China’s GDP grew at a 9.5% rate last quarter and the country increased inflation forecasts (Reuters) Moody’s cut Ireland’s rating to junk (Reuters) EU leaders may let Greece default (Reuters) Netflix (NASDAQ:…
Jon Ogg24/7 Wall St. usually covers ten to fifteen analyst calls each morning that are having an impact on shares. After going through these research calls at the end of the week…
The coming week will be the unofficial start of earnings season, with the major flow of corporate earnings reports seeing the floodgates opening the following week. We have already identified the 15…
Jon OggThis was a strange day in the markets, not just because the non-farm payrolls and unemployment rate were far worse than expected. It is just not that often that you see…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated Buy and raised target to $500…
JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM) may become the largest lender in the U.S. soon (Reuters) Jobs numbers may show that the economy has finally turned the corner (Reuters) Fitch downgraded Minnesota from AAA…
24/7 Wall St. is probably not alone in noticing that there were very few earnings warnings issued by the major companies that dictate market trends going into the end of June. That…
It would have been hard to imagine just a year ago that Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) growth engine would be the phone business. It has turned out that the most exciting developments at…
The press has given the joint venture between Facebook and Skype to deliver video chat a large amount of coverage. Facebook Video Calling does not offer anything new. Skype has had video…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Started as Neutral at Collins Stewart. Baidu,…
HTC, the Taiwan based smartphone company, posted extraordinary earnings for its fiscal second quarter. Earnings more than doubled to $608 million, exceeding most analysts forecasts. The firm said much of its success was…
Banks object to plans that would allow regulators to clawback pay if a bank becomes troubled and has to be liquidated (Reuters) Geithner has not told The White House he wants to…
The new data from comScore on US carrier networks for smartphones is beyond alarming. It is not just confirming a trend, but confirming that there is no sign of a negative trend…
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) now offers 100,000 apps for the iPad, according to MacStories. The iPhone has four times that many, but the iPad has only been on the market for a year.…
24/7 Wall St. wrote Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) about their new English search joint venture and the response was “Baidu and Microsoft announced that Bing, Microsoft’s decision engine, will…
