There is an interesting merger this morning in the credit card processing industry. Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is acquiring CyberSource Corporation (NASDAQ: CYBS) for $26 per share in a deal valued at…
There are many more significant calls than we expected in this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Maintained as…
Reuters: The Chinese president told Obama that the nation will make its own decision on the yuan. Reuters: Growth and cheap phones were key to Q1 industry growth. Reuters: Twitter will start…
Consumer borrowing dropped in February by 5.6% to an annual rate of $2.45 trillion, according to the Federal Reserve. Revolving credit, a good proxy for credit card debt, dropped by 13.1%. Nearly everyone…
These are this Monday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Akamai Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) Cut to Hold at Citigroup. Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) Raised…
A look at the “hardest working” major brands for 2009 shows that a number of them belong to companies which have done poorly and, in at least one case, may file Chapter…
These are this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank. CIENA Corp. (NASDAQ: CIEN) Cut…
These are this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in early all Street research calls: Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) Cut to Conviction Sell at Goldman Sachs. Alcoa Inc. (NYSE:…
These are this Monday’s top 10 analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, and Initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) Raised to Overweight at Barclays. Airvana Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRV) Cut to…
These are this Friday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Air Products & Chemicals (NYSE: APD) Started as Outperform at William Blair. Akamai Technologies, Inc.…
MasterCard Spending Plus, which tracks retail sales, says that consumer electronics products are moving off the shelves of stores but women’s apparel is not. A Wall Street Journal analysis of the data…
We are right at a week away from the highly awaited Black Friday for 2009’s holiday and Christmas season. As you likely know, this is THE day that retailers look forward to…
The use of social networks to sell products and services gets more complex by the day. The latest scheme to tap into the swarms of people who congregate at Facebook is a…
Earnings season may be winding down, but next week still has some very important companies that are economic indicators in and of themselves or are key stocks that have broad customer and…
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is reporting some stellar earnings considering the environment and this appears to be the 6th or 7th beat against estimates. The credit card processing giant posted $0.74 non-GAAP…
