The social media hype around the Facebook IPO is driving many shares in the sector of online social media. Some of the Halo-effect may not even be deserved, and this has all…
Facebook, Inc. has now filed its paperwork with the SEC which will allow the social networking giant to conduct an initial public offering. It should be no real surprise that financial terms…
Everyone is awaiting an S-1 Filing from Facebook. It is the talk of the entire financial community and it is going to be one of the most anticipated IPOs ever rather than…
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) has come out with a set of upgrades in the bank and brokerage sector this morning. These are the sort of calls that when a firm…
Jon OggThis last week brought many new analyst calls in key stocks. At the end of each week we review research calls looking for the best gems, the calls that made serious…
Facebook is now rumored to be filing its IPO paperwork as soon as next week. The ‘rumor’ is coming out of a report from the Wall Street Journal that Morgan Stanley (NYSE:…
Markets opened mixed this morning, with the DJIA and S&P 500 opening lower and the Nasdaq Composite opening higher. The Nasdaq was getting a big push from the very strong earnings report…
Updated throughout the day at The Wire Sony (NYSE: SNE) may make a $1.3 billion investment in troubled Olympus (Reuters) Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is about to sell its London headquarters for…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Wednesday morning. DaVita, Inc. (NYSE: DVA) Raised to Outperform as Bull…
Two different reports from analysts in the agriculture and fertilizer segment have the global growth and the “move to two meals a day for the emerging world” arguments a bit under fire…
Of the 76 companies included in the S&P 500 index that have reported earnings through last week, 55% have beat expectations according to S&P Capital IQ consensus estimates. The largest year-over-year growth…
The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is being downgraded in a somewhat unusual call by the team at Zacks Investment Research. The old and already considered a bit cautious rating of Neutral…
Jon C. Ogg Remember those mortgage bonds the Federal Reserve bought when it bailed out American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG). Today the NY Fed sold $7.01 billion worth of the bonds to Credit Suisse…
Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) files for Chapter 11. (Reuters) Greece and its private lenders work toward a last-hour compromise on a debt exchange. (Reuters) BP (NYSE: BP) likely to set a $20…
Markets opened slightly lower in the US this morning, but picked up steam in the morning and continued to rise, if slowly, for the rest of the day. The tech sector showed…
