The three major US equities indexes opened sharply lower this morning and the slide continued pretty much without interruption all day. About half an hour before closing, all three indexes are down…
Jon OggThese are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) Cut to Market Perform at Bernstein. Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE:…
Annaly Capital Management Inc. (NYSE: NLY) is actually managing to hold up better than some may have guessed considering an analyst downgrade this morning. Dividend yield investors have been clipping double-digit yields in…
Jon C. Ogg Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) is often considered controversial because of its high dividend yielding mortgage REIT status. Today’s news came out that the ‘preferred’ share dividends have been declared, but keep…
Jon C. Ogg Jon OggThis last week was very busy, and Friday’s disappointing trading day skewed many research reports. Each morning we track analyst upgrades and downgrades and over the weekend we review each to…
Investors are looking for yield, but many investors and speculators are betting against the highest dividend yield sectors. There are perhaps no higher dividends to be had than in the mortgage REIT…
The US equity markets opened slightly higher this morning, but soon turned around and spent the rest of the morning lower before returning to about even by afternoon. Equities could close at…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Wednesday morning. Annaly Capital Management Inc. (NYSE: NLY) Cut to Market Perform…
We are getting into the last of the normalized quarterly earnings reports and into the first waves of the companies with off-normal quarter-ends. Tuesday is going to be another busy day with…
These are some of Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) Cut to Market Perform at KBW. Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:…
Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) is the mortgage REIT which we used to dub “the vulture mortgage REIT” because of its targets in lower-rated mortgage-backed securities. Usually a delay in a quarterly filing…
Shares only briefly broke above last week’s close today, as decliners outnumber gainers by about 4 to 1 in the late afternoon. Tech stocks held up fairly well early as news of…
These are some of Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) Cut to Market Perform at Leerink Swann. Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMLN)…
Each morning 24/7 Wall St. issues a list of some of the key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. We review these and other calls from the week…
These are some of Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) Raised to Outperform at Wells Fargo. Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:…
