It is now no secret that we are in a very weak economic environment and if it is not an official recession it is for about 80% of the country.  We’ve already seen some retailers collapse entirely...
These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls that we have seen from Wall Street firms early this Monday morning: Applied Signal (APSG) Raised to Buy at...
When we see a blow-up at Tuesday Morning (NASDAQ:TUES) to the tune of this much, we look at other stores.  The truth is that Tuesday Morning is still a clearance center stock like a Big Lots...
These are some of the top downgrades and negative calls we are seeing from Wall Street analysts this Tuesday morning: Developers Diversified (DDR) Cut to Neutral at Goldman Sachs. Federated Investors...
Pier 1 Imports (PIR) shareholders have been through a painful quarter. Stock in the company have dropped over 40% in the last 90 days.That got worse today. PIR said its same-store sales for the...
Cost Plus Inc. (NASDAQ: CPWM) is one company which we might generally skip due to its size and volume.  The insider buying of late has been too large to ignore.  This is one of the retailers that...
At the beginning of the decade a number of internet and next-generation technology companies raised money through venture capitalists and IPOs. Many of these companies had little, if any, revenue....
Source: ThinkstockWith ICR XChange, one of the world’s largest consumer symposiums, coming up this week in Miami, we thought it would be a good time to take a look at consumer stocks. There is a...
We have a little flurry of key earnings coming this week.  We have provided detailed earnings estimates with Thomson Reuters consensus figures, with our own color for the recent performance, the...
While earnings season is over, we are still getting earnings reports from many of the off-cycle and off-quarter companies.  Some of the companies on deck to report earnings next week may actually be...
A lot of fairly well-known public companies either disappeared or went bankrupt this year. Circuit City is on the list. Based on the most recent news GM may get added soon.24/7 Wall St. looked at...
These are some of the top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning: Dish Networks (NASDAQ: DISH) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan....
Source: Jon OggThese are some of this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls.Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) Raised to Buy and $36 target at...
These aren’t the only impact analyst calls this morning, but these are the ones we are focusing the Tuesday in pre-market trading hours: Akamai Tech (NASDAQ: AKAM) Raised to Buy from Neutral at...