This is the real week for earnings season where the floodgates open. That is particularly the case for some of the top banks, investment banks, and brokers. Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:…
The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is seeing some buying interest based upon an influential analyst call. Meredith Whitney Advisory has raised the rating on this investment bank and brokerage firm,…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are the top pre-market upgrades and downgrades seen early this Monday morning ahead of the earnings season rush: Best Buy (BBY) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer. Capella Education (CPLA) Cut to…
Reuters: Social media such as Twitter may not be worth as much as many people believe because of challenges they face in bringing in revenue. Reuters: The arrests of Rio Tinto (RTP)…
These are the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls we have seen from Wall Street early this Thursday morning: Amdocs (DOX) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer. Chevron (CVX) Started as…
Reuters: The economic crisis will dominate the G8 summit. Reuters: A NY court ruled against AIG (AIG) in a battle with former CEO Greenberg. Reuters: Google (GOOG) will launch an operating system…
Reuters: Japanes Topix index is expect to rise to 1,000. Reuters: The US may need a second stimulus package. Reuters: Hospitals have agreed to contribute $155 billion over ten years to help…
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is said to have either the best in-house and proprietary trading models or at least the best of the large bulge bracket firms. This weekend came…
Douglas A. McIntyre Goldman Sachs (GS) recently said that media reports that its employees would make huge sums based on the firm’s 2009 earnings were not true. It turns out that they probably are. In…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: California declared a financial emergency. Reuters: An SEC attorney raised concern about a Madoff report in 2004. Reuters: Auto parts supplier Lear filed for bankruptcy. Reuters: NYC apartment sales are down…
Analysts were appalled when Goldman Sachs (GS) paid a 10% coupon on a $5 billion investment made by Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A)(BRK-B) in September of last year. He also was given…
The Treasury said that it plans to dispose of the warrants that it got from banks as part of bail out financing given to, and, in some cases, forced upon major US…
Ken Heebner of CGM Funds is often a guest on CNBC after the FOMC decision on rates. His sphere of great influence has withered as the CGM Focus Fund (CGMFX) has been…
John Mack of Morgan Stanley (MS) made sure that he had a large base salary for this year, even though his firm nearly fell apart last year. The management of Citigroup (C)…
Deutsche Bank says that the commercial real estate market in America will not recover until 2017. Richard Parkus, Deutsche Bank head of Commercial Mortgage-backed Securities and Asset-Backed Securities Synthetics Research, told Reuters…