Markets opened lower today and of the three major indexes, only the S&P 500 was able to break through to positive territory and stay there for most of the day. The DJIA…
US equity markets opened sharply higher this morning and have been able to sustain and even add to those gains throughout the day. Business and consumer confidence indexes in Europe were higher,…
US equity markets opened solidly higher this morning, but began to lose momentum by mid-morning. From there it’s been a mostly downhill day with the DJIA creeping back to nearly flat with…
Stocks in homebuilders have been down so low for so long that almost anything look like up. Recent earnings releases have indicated that new orders are improving, but much of the improvement…
Our look at stock target prices focuses on homebuilders and home improvement stores today. It is not news that U.S. homebuilders have had a very tough few years. In the past five…
The number of foreclosures filed in the third calendar quarter of 2011 totaled 610,337, an increase of less than 1% from the second quarter and a drop of 34% from the same…
Today’s top debt rating story has to be the downgrade by Moody’s of Italian bonds by three notches, from ‘Aa2’ to ‘A2’, while keeping a negative outlook on the country’s debt. And…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Amerisafe, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMSF) named Bear of the Day at…
This week is starting to look a bit different for housing and homebuilders and it is a serious matter in considering that the news of the world and the less recent housing…
Earnings season has all but ended as far as the great market-movers. That does not mean that there are not some interesting companies reporting earnings that need to be watched. The corporate…
Homebuilder PulteGroup Inc. (NYSE: PHM) employed more than 13,000 people at the end of 2005. The company now employs less than 4,800, and that number is set to fall again, but as…
It is hard to call the market weak right now even if today was a mixed day. We have seen a meteoric rise from the bottom. So what happens when you see…
The dark side of investment banking beyond Initial Public Offerings usually revolves around secondary offerings and when companies raise capital via securities sales. Generally speaking, these can offer investors a chance to…
Analysts at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) have had a revelation. The company has added homebuilder PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE: PHM) to its ‘Conviction Buy’ list. The only possible explanation is that…
The research reports are getting thinner and thinner into the holidays. These are some of this Thursday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. American Greetings Corp.…
