Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall St. research firms this Monday. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) maintained Buy with $750 price target at Canaccord Genuity. Applied…
ThinkstockHostess Brands for Sale Hostess may be dead, but its popular brands are not. Several other food companies believe they can make money on the Hostess asset base, and the auction process to sell…
courtesy of Facebook Inc.Bank regulators loosen Basel accords to help increase bank lending. (Reuters) Research from the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) shows that the United States is a favored place…
U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning following the report that nonfarm payrolls had grown by 155,000, better than the expected growth of 150,000 (more coverage here). The December unemployment rate came in…
Jeffrey Lacker, President of the Richmond Federal Reserve, is out with what are becoming more and more routine comments talking about dissension inside the Federal Reserve. Lacker is consistently the one voice against continued…
Being disappointed with work or being disappointed with corporate America is really not nothing new. The degree to how much certain members of the public will go to voice their opinion is sometimes funny and…
ThinkstockFor years tech investors eagerly awaited each new quarter to determine yet again how much Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) was dominating the semiconductor industry. The explosive growth of personal computers (PCs) followed by that…
24/7 Wall St. has identified its 2013 peak target for the Dow Jones Industrial Average of 14,590, which would translate to gains of more than 11.3% for investors. What is interesting is the breakdown…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research firms this Friday. Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK) cut to Neutral at Citigroup. Cepheid…
Every Wall St. firm has a lengthy list of Buy-rated stocks. Analysts in the various sectors the firm covers are asked from time to time to present to the director of research their absolute…
ThinkstockVenezuelan Oil Lost among most of the discussions about the health of Venezuela’s president-for-life, Hugo Chavez, as he moves toward what seems will be an imminent death is the future of the nation’s oil…
courtesy of NetflixTim Geithner’s departure from Treasury will deprive President Obama of his longest serving financial adviser. (Reuters) Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) settles antitrust charges by the United States with very little penalty. (Reuters)…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following a higher-than-expected report of new claims for unemployment benefits (more coverage here). The news more than compensated for the afterglow of yesterday’s big gains and the…
ThinkstockByron Wien announced his predictions for 10 big surprises for 2013 this week to kick off the new year. Wien is now vice chairman at Blackstone Advisory Partners, and this was his 28th year…
The stock market is down slightly Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.19%, the Nasdaq down 0.02% and the S&P 500 down 0.08%. Today’s sole winner is a solar energy company selling…