Analyst calls are sometimes favorable and sometimes off the mark. Still, analysts move stocks and often offer keen insight not seen elsewhere. Each week we review the major analyst calls for those…
The new MacBook Pro has a price tag between $1,199 and $2,499. It is more powerful than the mainframes IBM marketed in the 1960s. The computer has quad core processors, Thunderbolt technology,…
What’s Israel’s secret to success? Being at the right place at the right time. The Jewish state’s success is all the more remarkable considering its lack of natural resources such as oil…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is among many of the established companies which has filed its annual report or 10-K with the SEC. These reports are almost always long and boring and unfortunately…
The US federal government could shut down as House Republicans battle the Administration on budget deficit matters (Reuters) Riots in Libya moved oil higher and Asia markets lower. (Reuters) Air France-KLM may…
Graphics processor maker Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) reports fourth-quarter earnings after markets close today, and analysts are expecting EPS of $0.21 on revenue of $894.6 million. When Nvidia reported its third-quarter earnings…
Investors love dividends and they love technology stocks. By and large it is hard to find very high dividend payout in technology. There are several chip stocks which pay over 3% in…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Reiterated Hold at Argus. Analog Devices Inc. (NYSE: ADI)…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) did not exactly get a resounding endorsement today in an afternoon research call. S&P Equity Research decided it was removing its Buy rating that had been in place…
Short sellers moved into the shares of companies that Wall St. views as having weak earnings capacity and poor business strategies. Shares sold short in AMD (NYSE: AMD), which recently pushed out…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is not really making any strategy changes to its portfolio of public stock holdings under its Intel Capital unit. That does not mean that it is not worth…
The method of using capital from the corporate treasury to return capital to shareholders via share repurchase programs has long been under question. Most buybacks never are fully utilized, and many simply…
Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along with customers…
NokiaStandard & Poor’s suspects that the new strategy from Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), set to be announced February 11th, is not going to be enough to boost the company’s competitive position in…
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Raised to Buy at Stern Agee.…
