Courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) has been on fire to the point that the stock price surpassed gravity. Then it surpassed logic. Elon Musk’s luxury electric vehicle outfit is getting a…
ThinkstockPrivate equity backers are generally eager to take profits when they can, particularly after they have brought a portfolio company back to the stock market. After all initial public offerings (IPOs), an insider lockup…
Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) has announced that it is launching its first alternative investment-focused mutual fund that offers daily liquidity. In short, this is a mutual fund that is comprised of investing hedge…
These are the top analyst downgrades, cautious research notes and stocks to sell from Wall Street for Tuesday, July 16, 2013. They include DaVita HealthCare, J.P. Morgan, Brinker International and Ford.
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Tuesday, July 16, 2013. They include Baidu, Citigroup, GM, Ford and Yum! Brands.
thinkstockPackaged food and dairy products maker WhiteWave Foods Inc. (NYSE: WWAV) announced preliminary data for its second quarter after markets closed today. The company said it would report net sales of $616 million and…
July 15, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning but the report on U.S. retail sales pushed shares into the red early. A later report on business inventories helped pull stocks out of a…
ThinkstockCONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNX) is one of the top players in the battered and out of favor coal sector. With politics working against coal and environmental regulation perpetually on the rise, it would…
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is calling for additional upside for the S&P 500 Index. The firm’s new price target for 2013 is 1,750 versus a prior target of only 1,600. While the 1,600…
ThinkstockDuke Energy Corp. (NYSE: DUK) may soon recapture some of its credit profile that had eroded for more than the past year, since its Progress merger. Moody’s Investors Service has now placed Duke’s corporate…
Thinkstock The U.S. equity strategists at Deutsche Bank A.G. (NYSE: DB) who cover S&P 500 stocks with exposure to China have long argued that China’s impact to S&P earnings is mostly through its effect…
Wikimedia CommonsThe stock market rallied to new highs last week on the strength of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s comments on the continuation of the easy money policies that are flooding the economy with…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Monday, July 15, 2013. They include NetApp, J.P. Morgan, UPS and Bank of New York.
Jon OggThe stock market is hitting new highs again, and the fear of the Bernanke exit and tapering of quantitative easing is becoming less and less prevalent. 24/7 Wall St. looks at many research…
July 12, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning as European industrial production was below expectations and U.S. PPI was a bit higher than expected. The other major U.S. data point out…