These are this Wednesday’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls early this morning: Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) Raised to Buy at Needham. Banco Santander (NYSE:…
Companies seemed to prefer share buybacks in 2007 and 2008, and maybe part of 2009. Why not, if the stock is cheap? But then 2009 came and many companies were derailed by…
These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this morning: Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) Cut to Hold at Needham. GameStop Corp. (NYSE:…
2010 is turning out to be the year that big companies return to hiking dividends. In just the last week we have seen dividend hikes from Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM), Boardwalk…
The number of videos view online by America internet users has increased steadily over the last three years, primarily due to the success of Google’s (GOOG) YouTube which the search company bought…
GE (GE) and Comcast (CMCSA) have struck a deal for the cable company to take a controlling share in GE’s entertainment unit–NBCU. Opponents of the transaction claim that it will be anticompetitive…
These are Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) Raised to Neutral at Credit Suisse. Calpine Corp. (NYSE: CPN) Raised to Equal…
These are this Wednesday’s top 10 analyst calls for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research: AK Steel (NYSE: AKS) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Raised…
Updated throughout the day. Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWX) may announce a dividend (Barron’s) Soros Management will open a Hong Kong office. (Bloomberg) The AP and Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) are close to cutting a…
TMZ.com’s audience growth over the last six months and its expansion into content delivery through TV as well as the internet has increased the value of the company to more than $100 million. TMZ is…
Douglas A. McIntyre The fight between Time Warner Cable (NYSE:TWC) and Fox over what the cable company will pay the network for programming is not about to end soon. On New Year’s Eve, most of the…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters:  US business investment is rising. Reuters:  Another outage shut down RIM’s (NYSE:RIMM) BlackBerry network. Reuters:  Geithner said tight lending could hurt US economy. Reuters:  Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) lost an appeal over IP…
M&A activity picked up in the second half of 2009 as the market moved up and access to capital for big companies improved. Corporate debt offerings soared and banks began to make…
Reuters:  Citigroup (NYSE:C) and the government are in a dispute over TARP re-payments Reuters:  Japan release plans for an $81 billion stimulus package. Reuters:  Morgan Stanley’s (NYSE:MS) new CEO will shuffle top management.…
No one would be surprised to see Sumner Redstone, the 86-year-old head of Viacom (NYSE:VIA), and Jeff Bewkes, CEO of Time Warner (NYSE:TWX), wearing disguises to their private meetings in coffee shops around…
