These are this Thursday’s top ten analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Aixtron Aktiengesellschaft (NASDAQ: AIXG) Started as Buy at UBS....
There are other analyst calls affecting shares this morning, but these are ten of the top calls that we are focusing on this Thursday in pre-market trading:AFLAC (NYSE: AFL) cut to Neutral from Buy...
As you will see below, there were many key changes to short sales in oil stocks.  Some of these would have been expected to have gone up because oil was so weak.  But there were many...
In a perhaps late research call in the oilpatch, Goldman Sachs has downgraded the exploration & production sector to Neutral from attractive and downgraded the oil services sector to Neutral from...
For the past 40 years a natural gas liquefaction plant on Alaska’s Cook Inlet has been producing LNG and shipping it to Asia. The plant is owned by ConocoPhillips Corp. (NYSE: COP), Marathon Oil...
Stock Tickers: BP, VLO, MRO, BHI, RIG, XOM, CVX, COP, SLB, HAL, OIH The short interest for MAY 2007 is out and the oil and energy patch names is fairly mixed.  The Oil Service HOLDRs (OIH)...
Even with oil prices well off of recent highs, these are still very much considered as above historical highs.  The large integrated oil companies have experienced either declines or very small...
These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms.BP plc (NYSE: BP) Cut to Hold at Societe Generale. CIENA...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning.Biogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer....
Source: Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Friday morning.Apache Corporation (NYSE: APA) Started as...
When Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) announced its deal to acquire Britain’s Cadbury in May 2010, investor Warren Buffett proclaimed it a “dumb” deal and promptly cut his holdings in Kraft stock...
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement, BOEMRE, has notified 13 companies that they will be able to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico without needing to submit new...
We have some major changes announced by S&P for its three key indexes.  Changes are in the S&P 500 Index, S&P Mid-Cap 400 Index, and in the S&P SMall Cap 600 Index.Marathon Petroleum Corporation...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning.Advance Auto Parts Inc. (NYSE: AAP) Cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse....
The reaction to the news of a conglomerate break-up in a three-way separation was incredible for ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) yesterday.  Shares closed up 16.5% rather than over 20% and the closing...