One school of thought about negative publicity is that its impact dissipates over time. It is hard to disprove that theory, especially in the case of large companies. And sometimes it takes…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) Started as Buy at BofA/ML.…
Short sellers must not agree with the conventional wisdom that high gas prices and unemployment will keep Americans out of stores and malls this summer. These investors decreased their negative bets against…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Air Lease Corporation (NYSE: AL) Started as Outperform at Credit Suisse.…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Advance Auto Parts Inc. (NYSE: AAP) Cut to Neutral at Credit…
The old big event that had been impossible to imagine was Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) overtaking Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) with the world’s highest valuation for any technology company. Apple achieved that…
Cisco CEO John Chambers should get to live through the disgrace of rebuilding the company he made and to stand at the door of the firm and hand out the pink slips.…
Most technology company first quarter earnings have been relatively good. Businesses and consumers have begun to return to the market for servers, PCs, and software. The demand for smartphones and tablets is…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. Alliance Data Systems Corporation (NYSE: ADS) Cut to Sell at Goldman…
Wall St. was disappointed by the sales of Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows products as the world’s largest software company announced earnings for the quarter which ended March 31. Microsoft’s two enterprise software…
Short sellers seem to have ignored the strong earnings released recently by Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) and IBM (NYSE: IBM). They have, for the most part, bet strongly that the stocks in many…
A review of data from the damaged Southwest Air (NYSE: LUV) 737 raised questions about Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) manufacturing process. (Reuters) Sony (NYSE: SNE) has begun to market a tablet PC. (Reuters)…
Japan raised the severity of its nuclear crisis to the same level as Chernobyl. (Reuters) Alcoa (NYSE: AA) beat earnings but missed sales.(Reuters) Nasdaq OMX (NASDAQ NDAQ) and Deutsche Boerse have approached NYSE Euronext’s (NYSE: NYX) largest…
At yesterday’s launch of its newest Xeon processor, an Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) executive claimed that there is no workload in the world that the Xeon cannot handle. That may be good news…
The NASDAQ 100 has figured out a way to change its dependence upon and its dominance by Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). A good old-fashioned reweighting is that plan. The NASDAQ confirmed this morning that…
