These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Tuesday, February 11, 2014. They include Alcatel-Lucent, CenturyLink, Cisco Systems , FireEye and Infoblox.
ThinkstockThe DJIA has finally closed above 16,000 for the first time ever. With a light holiday week coming up and with year-end just around the corner, investors have to consider research ideas…
Jon OggEarnings season is winding down, stocks are taking a breather after the DJIA and S&P 500 both hit new all-time highs, and now traders and investors alike have to start positioning…
Jon OggThis week marks the beginning of the end for earnings season, and both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 hit new all-time highs last week. Now investors and traders alike…
ThinkstockThe steel industry tends to go with the pulse of U.S. and international economic growth. Mired in slow growth for years, the top steel stocks became relegated to the Wall Street doghouse.…
Jon OggWe are in the thick of corporate earnings season and stocks are challenging all-time highs. This is a climate in which investors want and need to know which stocks to buy…
July 30, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning as traders and investors wait for tomorrow’s announcement from the FOMC. There was little economic data published today. In the U.S., the…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning as investors weighed conflicting data from the U.S., Europe, and Asia. In Europe, retail sales declined more than expected in Germany, Italy’s unemployment rate remained…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning after the U.S. Department of Commerce reported that personal income and spending both rose by 0.2%, which was slightly higher than expected for spending and…
ThinkstockIt was just at the end of last week that we gave a pre-earnings update for Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) in our DJIA earnings season scorecard, warning that the market was expecting…
Jon OggThe DJIA and S&P 500 Index both hit new highs on Wednesday and we expect to see DJIA 15,000 and also 1,600 on the S&P 500 Index any day now. One…
ThinkstockThree U.S. steelmakers reported earnings before markets opened this morning. AK Steel Holding Corp. (NYSE: AKS), United States Steel Corp. (NYSE: X) and Nucor Corp. (NYSE: NUE). Given all the recent bad…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsEarnings season is in full swing and the coming week will have many big earnings announcements. 24/7 Wall St. has provided a brief calendar showing current and ex-DJIA…
ThinkstockNow that the United States has dodged the fiscal cliff, investors are expecting at least a boomlet in manufacturing and production. That means more energy and more basic materials. Coal and steel…
ThinkstockSteelmaker and recycler Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. (NASDAQ: SCHN) said today that it expects net income for its first fiscal quarter of 2013 ending this month to be breakeven before taking a…
