Many economists don’t believe that the US debt ceiling is the biggest problem the country faces. In their view the most compelling issue is unemployment, currently at 9.1% and, given the nearly…
Earnings season is in full throttle and many major companies are due to report in the week ahead. Some of the key reports we are featuring for detailed earnings previews are the…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated Buy and raised target to $500…
Visa gained over 14% during the week on news that “the Federal Reserve would increase its proposed cap on interchange fees charged to by large banks to merchants to process debit card…
Banks were already having a good day, but a new ruling has come out from the Federal Reserve on interchange fees. Maybe the proper description would be “less bad” of news. Banks…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN) Raised to Overweight at Barclays. Career…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. Alliance Data Systems Corporation (NYSE: ADS) Cut to Sell at Goldman…
Earnings season may have peaked but we still have some key sector moving stocks due to report earnings on Thursday morning. We have offered previews and some basic color on shares of…
Americans love to “charge it”. This is why the darlings of plastic American Express Company (NYSE:AXP), Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), MasterCard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) have made solid investments in the past. In the U.S. credit…
Douglas A. McIntyre The US Treasury Department will be sending out 600,000 invitations to taxpayers who are unlikely to have a bank account offering them an opportunity to receive their tax refunds through a prepaid…
These are some of this Friday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) Raised to Outperform at Leerink Swann. AON Corporation (NYSE: AON)…
You most likely saw the carnage that came to MasterCard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) and Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V) today. The markets were braced for more changes coming to the interchange fees, also…
Credit card clearing and processing giants Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) and Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V) are getting hammered on strong volume today. The culprit is probably easy to guess… interchange fees. Today’s…
Seventeen billionaires including Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz have agreed to pledge most of their money to charity. (www.thegivingpledge.org) (Reuters) WikiLeaks supporters shut down the MasterCard (NYSE: MA) and Visa (NYSE V)…
Mortgage investors have begun to pressure banks to buy back bad loans. (Reuters) China may use its rare earth stocks to help it move ahead with alternative energy. (Reuters) Bank of Japan…
