We may have just witnessed an oversold bounce in the stock market, or we may be in for more days of recovery.  The markets are flirting with six weeks of negative performance and one day is not...
Source: Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Wednesday morning.AK Steel Holding Corp. (NYSE: AKS)...
Last week was a jam-packed week of earnings reports and this week has many key reports.  We have provided earnings previews for 11 companies we expect to follow this week.  Estimates are from...
If you have seen one trend that has lasted in 2011 it is that companies are hiking their dividend payouts for their shareholders.  Many classic investment models are based almost entirely around...
The S&P downgrade of the United States may have the investment community in a fuss, but many investors saw this coming long before.  To say that investors will not see a knee-jerk reaction in...
By now the markets figured out that all of this week’s preliminary jobs numbers did in fact call it right that the unemployment and jobs report was right.  So investors are scrambling to find...
Many research firms and brokerage firms maintain a list of best ideas for the year, and these often get updated quarterly or as companies reach a target or as they fall out of favor.  This week came...
Source: Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Thursday.Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) raised to Outperform at RBC...
It is one thing that we had two fairly large IPOs this week.  But the flood of public secondary stock offerings is almost running at alarming levels when you consider that these share sales are...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning.Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: AEIS) Raised to Buy and...
Source: Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls.American Water Works Co. Inc. (NYSE: AWK) cut to Neutral at...
When you have a day of -500 DJIA points and when you have the panic back on, it is just assumed that every stock you have in your portfolio is going to be down.  Not so fast.  There are almost...
When the summer selling was reaching a first climax in August, 24/7 Wall St. released “The Great Dividend Portfolio” for dividend investors who search for both high-yield and some degree...
Source: courtesy of the Walt Disney Co.You know it is a bull market when you see major household names hitting 52-week highs. Right now we have many major stocks hitting fresh all-time highs! Should...
The bulls ran for cover today as commodities and financial stocks are pulling the market lower.  After two huge ‘sell the news’ earnings reactions were followed by even more ‘sell the news’...