSE: COF) Started as…
Earnings season has mostly wound down, but as always at least some major companies are reporting earnings. Some are actually market-movers as well and it is a short week with earnings out…
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) rose over 10% to a yearly high of $7.33 after the computer processor maker announced today that it would offer $500 million in senior notes, the…
These are this Thursday’s top analyst downgrades seen from Wall Street research calls early this morning: Deere & Co. (DE) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan. eHealth (EHTH) Cut to Hold at Argus.…
These are this Thursday’s top ten independent analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street brokerage firms with more than two hours until the market opens: Corning (GLW) Started as…
These are the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen early this Tuesday morning with about two hours until the market opens Baidu.com (NASDAQ: BIDU) Started as Buy at Deutsche…
