These are this Friday’s top research calls seen in upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street analysts: Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) Cut to Underperform from Market Perform at FBR. Calpine Corp.…
PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) is the latest of the big companies to hike their dividend payouts this morning. We have not kept an exact tally, but this is getting close to 70…
Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) is off its highs but still higher on the day after the company raised its dividend and announced a share buyback plan. The company’s board of directors…
This week’s list of UNUSUAL SUSPECTS for stocks to watch is actually much different from what we have seen in other reports. Earnings season is finally over, so we only have two…
Kodak (EK) sued Apple, RIMM, and Motorola (MOT) for patent infringements. Nokia sued Apple (AAPL). Nokia claims to have patents that the Apple uses in the iPhone. Now Apple (AAPL) has filed a patent…
This is nearly funny, or at least ironic. I had been working on a piece to post at 5:00 PM addressing the steady chart meltdown happening at QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM). It…
Douglas A. McIntyre Nortel Networks Corp. (NRTLQ) is just about wound down in its bankruptcy. The company’s operations have effectively all been sold off, at extreme discounts. In this bankruptcy there is one last sale…
Short interest in major banks rose sharply for the period that ended on January 31. Share short in Citigroup (NYSE:C) were up 11% to 439 million. The short interest in Bank of…
The 2010 Super Bowl is expected to be a return of bold advertising. Whether you are a Colts or Saints fan or no fan at all, it seems that even the non-sports lovers enjoy…
Douglas A. McIntyre Shares in almost every major American company on the most active list fell and in some cases fell sharply on the 28th. The stock of Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM), the largest handset chip maker in…
These are this Thursday’s top day trader and active trader alerts. We have a link over to VSInvestor.com for each story with more details and analysis: Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) is…
These are this Thursday’s top 10 analyst calls for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research: Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) Raised to Overweight at Barclays Capital. Alliant Techsystems Inc. (NYSE:…
The IPO market is off to a rough start so far in 2010. We have seen very recent developments in deals on deck to price from CBOE Holdings Inc., Convio Inc., Everyday Health Inc.,…
Short sellers made bets across the board against the telecom industry for the period that ended January 15. Investors may be worried about price wars amongh carriers and handset companies as they…
Qualcomm Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) is falling into the category of the stocks we wanted to avoid this earnings season. That category is companies with mediocre or poor earnings reports after shares have…
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