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Source: ThinkstockTuesday marked the annual shareholder meeting for troubled telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU). What investors need to know is that the new CEO, Michel Combes,...
Source: Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Tuesday.Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) started as Neutral at Goldman...
Source: This graphic was drawn by SKopp.[Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsThe big news might have read “MOODY’S DOWNGRADES FRANCE” had it not been for the Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ)...
Source: Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Friday.Dean Foods Company (NYSE: DF) Cut to Neutral at Goldman...
Source: Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Wednesday morning.Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) Maintained...
Source: Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Thursday morning.American Express Co. (NYSE: AXP)...
Sony (NYSE: SNE) will sell its LCD business to Samsung for $940 million. (Reuters)The yuan hits a high against the dollar and may gain 4% this year. (Reuters)Amazon.com’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) program to...
Source: Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning.AK Steel Holding Corporation (NYSE: AKS) Raised to...
Source: Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning.Brightpoint Inc. (NASDAQ: CELL) Reiterate as Buy with...
The action out of China’s virtual easing by lowering reserve requirements was already a boost to global markets, but the coordinated central bank efforts of the U.S., Canada, Europe,...
The Eurozone growth rate of 0.2% in the third quarter may have met expectations but this is just one more example that growth is so low already that getting out of the debt hole is going to be no...
Well, it used to be Greece taking us down daily, but now it is the much larger concern of Italy.  The markets were supposed to be cheering that Silvio Berlusconi was going to step down but then...
Greece and the rest of the PIIGS were hurting us for so long that it seems hard to believe that the Europeans are setting a 50% haircut for the Greek sovereign debt and that they have agreed to a...
It feels like Groundhog day in Europe.  Greece fears are escalating and European markets are sharply lower.  The Europeans are just unwilling or are unable to deal with their woes in a timely...
European stocks are leading the markets this morning and the direction is lower.  Greece projected that 2012 deficits will be above plan and the nation has effectively admitted that it will not meet...