Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU) Cut to Sector Perform from Outperform at RBC…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. BorgWarner Inc. (NYSE: BWA) Started as Buy at Stern Agee. CenturyLink, Inc.…
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,…
Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) should finally get some vindication showing that it is truly not the next MF Global like so many rumors and short seller attacks may were suggesting. The…
Jon C. Ogg The new proposed stress tests are just one more thorn in the side for the banking sector, but analysts from Dick Bove to Meredith Whitney, as well as value and bargain investors and…
The attack on Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) is unfortunately reminiscent of larger implosions of firms formerly named Lehman and Bear Stearns. It almost does not seem to matter what Jefferies management says…
Jon C. Ogg Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) has witnessed a slide that has been almost impossible to combat. The company has denied that it has excessive exposure to Europe and it even went as…
Jon C. Ogg The markets have a “shoot first and ask questions later” mentality that is not really working too well for Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) right now. After the MF Global implosion, investors…
Jon C. Ogg 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…
The coming week is going to feel like a mini earnings season. We have many sector leaders reporting earnings and the fallout (or benefits) could be widespread. On deck are key earnings…
Wikimedia Commons (Adina Firestone)13D filings are often full of surprises, and this morning is no exception. Carl Icahn has an amended filing this morning regarding his 9.4% stake in Clorox Corporation (NYSE:…
Earnings season is supposed to be over. Guess again. This coming week is going to feel like the earnings floodgates are open and the companies reporting have market-moving and sector-moving abilities. Monday…
Earnings season is supposed to be over, but we have a packed week full of earnings due from off-calendar quarterly earnings reports. We have compiled Thomson Reuters estimates and added color where…
Leucadia National Corp. (NYSE: LUK) is generally touted as one of the baby Berkshires…. meaning it is treated along the same lines as Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) and Warren Buffett. The…
Chinese Solar stocks, as measured by Tickerspy’s Chinese Solar Stocks Index (*CHSOL), are up over 4.5% today. The solar sector has performed poorly in recent weeks as a policy shift in Germany,…
