This week should be the last waves of the normalized quarterly earnings reports for companies with December 31 quarter-end dates.  We are also starting to get a few of the first waves of the...
Source: Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Tuesday.AK Steel Corp. (NYSE: AKS) raised to Neutral at Goldman...
U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning and spent most of the day bouncing around above the break-even line. In Asia, the Bank of Japan will double its monthly asset purchases to...
Source: Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Friday morning.Annaly Capital Management Inc. (NYSE: NLY) cut to Hold at...
October may have been one of the best months of many of our lives in equities. The SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) rose by 10.9%. in October, but the year-to-date gain has been a mere 1.2% from the...
NYSE Euronext started trading five multi-asset class and multi-target date ETF’s referred to as TDAX Independence ETFs on NYSE Arca.  These ETF’s are designed to track the...
The three major US stock indexes opened a bit higher this morning, and after some volatility have managed to get to the final half hour of trading with a modest gain. Some news is leaking out about...
Yesterday was a Cluster-something or an outright debacle.  The stock market was a sea of red, but outside of inverse-ETF products there were actually many winners.  We tried to look for the active...
The latest and M&A deal in the world of technology and communications came to ADC Telecommunications Inc. (NASDAQ: ADCT) this week, where Tyco Electronics, Ltd. (NYSE: TEL) is paying $12.75 per share...
You have likely heard of target date funds, those funds which mix between bond and stock allocations depending upon when your target retirement date happens to be.  There are some new target date...
These are some of the early analyst downgrades we are seeing from Wall Street this Friday morning with about two and a half hours until the open: Diamond Offshore (DO) Cut to Hold at Jefferies. Ensco...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) Cut to Neutral from Buy at Goldman Sachs....
Dynavax Technologies saw its shares make a handy gain early on Wednesday after the company announced that it received a recommendation from the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Shares of Goldman Sachs BDC began trading Wednesday morning at $19.50, below the expected range of $20 to $21.