Time for our daily look at the world of commodity prices and key developments. Corn futures continue their seemingly inexorable march toward $8/bushel as wet and windy weather in the US Midwest...
The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning and spent most of the day heading lower still. Economic data was mixed at best today, with the flash PMI number lower than expected in China...
The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning after Japan reported an unexpected plunge in its exports in July (our coverage here). In Europe there was not economic news out today, and...
Equities opened modestly down this morning and the three major indexes have stayed within a few points of flat all day. The NASDAQ composite has remained in positive territory as the technology...
Who thought generics could ever look so bad?  This morning, Barr Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: BRL) has posted very poor numbers. The company posted $0.57 EPS, far under the First Call consensus of...
By William Trent, CFA of Stock Market Beat Large Cap Watch List member Barr Pharmaceuticals (BRL) reported a GAAP Loss: For the three months ended December 31, 2006, the Company recorded a loss of...
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After scPhamaceuticals announced that it had received a Complete Response Letter from the FDA, its shares were absolutely crushed on Monday.
These are not the only upgrades and downgrades affecting shares in pre-market trading today, but these are the initial calls that 247WallSt.com is focusing on: American Express (NYSE: AXP), Capital...
Almost every day someone named "Wild Bill" at TheCapitalReport.com sends out up-beat news on a small Canadian company called HearAtLast (HRAL). The information comes through an e-mail...
Harris Corp. (NYSE: HRS) is seeing shares down 15% at $55.66 on almost 4-times average trading volume today.  This is after the company said it wasn’t for sale after it was believed that...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning.Baidu.com (NASDAQ: BIDU) Raised to Overweight at HSBC. Charles River...
Source: ThinkstockAt an energy conference in New Orleans today, the CEO of Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB) said that downward pressure on prices for the company’s hydraulic fracturing (fracking)...
Wall Street thought Halliburton (HAL) would do well last quarter. The First Call estimates were for $0.56 EPS on nearly $3.5 Billion in revenues. As it turned out income from continuing operations in...