Stocks had been indicated earlier after a massacre event took stocks lower on Wednesday. A disappointing ECB meeting without much new on quantitative easing then took the markets lower. The trend that…
ThinkstockWhile the market has had a nice pair of back-to-back rally days, many investors are starting to be concerned on valuations again. That’s the time it makes sense to look at value…
Lee Jackson Wikimedia CommonsThe leading firms on Wall Street maintain a list of their top stocks to buy as their highest conviction calls from the top analysts in the firm. What is somewhat rare…
ThinkstockAs we reach the midpoint in the year, we like to review the top stock calls from the major firms around Wall Street. The UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) Key Call list represents…
Since the end of April, the 10-year Treasury note yield increased more than 40 basis points and is up 35 basis points year-to-date. The financial services analysts at UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS)…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsAt the beginning of the year, we presented the lists from most major Wall Street firms of their top stocks to buy for the year. After one of…
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…
ThinkstockWe recently wrote that shorting the Treasury bond market may very well be the next biggest short-sale trade since the subprime mortgage short. While rates have dipped a little in the past week…
Deutsche Bank A.G. (NYSE: DB) initiated coverage today on the U.S Life Insurance industry. While they do have some Buy recommendations in the current report. their bias is decidedly bearish. If the…
Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Alcatel-Lucent, S.A. (NYSE: ALU) Cut to Market Perform at Bernstein. American Water Works…
Insurance companies are becoming less popular than lawyers. Before you throw out the entire class of healthcare insurance, liability insurance, and property & casualty insurance, things might not be as bad as…
The method of using capital from the corporate treasury to return capital to shareholders via share repurchase programs has long been under question. Most buybacks never are fully utilized, and many simply…
Piper Jaffray upgrades shares of Kenexato Overweight and raised the its target to $29 from $13. BNP Paribas was downgraded to “equal weight” from “overweight” by Morgan Stanley on valuation grounds Natixis…
Billionaire activist investor and financier Carl Icahn has released the total holdings in an SEC filing for the period end December 31, 2007 for ICAHN CAPITAL, LP. As Carl Icahn and his…
