Standard & Poor’s has released a very positive dividend development trend for 2010 that covers roughly 7,000 public shares that report dividend information. It is no small sum. The third quarter of…
2009 was the year that dividends were cut or went on hold. 2010 is becoming the greatest year of increases and initiations of dividends that the markets have ever seen. There are…
Many stocks are on the move for day traders and active traders this Monday morning ahead of earnings season. Today’s top alerts are in Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA), Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU),…
These are some of this Monday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street firms: Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) Cut to Neutral at UBS. AU Optronics Corp. (NYSE:…
On May 17th and May 25th, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange stopped trading in lumber futures because the contract price had fallen by the maximum allowable amount of $10. On the 25th, lumber…
Perhaps one way to get a read on where housing construction in the US is headed is to look at the companies who supply the lumber that goes into new construction. Louisiana-Pacific…
These are this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) Started as Neutral at JPMorgan. Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT) Started as Underweight…
These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street this Monday morning: King Pharma (KG) Raised to Overweight at Wachovia. Maxim Integrated Products (MXIM) Raised to Market…
Jones Apparel (JNY) Profit warning. Drops to $9.26 from 52-week high of $23.08. Liz Claiborne (LIZ) Pulled down by JNY news. Falls to $9.75 from 52-week high of $31.93. Weyerhaeuser (WY) Tried…
Douglas A. McIntyre If you thought this was a bad day for the market with the DJIA trading well under that 12,000 psychological level, there were some 400 stocks that hit 52-week lows today when…
These are ten of the analyst calls we are focusing on this Monday morning in pre-market trading: Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley. Blue Nile (NASDAQ: NILE)…
According to Reuters "International Paper (NYSE: IP) has agreed to pay $6 billion in cash to buy the packaging and recycling unit of Weyerhaeuser Co, (NYSE: WY) the timber and forest products…
These are not the only analyst calls affecting shares this morning, but these are the first ones that 247WallSt.com is focusing on: Charter Communications (NASDAQ: CHTR) Cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse.…
These aren’t all of the impact analyst calls, but these are the key calls that 24/7 Wall St. is focusing on: Amgen (AMGN) raised to overweight at Lehman. Encore Energy (ENP) started…
ANW started as Buy at Jefferies.AVY cut to Neutral at RWBaird.AXP cut to Neutral at Merrill Lynch (indicated down 1% to 2%).BOBJ cut to Neutral at First Albany.CHD started as Neutral at…
