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…
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) said that the press was mistaken when several media reported the world’s largest retailer would create a national medical clinic system within its stores. The denial hardly matters. Walmart is…
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…
October may have been one of the best months of many of our lives in equities. The SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) rose by 10.9%. in October, but the year-to-date gain has been…
Markets opened lower this morning, and continued to fall before holding at around -150 points for most of the day on the DJIA. Japan’s yen sale pushed the dollar sharply higher and…
S&P 500 YTD TOP 10 (31Dec10 – 29Sep11) Ticker YTD Price Change (%) Close Price 29Sep11 Close Price 31Dec10 Market Cap($Mil) Short Interest as % of Shares Cabot Oil & Gas Corp…
Jon OggThese are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan. Dollar…
Obama offers a $3.6 billion deficit reduction plan that includes a tax on the rich. (Reuters) S&P cuts Italy one notch and says its outlook is negative. (Reuters) Head of UBS (NYSE:…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) Started as Outperform at BMO. Ariad…
Jon OggThese are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Abaxis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABAX) maintained Underperform as Bear of the…
