Markets opened higher this morning following a solid report on US retail sales. Reports on both consumer and small business confidence both showed improvement in February (more coverage here and here). In…
Jon OggThese are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. ACE Ltd. (NYSE: ACE) Added to Conviction Buy List at Goldman Sachs. Apartment…
All three major US indexes opened lower this morning following the report that US GDP grew by 2.8% in the fourth quarter. A rise of 3% was expected. Combined with the lack…
Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) has turned in the conglomerate’s earnings for the fourth quarter. The company reported a sales gain of 8% to $9.5 billion. The company attributed its 7% organic…
Jon C. Ogg Markets opened lower this morning on mixed reaction to the $641 billion borrowing spree from the European Central Bank. Technology stocks were weighed down by poor earnings report and uninspired guidance from…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. BorgWarner Inc. (NYSE: BWA) Started as Buy at Stern Agee. CenturyLink, Inc.…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE: AKS) Raised to Outperform from Market…
Equities started the day with a solid move up, but lost momentum after about half an hour. The downward move lasted into the late morning, at which time stocks started a fitful…
These are some of Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Aixtron SE (NASDAQ: AIXG) Raised to Equalweight at Morgan Stanley. Alcatel-Lucent SA (NYSE: ALU) Cut…
Japan acts to lower the yen before the upcoming G20 meeting. (Reuters) Beacon Power (NASDAQ: BCON), backed by U.S. funds, goes bankrupt. (Reuters) Young and well-educated Greeks begin to leave the country.…
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) must be in real trouble, even worse than what we have all been fearing. Rob Gillette is out as CEO. The circumstances behind the news were not…
3M Co. (NYSE: (NYSE: MMM) is standing apart from its competing conglomerate peers. Not for the better. United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON), and General Electric Co. (NYSE:…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Friday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR), Honeywell International (NYSE: HON), Seagate…
General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) is due to report earnings early on Friday morning in the pre-market hours. Thomson Reuters has estimates for the DJIA component and conglomerate of $0.32 EPS and…
We have already seen waves and waves of earnings reports this week, yet we have many more Dow Jones Industrial Average companies reporting earnings and several other key companies that investors and…
