These are this morning’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) Started as Underperform at Macquarie; Removed from Conviction Sell list Goldman…
Reuters: Toyota (TM) told regulators it is looking at how to fix 1.2 million Corollas. Reuters: A Chinese export body said a rise in the yuan would be destructive. Reuters: China Mobile’s…
If all goes smoothly, the future of Tiger Woods and the media may finally be back to him being the biggest golf star ever rather than the subject of tabloids and celebrity…
Douglas A. McIntyre Tiger Woods sponsorship income in 2009 was estimated by several media sources to be $110 million. Thirty million dollars of that came from Nike (NKE). There are no estimates for the revenue…
This week we have several issues to watch. Earnings season is mostly done but there are still many on deck in this week’s unusual suspects. Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMLN), Eli Lilly…
Earnings season is over. Well, sort of. We have the delayed reports and the reports from companies which have off-regular quarterly or fiscal earnings. Next week we have AthenaHealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN),…
Short selling is seen for many reasons, but universally traders tend to track short selling to track the biggest changes in the short interest twice each month. Whether these are hedges, forward…
Tiger Woods is a unique athlete that put himself in a unique situation. Today’s first round of formal apologies was effectively nothing more than a telegraph of more to come that so…
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has just filed its year-end holdings for 2009, so these are Warren Buffett’s most recent holdings going into 2010. We have already seen some…
Large consumer companies spend a great deal of marketing money on creating, preserving, and increasing the image of their brands. If a product has problems, the process does not always work. Toyota…
Brand measurement is a popular exercise. Several major business magazines run brand value lists. The annual Brand Z and Interbrand lists always get heavy press coverage. Companies are concerned about their rankings…
Most people in America now are probably not as interested in what Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) did for earnings after the closing bell today, but the Tiger Woods story is still big…
Douglas A. McIntyre The second half of December is supposed to be when trading volume starts slowing down. That does not look to be the case for this coming week, and this list of the unusual suspects is…
Tiger Woods has lost a lot of his friends, at least among the public. A new Rasmussen survey released today reports that a national telephone survey found that just 38% of Americans now have a…
Douglas A. McIntyre Tiger Woods has been the dominating news force over the last week. It has been such a distraction that we have even worried that this would take everyone’s eyes and ears off…
