Monday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Blue Buffalo Pet Products, Cisco Systems, JC Penney, JPMorgan, Micron Technology and Tesla Motors.
One area that remains very cheap on a price-to-earnings basis is the financials, and in a new research report Oppenheimer upgrades the sector to Overweight.
ThinkstockThere may be more upside ahead in the big banks. This week brought a research report from Barclays showing that the big banks are more attractive now than they were in the prior…
Facebook already passed Wal-Mart Stores; that is old news. But now Facebook has passed General Electric, and it even recently surpassed JPMorgan as well.
Jon C. Ogg 24/7 Wall St. cannot help but wonder if investors are finally ready to place a premium on book value in Bank of America and in Citigroup now that the bottom in the…
ThinkstockThe Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) last week published its first Monthly Complaint Report, providing data the agency has collected regarding consumer complaints collected during the first four years of its existence.…
thinkstockJuly 14, 2015: Markets opened mixed on Tuesday following the announcement of a deal between Iran and a group of countries including the U.S. related to the Iranian nuclear development program. Crude…
JPMorgan reported better-than-expected second-quarter fiscal 2015 results before markets opened Tuesday morning.
Paul Ausick JPMorgan Chase is scheduled to report its second-quarter financial results before the markets open on Tuesday.
Chris Lange A coalition of 17 companies announced Monday morning a job creation program called the 100,000 Opportunities Alliance.
Earnings season for the second quarter of the calendar year has kicked off, and 24/7 Wall St. has put together a preview of some of the Dow Jones companies that are reporting…
One sector that will be watched closely next week is the big banks, all of which report second-quarter earnings during the week.
thinkstockJuly 9, 2015: Markets opened higher on Thursday and that’s when the major indexes posted their daily highs. New claims for unemployment benefits remain at close to the averages for full employment…
thinkstockJuly 8, 2015: Markets opened lower on Wednesday but that’s not even half the story. A technical issue shut down the New York Stock Exchange in the morning and trading did not…
thinkstockJuly 2, 2015: Markets opened higher on Thursday but equities slowly and steadily slipped lower and lower as the trading session went on. The non-farm payroll report for June was weaker than…
