David Axelrod, an adviser to President Obama, said this morning that no new drilling offshore of the US will be authorized until the cause of the explosion and 5,000-b/d leak from the…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 100 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
These are some of the top analyst calls seen so far this Friday morning from the upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street firms: Aixtron AG (NASDAQ: AIXG) Cut to Hold at…
This week’s big coming attractions via The Unusual Suspects could have been all about earnings again as the earnings onslaught continues. Our big events we are watching for this coming week based…
The rig counts are not higher this week despite $80+ oil remaining. Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) has issued its weekly rig counting data, and we are watching the Oil Services HOLDRs…
These are ten of the top research calls of upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street firms this Wednesday morning: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Raised to Outperform at Scotia. Canadian Solar…
There are many more significant calls than we expected in this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Maintained as…
The Fed has started the end of the near-zero rate cycle cycle, sort of. But yesterday’s sudden discount rate hike to 0.75% from 0.50% is almost certainly a prelude to the Fed…
These are this Thursday morning’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Started as Market Perform at JMP Securities. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)…
These are the top ten analyst research initiations, upgrades, and downgrades we have seen from top Wall Street firms early this Wednesday morning: Biogen-Idec (BIIB) Started as Underperform at BofA/Merrill Lynch. Forest…
Goldman Sachs has made several key upgrades and downgrades this morning in the utility sector and in the oil patch. While the utility sector was raised to attractive, some of the other…
This morning we got to see the new equity holdings of T. Boone Pickens, via his BP Capital Management, L.P., as of March 31, 2009. Some of the higher stakes look to…
The world’s largest offshore driller, Transocean Ltd. (NYSE:RIG), reported first quarter 2009 EPS of $2.93 on net income of $942 million and revenue of $3.12 billion. In the first quarter of 2008,…
Douglas A. McIntyre Citi maintains a ‘Buy’ rating on Transocean Inc (NYSE: RIG), adds to Top Picks Live list with a $98 price target, citing several positive trends in the offshore drilling including capacity constraints…
Douglas A. McIntyre These are some of the top pre-market early bird analyst upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street this Monday morning: Amazon.com (AMZN) Raised to Buy at Piper Jaffray. Best Buy (BBY) Raised to…
