Earnings season may be winding down but there are still sector-moving companies due to report earnings this week. We will be watching earnings for AutoZone Inc. (NYSE: AZO), Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ:…
Next week looks like the wind-down of earnings season with the exception of the off-calendar quarter companies. There are no DJIA components we saw on the calendar but there are several big…
They say there is an ETF for everything. Now comes the launch by First Trust Advisors L.P. for a Smartphone ETF. The First Trust NASDAQ CEA Smartphone Index Fund (NASDAQ: FONE) offers…
These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) Cut to Equal-Weight at Barclays. Arch Coal…
Yesterday brought on a very unusual volume alert for active traders in shares of Atheros Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHR), which was briefly halted on a circuit breaker spike. The cause was a…
These are some of this Friday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Airgas Inc. (NYSE: ARG) Raised to Outperform at Baird. Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE)…
These are some of this Friday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Banco Santander S.A. (NYSE: STD) Raised to Overweight at HSBC. Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM)…
These are some of this Friday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP) Raised to Buy at Argus. Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML)…
Texas Instruments saw its shares rise in the after-hours on Thursday on word of a dividend hike and a monster share buyback plan. Frankly this may be the wrong path for the…
Buybacks may not be considered the best return of capital by many investors and market pundits, but they are M&A-alternatives for management of companies. The amount of share buybacks announced in August…
$100 billion… That is roughly the combined tally of August share buyback announcements and merger announcements. This may not be a record, but it has to be one of the most active…
Active traders and day traders have many movers this Friday morning to choose from. The top alerts were seen in Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK), Blue Coat Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: BCSI),…
Earlier this year was the trend of hiking dividends, but now that so many companies have raised their quarterly payouts we are seeing the ‘other’ shareholder-friendly action taking place. Buybacks are still…
These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst research calls for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations: AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. (NYSE: AU) Cut to Underperform at Credit Suisse. Chimera Investment Corp. (NYSE: CIM) Started…
There are actually fewer pre-market movers than many may have guessed considering how volatile the markets are. Today’s top day trader and active trader alerts are in Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:…
