When you see a ten-day sell-off and a capstone panic day with what is a 300-point sell-off in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the first reaction is that no one wants anything…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Cut to Sell at S&P Equity Research. Altria…
Next week will mark the true ‘opening the floodgates’ for earnings season. We have given some brief earnings previews and added in color for the DJIA components set to report earnings in…
If Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO), Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI), Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD), and Molson Coors Brewing Company (NYSE: TAP) should keep an eye on efforts to legalize marijuana. The…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 225 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Updated throughout the day. Premium content service Hulu is for sale (NYT, WSJ, AP) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will launch a faster iPhone this September (Bloomberg) Altria (NYSE: MO) and Philip Morris (NYSE:…
The FDA is about to give some serious warning labels on cigarette labels. Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO), Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI), Lorillard, Inc. (NYSE: LO) and Vector Group Ltd. (NYSE:…
We may have just witnessed an oversold bounce in the stock market, or we may be in for more days of recovery. The markets are flirting with six weeks of negative performance…
Stocks are still correcting as economic data keeps coming in weaker and weaker. Now the media keeps routinely talking up what we called a supporting call for QE3. Please, no QE3! Still,…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. Altria Group, Inc. (NYSE: MO) Reiterated Buy and Raised target to…
Now that the 10-Year Treasury Note has been back to close to the 3.00% yields again, we wanted to see which Dow Jones Industrial Average components had a higher dividend yield than…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. AETNA Inc. (NYSE: AET) Raised to Buy at Citigroup. Altria Group…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (NYSE: APD) Reiterated Buy and $108…
Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) is seeing its stock do what many investors a decade ago might have bet against. The stock is hitting what is an all-time high if you factor…
The process of brand valuation is more an art than a science, or at least that is the conclusion of research done by 24/7 Wall St. The most well-regarded “brand evaluators” rarely…
