ThinkstockActivist investor Carl Icahn had proposed that the world’s largest offshore drilling firm, Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG), pay shareholders a one-time dividend of $4 a share and to replace 3 board members…
Paul Ausick U.S. equity markets opened slightly lower this morning after the Bank of England left its key interest rate and asset purchase program unchanged (more coverage here). In Asia, China’s consumer price index…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning on relatively little economic data. In Europe, Germany reported that industrial production rose 1.2%, while a house price index in the U.K.rose 1.1% month-over-month. In…
Jon OggInvestors and traders constantly seek new good research-driven ideas for stocks to buy and for stocks to sell. Some of these come from independent research and some come from the large…
Jon OggArgus is truly considered to be independent research firm, so it is not full of the traditional possible conflicts on interest seen in other Wall Street broker sell-side drive research. The…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of February 28 in the following oil and gas leaders: Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI); BP PLC (NYSE: BP), Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE:…
ThinkstockNow that Carl Icahn has a toehold at Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and fired off a letter to that company’s board on how shareholders should be treated, he’s getting down to business…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following news out of China that government is about to tighten restrictions on real estate transactions. The news pushed the Shanghai exchange down nearly 4%…
President Obama suggests cuts in Social Security and Medicare to end a battle over budget cuts. (Reuters) Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE: BMY) may try a large acquisition to improve its fortunes. (WSJ)…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following a number of disappointing data releases in Europe and Asia. Eurozone PMI remains on the pessimistic side, with a reading of 47.9, and the…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of February 15 in the following oil and gas leaders: Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI), BP PLC (NYSE: BP), Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE:…
courtesy of BP plcNearly three years after the explosion and sinking of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers and spilled 5 million barrels of oil, a…
U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning on better economic news out of Europe and basically good data in the U.S. In Europe, the eurozone trade balance came in better than…
Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. CenturyLink Inc. (NYSE: CTL) cut to Hold from Buy at Argus, and downgraded…
Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors, Inc. is a hedge fund manager that can move stocks. The newest 13-F filing at the SEC shows that he made some significant portfolio changes as of…
