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These are some of the more prominent analyst upgrades and downgrades seen this Friday morning from Wall Street research calls: Allergan Inc. (NYSE: AGN) Started as Outperform at Macquarie. ARM...
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Today, Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) announced that it has agreed to a $100 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the agency’s investigation into the company’s...
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Concerns about the economy ran well ahead of those about the environment and the clean up in the Gulf. That should not be a surprise because there is a great deal of evidence about the economy...
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YRC Worldwide Inc. (NASDAQ: YRCW) is starting to do what many companies do when they have a large business with thousands of shareholders and employees with a low stock price that it is on the verge...
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Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) (OTC-BB: FNMA) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) (OTC-BB: FMCC) have both just made their ‘public service announcements’ showing the new tickers for the shares of their common...
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Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) had its annual meeting of shareholders today. The still relatively new CEO Carol Bartz says she wants to improve the company’s margins to build shareholder value. She...
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Dow component Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) and Lowe’s Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) probably would have been soft today with or without an analyst downgrade. The housing data is not compelling enough...
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UK unions may not take to the streets to protest the new austerity budget the way the Greeks or Spanish have. Or, they might. George Osborne, the finance minister, proposed a plan to wring out 113...
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Restructuring never ends in many large corporations. After a week’s worth of reading through dozens of corporate deals in the pipeline and analyzing others which could be close, it seems that...
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Founders of companies can become worth hundreds of millions of dollars, or even billions, when they keep large shareholdings in their companies. The catch is that the companies have to succeed. ...
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Do you recall the press release hoax in 2000 that hit Emulex Corp. (NYSE: ELX)? It was a disaster and also changed the manner in which many reporters covered news based upon corporate press...
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Thor Industries, Inc. (NYSE: THO) is not a typical company we would cover for an earnings report. Today is no normal earnings report. The company did post rather impressive numbers, but that is...
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A little over two weeks ago, we ran a list of “8 Big Companies With High E.U. Exposure” to see which companies had the most at risk due to the geographic ability of the customer base. We have...
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Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is going for the headline effect this morning at its 40th Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The company announced that its Board of Directors has just approved a new...
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There are two words that investors fear inside of public companies:accounting irregularities. That is what is hitting shares of Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ) this morning. The company said...
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