Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) did not exactly get a resounding endorsement today in an afternoon research call. S&P Equity Research decided it was removing its Buy rating that had been in place…
S&P 500 WEEK: BOTTOM 10 (04FEB-10 FEB) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 10Feb11 Close Price 04Feb11 Market Cap($Mil) Akamai Technologies Inc AKAM -14.9 40.75 47.88 7430.4 Cisco Systems Inc CSCO…
Short sellers moved into the shares of companies that Wall St. views as having weak earnings capacity and poor business strategies. Shares sold short in AMD (NYSE: AMD), which recently pushed out…
These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) Cut to Neutral at BofA/ML. Anadarko Petroleum…
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) has come out with its fourth quarter earnings. It has also hiked its dividend and accelerated its share buyback plan. The maker of communications chips reported earnings came…
Jon C. Ogg These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) Cut to Market Perform at FBR.…
Earnings season is in full swing and we have a back-breaker of an earnings week ahead of us. There are some 11 DJIA components reporting earnings and a whole slew of other…
When insider selling totals 114 times more than insider buying, the skeptics among us wonder what could be going on. According to Bloomberg News, cited at zerohedge.com, inquiring minds should want to…
Yesterday brought on a very unusual volume alert for active traders in shares of Atheros Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHR), which was briefly halted on a circuit breaker spike. The cause was a…
Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) has found a new way to raise cash, in part out of a product flop. The company has announced the sale of licenses it holds for 700 megahertz…
Could tablet computers be the most serious threat to the Wintel duopoly that has dominated personal computing for the past 25 or so years? Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:…
Facebook is the best place to work among US companies, according to employee research firm Glassdoor. The survey was based on nearly 150,000 employee reviews submitted during 2010 on companies with more than…
These are some of this Friday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Airgas Inc. (NYSE: ARG) Raised to Outperform at Baird. Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE)…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) seems to be losing some of its edge when it comes to its share of the global semiconductor business. Gartner Group gave a forecast of total company revenues…
Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has an extreme dominance when it comes to the market share of processors inside of personal computers, generally referred to as about 80% depending upon your source and…
