These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. The include Coca-Cola, Dendreon, Procter & Gamble, SunEdison and 21st Century Fox.
Some experts believe the S&P 500 has risen too much, because the increase has little support from the general economy and corporate earnings. A sudden weakness of a few large cap stocks…
ThinkstockKimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE: KMB) received almost no coverage for the dividend hike that was announced on Tuesday. For this consumer products giant to raise its dividend by almost 4% does not sound like…
thinkstockFebruary 18, 2014: Markets opened slightly higher on Monday but the DJIA turned south quickly and struggled all day before finishing with a fractional loss. The healthcare sector, especially in the biotech…
White House Photo by Pete SouzaAs many consider Warren Buffett to be the greatest investor of modern times, investors want to know any time there are big changes in the Berkshire Hathaway…
thinkstockFebruary 12, 2014: Markets opened higher on Wednesday, but not by much. A report on a big jump in China’s trade balance from earlier in the day may or may not have…
Courtesy Procter & GambleProcter & Gamble Co.(NYSE: PG) has issued an earnings update to reflect what it called significant currency exchange rate movements. The consumer products giant is adjusting its total sales…
Jon C. Ogg Warren Buffett is often regarded as the greatest investor of modern times. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has become one of the largest conglomerates and holding companies in the world. Its…
courtesy of TwitterThe XXII Olympic Winter Games held in Sochi, Russia, belong to NBC, at least from the standpoint of traditional media coverage. Comcast Corp.’s (NASDAQ: CMCSA) NBCUniveral unit paid $4.38 billion…
The top equity strategist at Merrill Lynch has updated the High Quality and Dividend Yield screen of stocks to buy, adding some names that may provide investors solid 2014 returns.
The S&P 500 has dropped more than 5% in 2014, and virtually all of that has come in the past week. Much of the blame has been put on financial risks in…
The stock market was pounded on Friday, making for a very bad week and a rough start for January. Still, not all is lost. A few stocks managed to avoid the carnage.…
Procter & Gamble reported second-quarter fiscal 2014 results before markets opened Friday, and its outlook for the rest of 2014 looks a bit shaky. Anyone with new ideas for how P&G might…
Paul Ausick Jon OggWe are now well past the end of 2013, and many strategists have mixed targets for the stock and bond markets in 2014. The last year brought gains of 26.5% in…
The year 2013 was a considerable one for stocks, yet Procter & Gamble technically underperformed the market despite strong gains of almost 23%. The question now is what to expect from Procter…
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