The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Thursday morning include Facebook, First Solar, Hess, Texas Instruments, U.S. Steel, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Infinera.
Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations included Accenture, AMD, Apple, Applied Materials, Dunkin' Brands, JPMorgan, Keycorp, Nike, Nvidia and UnitedHealth.
The big banks are going to be rather important to watch this earnings season for the third quarter of 2012 as shares have risen handily from their lows. While banks almost never offer guidance during...
Moody’s recent downgrade of 15 of the world’s largest banks, along with JP Morgan Chase & Co.’s (NYSE: JPM) multibillion trading loss, make it clear that certain big banks are just not as safe...
Source: ThinkstockThe U.S. banking sector is looking better in 2013 than it did in 2012, 2011 and so on. Balance sheets, credit metrics and underlying asset values continue to recover. Still, the...
Banks are back in favor. The most recently announced round of quantitative easing via mortgage-backed securities purchases from the Federal Reserve follows a ratings action earlier this year in...
South Korea’s central bank reportedly is teaming up with Samsung Electronics to test offline central bank digital currency transfers.
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) recently discussed its ambitious digital media plans. Left out of the discussion was the deep dissatisfaction about the firm’s management and performance born of...
Russia’s war in Ukraine dominates the headlines these days, but war rages in other countries, too. Whether due to civil war or fighting among neighboring nations, these wars take a heavy toll on...
Oppenheimer's Robert Du Boff has maintained an Outperform rating and a $23.00 price target on Parsley Energy.
Today, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to conscript 130,000 Russian citizens into military service. Likely, many of these men will be sent to the front in Ukraine, where the war is rapidly...
There is compelling evidence of mass killing of civilians by Myanmar’s military, according to the United Nations. These killings are part of the military’s ongoing efforts to quell armed...
Under the terms of the United States Constitution, congress is the only branch of government with the power to declare war – a power it has not exercised since 1941, the year the United States...
The original terms of the U.S. Constitution place the power to declare war solely in the hands of Congress. A revolutionary concept at the time, the framers of the Constitution reasoned that...
From 13D TrackerActivist investors Carl Ichan made the following changes in a 13F filing from his Icahn Management LP unit:New stakes: Cyberonics Inc. (Nasdaq: CYBX) 607K shares, Hilton (NYSE: HLT)...