These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this morning. Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. (NYSE: AEM) Cut to Hold at Canaccord Genuity. Avalon Rare Metals…
The sovereign debt forest fire moved to Hungary, the debt of which was downgraded to junk status by Moody’s . Other factors were even more important as the fate of the EU…
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is back with some dirt cheap offers in smartphones, and some of these may seem to be good to be true. While this may include Verizon Communications Inc.…
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) posts mediocre earnings but says it hopes to steady its businesses over the balance of the year. (Reuters) Store chains will have to offer large discounts to lure shoppers.…
Yields on what Spain had to pay for $4 billion in debt reached record levels. That is similar to what happened to paper issued recently by France and Italy. Rising yields are…
Data from Piper Jaffray shows that Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) App business brought deverlopers $3.4 billion in revenue so far in 2011. Revenue for developers of apps for Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) Android was…
The supercommittee appears unlikely to settle on a deficit agreement. (Reuters) A senior Chinese official says he expects the global recession to last for some time. (Reuters) Spain’s center-right People’s Party gains…
Among the hundreds of technology stocks, there are a relative handful of companies that stand out as bellwethers for the entire industry. Some are on the list for historical reasons; others are…
Concerns about the price of oil have returned after a summer in which both crude and gasoline prices fell. Slow production from OPEC nations is not to blame. Libyan production is actually…
The super committee makes no significant decisions on the budget deficit. (Reuters) The largest shareholder in Olympus cuts its position. (Reuters) Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) launches its new music service. (Reuters) Germany and…
So little is left of Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK), at least in terms of common equity value, that the board should let shareholders do what they can to salvage what remains of…
Facebook hit by a bug that put porn and graphic violence images onto many pages. (Reuters) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) names Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Robert Iger to its board. (Reuters) Dell…
These ETF products which trade in the U.S. but are composed of a bunch of internationally listed shares are often a bit sluggish on their trading. Now we have a new ETF that…
No one knows quite how Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will make money on its Android mobile OS. Some of the software in the OS may violate Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) patents.…
