These are some of this Thursday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Started as Outperform with $410 at Baird (expanded details). Boston…
Norway’s Statoil ASA (NYSE: STO) has agreed to sell a 40% stake in its deepwater Peregrino field offshore Brazil to China’s Sinochem Group for $3.07 billion. Statoil retains its 60% share and…
Douglas A. McIntyre Since 2002, Greenland has issued 13 licenses to explore its onshore and offshore areas for oil and gas. Among the licensees are Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM), Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX), Encana…
Jim Cramer came out with his series of themes for 2010 on CNBC’s MAD MONEY this evening, and tonight’s theme was ‘Going Global.’ Despite the market being overbought and the negative news headwinds, today…
NYSE Euronext has begun trading a new ETF this week that is meant to track the large companies throughout the Nordic region. This seeks to track the FTSE Nordic 30 Index, which…
These are the top pre-market early-bird analyst calls we have seen with about two and a half hours until the market opens this Tuesday morning: Anadarko Petroleum (APC) Raised to Buy at…
These are the top ten analyst calls for research upgrades, downgrades, and initiations which we have seen from Wall Street early this Monday morning: Airgas (ARG) Started as Buy at Piper Jaffray.…
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG), has entered into a series of contracts with BrightSource Energy, Inc.  While we consider most individual projects essentially as footnotes…
These are some of the top analyst downgrades and cautious research calls we have seen from Wall Street early this Tuesday morning: American Express (AXP) Started as Underperform at RBC. Buckle (BKE)…
We have actually seen a lot of analyst calls in the oil patch this morning. Some are conflicting against each other as you will see. BP plc (NYSE: BP) Started as Underweight…
These are some of Tuesday morning’s top pre-market upgrades and downgrades we have seen from Wall Street analysts with more than two hours until the open: BJ’s Wholesale (NYSE: BJ) Raised to…
Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK) is trading marginally higher today on market chatter that BP plc (NYSE: BP) wants to acquire the company. We first noticed this in the trading for options volume…
Judged by the country’s performance in extracting hydrocarbons, Venezuela under President Hugo Chavez has not been a smashing success. Ten years ago, when Chavez first came to power, the country produced about…
It is probably no huge shock that downgrades are coming more than upgrades now that oil has come down so much. Too bad these were not the calls several months ago. Here…
Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK) has sold about $412 million worth of royalty interests in "long-lived, producing assets" in gas fields in Oklahoma and Arkansas. The buyer was a private equity firm, Argonaut…
