Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS) raised to Outperform at Bernstein. BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE: BHP) cut…
ThinkstockIf ever there was a time for Europe to reconsider its move toward austerity as a means to balance national budgets and improve the perceived value of sovereign debt, it is now. Markit data…
courtesy of YouTubeSome Fed governors favor a slowing of bond buying to block possible inflation. (Reuters) Several pieces of data show housing activity has slowed. (Reuters) A study conducted by the Chesapeake Energy Corp.…
ThinkstockPlayStation 4 Launch Is the release of the Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 4 (PS4) enough to turnaround the aging consumer electronics firm? No. The console is the first major overhaul in seven years.…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsWe have many movers in the after-hours session this Wednesday afternoon. Most are on earnings, and some are way up with others way down. As always, you can find the…
U.S. equity markets opened flat to lower this morning as it waited for data on U.S. housing starts and producer price inflation. In Europe, markets got some downward signals from a higher-than-expected reading on…
Total U.S. online travel-related spending came to about $103 billion in 2012 according to the latest data from comScore Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR). Air travel alone accounted for about two-thirds of all travel spending. Both…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.Everyone knows that if a company or product shows up on the first page of results from a search engine query, the chances that the company or product will get noticed,…
ThinkstockMost investors are familiar with the acronym GARP, which stands for growth at a reasonable price. UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) has taken that category one step further and added a Q for quality. The…
Jon OggThese are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Access Midstream Partners L.P. (NYSE: ACMP) reiterated Outperform but on Focus List at Credit Suisse.…
ThinkstockThe masses in one European nation once again demonstrated that government attempts to close deficits through austerity only work if people work. Greeks staged a large national strike to protest government cuts and higher…
ThinkstockThe Chinese Army denied that it was behind a series of sophisticated cyber attacks that began as early as 2006. Someone else must have done it, despite proof provided by U.S. research firm Mandiant.…
ThinkstockNew Greek Austerity Protests The masses in one European nation once again demonstrated that government attempts to close deficits through austerity only work if people work. Greeks staged a large national strike to protest…
courtesy of XeroxXerox Corp. (NYSE: XRX) has become one of those ancient tech companies, not entirely unlike Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), that has overstayed its welcome in the market, as it struggles against much larger, more…
courtesy of AOL, IncBoeing Co. (NYSE: BA) gets an agreement with a key engineering unit. (Reuters) China says U.S. claims of hacking by one of its army units does not have sufficient technical proof.…