Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Monday. AK Steel Holdings Corporation (NYSE: AKS) named Bear of the Day at…
Yesterday Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) filed a report with the US Securities and Exchange Commission indicating that the company’s total US payments volume fell by -3% and that US debit card payment…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings for the Berkshire Hathaway empire. This cut off date is as of March 31,…
Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V) and Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) should both be trading higher this morning if you were only looking at the earnings reports from Wednesday. Both credit card processing outfits…
The major US stock indexes opened lower this morning following dismal reports from Europe on manufacturing (our coverage here) and unemployment (more coverage here). The ADP report on US unemployment provided more…
Last week, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced that it sold 35.1 million iPhones worldwide in the latest quarter. The figure is large, but not extraordinary. Some consumer products and consumer electronics companies sell…
Earnings season is in full swing and the coming week is going to be extremely active with big earnings reports. 24/7 Wall St. has tried to preview several top earnings for the week…
A judge objects to parts of an AIG (NYSE: AIG) suit to block a Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) settlement over mortgage bond sales. (Reuters) Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) earnings are better than…
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) will be in the news quite a bit now that the world’s most famous investor, chairman Warren Buffett, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. We…
We noted earlier this morning how lenders and credit card issuers were trying to beef up revenues by going back into the sub-prime market. Another way banks and card issuers boost revenue…
US credit card giants Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) and Mastercard Inc. (NYSE: MA) have reported possible security breaches to law enforcement officials and card-issuing banks. A report on the KrebsonSecurity blog cites…
The three major US equities indexes opened higher this morning after another (small) drop in new unemployment benefits claims and a good, but smaller-than-expected, rise in personal income and spending data (our…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP) Started as Buy at UBS. First Solar…
We are seeing some surprise moves for all-time high stocks this Wednesday. Some are even moving without the benefit of fresh news. Core Laboratories NV (NYSE: CLB) almost made it to $125.00 today and…
American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) has released its data on delinquencies and write-off statistics regarding its U.S. Card Services unit. The data spans the last three months and the improvements are still…
