The economic choppiness is coming to a head with the age of dividend hikes. The pressure is going to remain for companies to continue returning capital to shareholders while also looking for…
Jon OggThese are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Alon USA Energy, Inc. (NYSE: ALJ) is the value stock…
The 30-Year Treasury auction, the so-called Long Bond, had a strong participation for what is technically a 29-year and 11-month bond. The participation rate was strong enough that this still shows a…
The worst part about hurricane season is that one bad hurricane has no impact on whether or not another hurricane, or series of hurricanes, can be coming back down the pipe. If…
Any time a hurricane hits, it can cause billions of dollars in damage to homes, cars, businesses, and other properties. The estimates for Hurricane Irene were growing higher and higher last week…
Will Hurricane Irene cost the United States $10 billion? $15 billion? Or even more? It really depends upon whom you speak with on this front. The expected damage count is growing now…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Calpine Corporation (NYSE: CPN) Raised to Buy at BofA/ML. Computer Sciences…
Next week will mark the true ‘opening the floodgates’ for earnings season. We have given some brief earnings previews and added in color for the DJIA components set to report earnings in…
There are several ways in which companies can return money to shareholders, but the two most common methods of returning cash to shareholders are dividends and stock buybacks. Dividends are rarely controversial…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) Reiterated Buy at Argus. Berkshire Hathaway Inc.…
These are some of this Friday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. AFLAC Inc. (NYSE: AFL) Started as Neutral at Goldman Sachs. AT&T, Inc.…
There has been an amazing feat in 2010. All of the most recent companies which have been booted out of the Dow Jones Industrial Average have outperformed their replacement stocks and the…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (also called The Dow, Dow 30 and the DJIA) is what most Americans think of as the “stock market.” The widely followed benchmark of 30 American stocks,…
The Travelers Companies, Inc. (NYSE:TRV) is the Dow Jones Industrial Average component which many investors manage to overlook or forget about it being a DJIA member. The insurance giant has announced an…
Jon C. Ogg These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Aluminum Corp Of China (NYSE: ACH) Cut to Undeweight at JPMorgan. Atheros Communications Inc.…
