3M Company (NYSE: MMM) rose nearly 4% to a yearly high of $79.93 after the Post-It Notes maker was upgraded to “buy” by Jeffrey Sprague of Citigroup. The Cooper Companies Inc (NYSE:…
These are this Wednesday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from today’s Wall Street research notes: Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) Raised to Outperform at Macquarie. CA Inc. (NYSE: CA) Raised…
We have seen earnings from five of the thirty DJIA components this morning alone. All were above expectations, even if some of the year over year comparisons do not look that great…
We have already run the 5 of the 30 DJIA components that reported earnings this morning. But we still have 7 more of the 30 DJIA components reporting during the rest of…
The launch of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner has been delayed so often that it would be comical except that the aerospace firm’s shareholders and customers are not laughing. Boeing trades at $50, down…
These are the top ten analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen from Wall Street firms early this Monday morning: Allergan (AGN) Raised to Outperform at Baird. Burger King (BKC) Cut to…
This week will mark the first crest of earnings season as we have 11 of the 30 DJIA components reporting earnings this week alone. On Tuesday, we have earnings from Caterpillar Inc.…
These are the top pre-market early-bird analyst calls we have seen with about two and a half hours until the market opens this Tuesday morning: Anadarko Petroleum (APC) Raised to Buy at…
These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades we have seen from Wall Street early this Monday morning: AstraZeneca (AZN) Raised to Buy at UBS. BioMed Realty Trust (BMR) Raised to…
Jim Cramer’s featured list of stocks this week on CNBC’s MAD MONEY is on companies which have grown or will grow their dividends. Tonight, Cramer touted Proctor & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG)…
It looks like Jim Cramer is doing a new feature list of companies this week that may actually grow their dividends or that have boosted dividends. On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC,…
Standard & Poor’s has just downgraded conglomerate 3M Company’s (NYSE: MMM) corporate credit and senior unsecured ratings to “AA-” from “AA.” It affirmed the “A-1+” short-term credit rating and the new outlook…
The Dow Jones industrial average, or DJIA, is perhaps the mostly widely recognized index in the world. When people talk about “The Market” in cabs and in bars, and on the phone,…
Dow Chemical Co. (NYSE: DOW) probably would have had a much better day if the market did not plunge at the end of the day. In university finance classes they teach you…
3M Co. (NYSE: MMM) just did the opposite of what many large companies are doing in the current liquidity-crunched environment. The conglomerate just raised its dividend to $0.51 per share. We have…
