Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Friday morning. AGCO Corporation (NYSE: AGCO) Maintained Outperform as Bull of…
It seems that most investors have started adding income or dividend reinvestment plans to their portfolios by using dividend stocks. With the yields of the 10-Year Treasury close to 2% and the…
The primary reason, it is often argued, that China is an important market for many large U.S. companies is that its population has doubled since the early 1960s. But the whole picture…
As each new year replaces the prior year, 24/7 Wall St. looks at the individual targets on all 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average price targets from Wall Street analysts to come up…
Wall St. expects same-store sales for December to rise 4.3%. (Reuters) Returns of holiday online gifts are expect to reach a record. (Reuters) Venezuela says it will pay Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM)…
The lineup of the Dogs of the Dow, simply the ten highest dividend yield stocks of the thirty Dow Jones Industrial Average components, appears to be undergoing a bit of change for…
Shares in semiconductor stocks have gained and lost value in about equal number during 2011. The run-up in share prices may be over for some and sustainable for others. For stocks that…
Retailers hope that “mega Monday” sales continue a string of strong retail results. (Reuters) The MF Global disaster prompts requests that the systems for grain trading to be changed. (Reuters) Chinese investment…
What happens when the industry leader who never misses earnings manages a huge disappointment? This is the question regarding Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL). The company has a near-decade of history being very…
Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is going to be an important earnings report for after the close. The company now has some hardware component sales after the Sun Microsystems bailout, something which may…
The NASDAQ has always been considering the heavyweight exchange for technology listing, and it just put on more weight today with an announcement from Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN) that the chipmaker…
Getting a dividend of over 4% from a technology company is no simple task, even as many technology leaders have decided that higher dividends can finally start to be used to reward…
Semiconductor equipment maker Lam Research Corp. (NASDAQ: LRCX) will acquire competitor Novellus Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: NVLS) in an all-stock deal worth an estimated $3.3 billion. Novellus shareholders will receive 1.125 shares of…
A CME (NASDAQ: CME) executive says Jon Corzine knew about money that MF Global transferred to European accounts. (Reuters) Accounting problems at Olympus may make it a takeover target. (Reuters) Italian bond yields hit…
Stocks opened firmly higher this morning and the DJIA rose by more than 130 points in the first hour of trading. The dollar gained strength against the euro putting more enthusiasm into…
