It will be an unusual report and reaction this Friday when the Labor Department releases its report on unemployment and payrolls. The European Central Bank was expected to cut interest rates on…
While many investors and traders are going to be out, we have two key events to watch this week. The first is a hoped-for rate cut from the European Central Bank on…
The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning and stayed in losing territory all day as investors first figured out that the two-day Eurozone summit meeting would very likely end…
The three major US stock indexes opened modestly higher this morning as investors appear to have high hopes that tomorrow’s summit meeting of European Union leaders will lead to a resolution of…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Monday. ABB Ltd. (NYSE: ABB) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan. Alaska Air Group…
Earnings season is all but over and only the tail end of the quarterly and off-calendar reporting outfits are still reporting earnings. Still, the coming week does have several key earnings reports…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP) Started as Buy at UBS. First Solar…
Earnings season is supposed to be over. Guess again. This coming week is going to feel like the earnings floodgates are open and the companies reporting have market-moving and sector-moving abilities. Monday…
Earnings season is supposed to be over, but we have a packed week full of earnings due from off-calendar quarterly earnings reports. We have compiled Thomson Reuters estimates and added color where…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning. AFLAC Inc. (NYSE: AFL) Reiterated Buy and $83 target at BofA/ML.…
ADP is out with its pre-unemployment and payrolls figure with its guess for what happened on the jobs front in December. ADP is often not on target, but the number shows a…
These are some of this Thursday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (NYSE: CM) Raised to Equal-Weight at Morgan Stanley. Cooper…
After a long period of unemployment, any upside to the jobs numbers at any point offers a helping hand to the stocks of companies that revolve around the jobs market. That is…
These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: BHP Billiton plc (NYSE: BHP) Target raised overseas by UBS. Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA)…
We often cover companies raising dividends and announcing new stock buyback plans. We did see some dividend hikes this week, but there are also many unique dividend stories from this week which…
