These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. They include Citigroup, Equinix, IBM, Visa, Yahoo and Walmart.
thinkstockApril 14, 2014: Markets opened higher on Monday with shares moving up across the board in the morning. By afternoon buying enthusiasm had definitely cooled for some of the momentum stocks in…
thinkstockApril 11, 2014: Markets opened lower on Friday with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite breaking into positive territory late in the morning. Unfortunately neither index could hold the gain as…
thinkstockApril 9, 2014: Markets opened higher on Wednesday and then got a jolt higher following the afternoon release of the FOMC’s last meeting minutes. The minutes indicated to many investors and traders…
Paul Ausick thinkstockApril 7, 2014: Markets opened lower on Monday and were on a downhill slide all day long. Momentum stocks again had a terrible day. At the close of trading today the DJIA…
thinkstockApril 4, 2014: Markets opened higher on Friday but turned indisputably south by mid-morning. Momentum stocks soured late in the morning, and added to woes in biotech and tech stocks. In the…
Paul Ausick J.P. Morgan announced Thursday that it has received clearance from U.S. regulators to process a transfer of funds from the Russian embassy in Kazakhstan to an insurance company partly owned by sanctioned…
In the first such action by a large U.S. financial institution as a result of sanctions against Russia, J.P. Morgan blocked a transfer of funds from a Russian embassy to an insurance…
thinkstockMarch 31, 2014: Markets opened higher on Monday even though the report on Chicago PMI was weaker than expected. Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen gave a speech where she clarified her views on…
thinkstockMarch 28, 2014: Markets opened higher on Friday on hopes for more government stimulus to the economies of Japan and Europe. There might also have been some investors looking to pick up…
The world's largest retailer filed suit with the federal court in western Arkansas, claiming that credit card company Visa charged excessive card swipe fees. Is MasterCard next?
thinkstockMarch 24, 2014: Markets opened slightly higher on Monday but soon took a turn south and spent most of the day solidly down. Biotechs, healthcare, discretionary, and tech stocks were all weaker…
Paul Ausick After saying last Friday that they would not be processing transactions for Russian banks, Visa and MasterCard resumed such processing on Saturday. Bank owners were on a list of Russian officials and…
thinkstockMarch 21, 2014: Markets opened higher on Friday but the Nasdaq sank quickly, bounced for a while, and finally settled solidly lower. It took the Dow and the S&P 500 until noon…
ThinkstockFollowing President Obama’s order on Thursday of sanctions against two dozen Russian citizens, credit card issuers Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) and MasterCard Inc. (NYSE: MA) have stopped providing services to two Russian…
