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These are some of this Friday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: BP plc (NYSE: BP) target cut at HSBC; Cut to Hold at UniCredit;...
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Crude oil prices are off more than 20% from their high of $87.15 on May 3rd. The major contributor to that slide are serious concerns over sovereign debt primarily in the European Union. The nearly...
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Calling for a stock to double has its risks. That is especially the case when the heady market has turned into a cautious one. Worse still, we have already seen many key companies double,...
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Hell may have frozen over in the world of oil and gas. Shares of oil refinery companies seem to have finally turned a corner. In this aspect, we would be watching Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO)...
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These are this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC) Raised to Buy at Deutsche Bank. GT...
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From the heady heights of the summer of 2008, oil refiners have suffered from a downturn. Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE:VLO) and Tesoro Corp. (NYSE:TSO), which refine and market petroleum products...
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It is hard to not notice the $1.70 gain in WTI NYMEX Crude to over $86.50 per barrel this morning. This is on the heels of new reports of economic recovery after last week’s gains in non-Farm...
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These are this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research notes this morning: Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) Cut to Hold at Deutsche Bank. Alcon Inc. (NYSE:...
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These are this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Aqua America (NYSE: WTR) Cut to Neutral at Macquarie. Brinker International (NYSE:...
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We are starting to see some elevated options trading that appeared on the unusual volume screens. Many of these are pre-earnings trading and some are on other expectations. We have more detailed...
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Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO) may have caused some irreparable harm to itself and to shareholders this week. Losing money is just not something that the investing public was ready to stomach. ...
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This week’s report from the Energy Information Administration noted that “strong supply availability from refiners now running at low utilizations in both Europe and the U.S. is likely to...
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The best thing to say about the 2009 first quarter at refiner Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE:VLO) is that it was better than the first quarter a year ago. Refining margins are higher now, and the...
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There has been a never-ending battle between rapidly changing energy prices and the effect on margins at refineries. Since the beginning of the year, the best-performing crude oil refiner has been...
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Fitch Ratings published a short report on the effect of the compression in crude oil spreads on refiners. We looked at this phenomenon about a month ago. Fitch concludes that the “relative cost...
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