These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Wednesday. Allstate Corp. (NYSE: ALL) reiterated Buy but raised target to $46 at Argus,…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Tuesday. Annaly Capital Management Inc. (NYSE: NLY) maintained Neutral but cut target to $17…
ThinkstockHumana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) said this morning that its third-quarter net income fell 4.3% but it lifted its earnings outlook for the full year. The health care company also announced a pair…
Trey Thoelcke The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning on an absence of new data from overseas and an expected drop in new claims for unemployment benefits did not occur (our…
Jon OggThese are the top analyst calls of upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. ADTRANÂ Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.…
Now that the healthcare constitutionality argument has passed, healthcare and insurance providers are consolidating. WellPoint Inc. (NYSE: WLP) just announced that it was acquiring AMERIGROUP Corporation (NYSE: AGP) in a $4.9 billion transaction in…
If you were watching the reactions in the market after the Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare as being constitutional as a tax, you might think that the healthcare insurance providers are suddenly…
Thursday was D-Day for the Supreme Court decision on the Obama healthcare mandate as to its constitutionality. The long and short of it is that the mandate is constitutional as a tax…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Wednesday. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated Buy with $670 target at Argus; Zacks…
The major US stock indexes opened slightly lower this morning and continued drifting lower all day. The Chicago PMI report got the day started on the wrong foot, showing a decline in…
US equity markets opened lower this morning and never moved into positive territory all day. Greek debt swap negotiations made no discernible progress today and there was no scheduled data on tap…
Health insurer Wellpoint Inc. (NYSE: WLP) is changing its fee schedule for primary care physicians. Like other insurers Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET), Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), and Cigna Inc. (NYSE: CI), Wellpoint’s…
Equity markets opened mixed this morning, with the DJIA up slightly and the NASDAQ Composite and S&P 500 down slightly. That pattern held throughout the day as last night’s report from Google…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Friday morning. BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) Cut to Neutral at Citigroup.…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Friday (the 13th) morning. American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) Started…
