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These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades from Wall Street this Monday morning with well over two hours until the open: Ameristar Casinos (ASCA) Raised to Overweight at JPMorgan. Barrick...
Being in the mutual fund and institutional money management business is almost as bad as being in commercial banking. Several companies in the industry have lost half of their assets between...
There is an interesting trend where Barclays has essentially cut its rankings on hedge fund and private equity operators. Here are the calls, plus a call elsewhere on a bank: Blackstone (NYSE: BX)...
The board of AllianceBernstein (AB), controlled by majority shareholder AXA, dumped longtime CEO Lew Sanders. The stock has been way down recently. Over the last year it is off over 70%, but so are...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades we are seeing from Wall Street this Thursday morning with about two hours to the open: First Solar (FSLR) Raised to Buy at Merriman Curhan Ford. Janus...
These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades we are seeing this Friday-crash morning: Allegheny Tech (ATI) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank. Baidu.com (BIDU) Target Cut to $260 from $350 at...
These are some of the top Downgrades or negative calls we are seeing early this Tuesday morning.  Neutral and Hold ratings are not technically negative, but they aren’t ringing endorsements...
These are ten of the top calls we see affecting shares this Friday morning in the early pre-market trading hours: Aetna (NYSE: AET) raised to neutral at Credit Suisse. Baidu.com (NASDAQ: BIDU) raised...
Goldman Sachs has issued a call on its asset manager universe, and says it’s time to go on the offensive.  Its rating on the group is now attractive.  The bulge bracket brokerage leader has also...
By now you have heard news of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s involvement in a prostitution ring.  So much for crime and ethics fighters being immune from temptation.  But what we wanted to see...
Goldman Sachs has lowered estimates on many financial services players this morning: AllianceBernstein (AB) (buy); AMBAC Financial (ABK) (neutral); Blackrock (BLK) (buy); Calamos Asset Mgmt. (CLMS)...
There is a recent boutique research report from earlier in the week showing a list of potential private equity targets from a specialty brokerage firm that I was very positive on from even before its...