These are this Tuesday morning’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) Started as Market Outperform at JMP Securities. BB&T Corp. (NYSE:…
John Paulson is rather notorious, and wealthy, for how much he picked up by shorting financial stocks on the way down. But the financial world found out in August that Paulson &…
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve reported that 9 out of 10 bank holding companies that were required to raise additional capital to bolster their balance sheets have successfully done so. The Supervisory Capital…
These are this Thursday morning’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen in early research calls from Wall Street: ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) Raised to Buy at Societe Generale. BioMarin…
This morning you are getting the broader summaries without links to VSInvestor.com because of an issue at the hosting and publishing side that has caused a temporary outage. Here are brief morning…
These are this Monday’s top ten analyst calls from Wall Street for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations: BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) Started as Neutral at HSBC. Delphi Financial (NYSE: DFG) Started as Outperform…
Investors who have dumped CIT (NYSE:CIT) stock since September 29 are looking smart. The shares have dropped from $1.67 on the 29th to $1.04. It appears that debtholders of paper from the…
We are seeing a very mixed picture among the analyst calls this morning over banks and financial stocks. We are seeing some very positive “BUY” calls and we are also seeing some…
These are this morning’s top day trader alerts and active trader alert stocks for Monday. We have more details on volume and price analysis on each stock covered at VSInvestor.com: Amicus Therapeutics…
These are this Monday morning’s top early-bird analyst downgrades or cautious research calls from Wall Street firms: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Cut to Market Perform at FBR. Amicus Therapeutics (FOLD) Cut to…
John Paulson has been well known as a hedge fund manager because of the profits he made from short selling many of the key financial stocks. Yet his new filing shows a…
These are the top ten pre-market analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street research this Thursday morning: Chesapeake Energy (CHK) Cut to Hold at Argus. DuPont (DD) Raised to Perform at…
There is still some conversation about the federal government restricting short-selling activity in certain stocks. The counterargument to these restrictions is that short selling plays an important role in the valuation of…
Standard & Poor’s may still have at least some relevance in its debt ratings. This morning we saw a wave of downgrades at banks by the debt ratings agency on systematic-risk and…
Finally, the stress tests are out for the US banking and financial institutions. Of the banks, 10 of 19 banks need a combined $74 billion of equity.The good news is that a…
