The blame cycle that has emerged about which company caused the collapse of the Deepwater Horizon rig has come around to a cement plug. The “device” is supposed to seal the pipe…
Reuters: Doubts about the EU plan drove markets down. Reuters: SEC and the exchanges will boost market rules to prevent huge sell-offs. Reuters: A Fed official said nations must rebalance their inward and outward…
What happens when you have a huge rally and you still see many popular stocks not performing at all or hardly up at all on the broad market? Traders either chase the…
Executives at Devon Energy Corp. (NYSE:DVN) are probably congratulating themselves on their foresight this week. The company has spent the last year divesting itself of virtually all its assets in the Gulf…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
These are some of the top analyst calls seen so far this Friday morning from the upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street firms: Aixtron AG (NASDAQ: AIXG) Cut to Hold at…
Morningstar has issued a report this week for oil services operations calling the opportunity in Iraq as “one of the greatest capacity increases in the industry’s history.” The analysis says that the…
Ecuador is a relatively unknown member of OPEC, due mostly to its up and down relationship with the cartel. Ecuador first joined OPEC in 1973, then in 1992 suspended its membership for…
Acquisitions, joint ventures, and ratings news in the oil patch have made for a busy day or two, and have also pointed out a handful of reasons pointing to a reasonable reason…
These are this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research notes this morning: Apartment Investment & Management Co. (NYSE: AIV) Raised to Sector Perform at RBC Capital.…
These are ten of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs. Computer Programs…
By Paul Ausick of 24/7 Wall St. Halliburton (HAL) reported fourth-quarter 2009 net income of $243 million (EPS of $0.27), down 48% from $468 million (EPS of $0.87) in the same period…
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…
We may have had earnings season officially start with Alcoa this week, but next week will be the real week for the launch of earnings season. We now have an index to…
Reuters: Microsoft (MSFT) is putting more R&D in India. Reuters: CIT (CIT) confirmed that it rasied $3 billion. Reuters: Bernanke said Fed can control inflation. Reuters: California lawmakers agreed to a state…
