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STMicroelectronics NV Rating Reiterated by BNP Paribas (STM)
STMicroelectronics NV (EPA: STM)‘s stock had its “outperform” rating reiterated by equities research analysts at BNP Paribas in a research note issued to investors on Monday, Analyst Ratings Network.com reports. They... More of this article »
Sanford C. Bernstein Reiterates Market Perform Rating for Pernod Ricard SA (RI)
Pernod Ricard SA (EPA: RI)‘s stock had its “market perform” rating reiterated by analysts at Sanford C. Bernstein in a research report issued to clients and investors on Tuesday, ARN reports. They currently have a... More of this article »
Koninklijke BAM Groep NV’s “Buy” Rating Reaffirmed at Kempen & Co (BAMNB)
Koninklijke BAM Groep NV (AMS: BAMNB)‘s stock had its “buy” rating reiterated by stock analysts at Kempen & Co in a report issued on Tuesday, Analyst Ratings Network reports. They currently have a €4.50... More of this article »
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG’s “Outperform” Rating Reaffirmed at Sanford C. Bernstein (BMW)
Sanford C. Bernstein reaffirmed their outperform rating on shares of Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (ETR: BMW) in a research note issued to investors on Friday, StockRatingsNetwork.com reports. Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (ETR: BMW)... More of this article »
Buckle (BKE) Plans Quarterly Dividend of $0.20
Buckle (NYSE:BKE) declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, June 3rd, AnalystRatingsNetwork.com reports. Stockholders of record on Monday, July 15th will be given a dividend of $0.20 per share on Friday, July 26th. This represents a... More of this article »
Family Dollar Stores Plans Quarterly Dividend of $0.26 (FDO)
Family Dollar Stores (NYSE:FDO) announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, June 3rd, AnalystRatingsNetwork reports. Stockholders of record on Friday, June 14th will be paid a dividend of $0.26 per share on Monday, July 15th. This represents... More of this article »
AlphaValue Reiterates “Buy” Rating for Alstom SA (ALO)
Alstom SA (EPA: ALO)‘s stock had its “buy” rating restated by AlphaValue in a research note issued on Monday, Analyst Ratings Network reports. They currently have a €42.10 ($54.68) price objective on the stock. Alstom... More of this article »
Bonterra Energy Corp (BNE) Announces May 13 Dividend of $0.28
Bonterra Energy Corp (TSE:BNE) declared a may 13 dividend on Monday, June 3rd, Stock Ratings Network reports. Investors of record on Friday, June 14th will be given a dividend of $0.28 per share on Friday, June 28th. The ex-dividend... More of this article »
Groupe Danone SA Given “Neutral” Rating at JPMorgan Chase (BN)
JPMorgan Chase reaffirmed their neutral rating on shares of Groupe Danone SA (EPA: BN) in a research note issued to investors on Wednesday, Analyst Ratings Network.com reports. Shares of Groupe Danone SA (EPA: BN) opened at 57.12... More of this article »
Modine Manufacturing (MOD) Releases Quarterly Earnings, Beats Expectations By $0.01 EPS
Modine Manufacturing (NYSE: MOD) released its earnings data on Thursday. The company reported $0.18 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.17 by $0.01, Analyst Ratings Network.com reports. The... More of this article »
Commerzbank AG Upgraded by RBC Capital to Sector Perform (CBK)
RBC Capital upgraded shares of Commerzbank AG (ETR: CBK) to a sector perform rating in a research note issued to investors on Tuesday, AnalystRatingsNetwork.com reports. The firm currently has €8.50 ($11.04) price target on the... More of this article »
Boliden AB Stock Rating Reaffirmed by BNP Paribas (BOL)
Boliden AB (STO: BOL)‘s stock had its “neutral” rating restated by investment analysts at BNP Paribas in a note issued to investors on Tuesday, Analyst Ratings Network reports. They currently have a SEK 90 price target... More of this article »
The Fresh Market (TFM) Releases FY14 Earnings Guidance
The Fresh Market (NYSE: TFM) updated its FY14 earnings guidance on Wednesday. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $1.51-1.58 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $1.54, Analyst... More of this article »
BancFirst Co. (BANF) Declares Quarterly Dividend of $0.29
BancFirst (NASDAQ:BANF) announced a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, May 28th, AnalystRatingsNetwork.com reports. Stockholders of record on Sunday, June 30th will be paid a dividend of $0.29 per share on Monday, July 15th. This represents... More of this article »
Inditex SA Rating Reiterated by NMAS 1 Agencia de Valores (ITX)
NMAS 1 Agencia de Valores reissued their neutral rating on shares of Inditex SA (MCE: ITX) in a research note released on Friday morning, Analyst Ratings.Net reports. They currently have a €110.00 ($142.86) target price on the... More of this article »
Vallourec SA Stock Rating Reaffirmed by BNP Paribas (VK)
Vallourec SA (EPA: VK)‘s stock had its “outperform” rating restated by analysts at BNP Paribas in a research report issued to clients and investors on Tuesday, Analyst Ratings.Net reports. They currently have a €47.00... More of this article »
SMA Solar Rating Lowered to Sell at Equinet Institutional Services (S92)
Equinet Institutional Services lowered shares of SMA Solar (EU: S92) from a hold rating to a sell rating in a research report released on Thursday morning, Stock Ratings Network.com reports. Read More on this article »
Enel S.p.A. Stock Rating Reaffirmed by Banca Akros (ENEL)
Enel S.p.A. (BIT: ENEL)‘s stock had its “hold” rating restated by Banca Akros in a research note issued on Friday, Analyst Ratings Network reports. They currently have a €2.80 ($3.64) price target on the stock. Enel... More of this article »
Wereldhave NV’s Neutral Rating Reaffirmed at Kempen & Co (WER)
Wereldhave NV (EU: WER)‘s stock had its “neutral” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Kempen & Co in a research report issued to clients and investors on Friday, StockRatingsNetwork reports. They currently have... More of this article »
Unione di Banche Italiane SCPA Rating Reiterated by Kepler Cheuvreux (UBI)
Kepler Cheuvreux reissued their hold rating on shares of Unione di Banche Italiane SCPA (BIT: UBI) in a research report sent to investors on Thursday morning, StockRatingsNetwork.com reports. The firm currently has a €3.50 ($4.55)... More of this article »
Daimler AG Rating Reiterated by Sanford C. Bernstein (DAI)
Sanford C. Bernstein restated their market perform rating on shares of Daimler AG (ETR: DAI) in a research note issued to investors on Thursday, StockRatingsNetwork reports. The firm currently has a €55.00 ($71.43) price target... More of this article »
Electronics Giant Best Buy Pulls Out of Europe
Troubled electronics retailer Best Buy has decided to pull the plug on Europe. After only five years in Europe, the company will sell its stake in its joint venture with Carphone Warehouse for close to $775 million in stock and cash. Best... More of this article »
Chrysler’s Quarterly Earnings Plunge due to Model Changes
Chrysler Groups announced its earnings for the first quarter were $166 million, which was down over 65%. Revenue was $15.4 billion, which was down 6%. Chrysler announced that the first quarter was affected negatively by reduced shipments... More of this article »
Earnings for Southwest Exceed Wall Street Expectations
Southwest Airlines earned more during the first quarter than what analysts from Wall Street had estimated, but officials from the airline said the federal budget cuts could hurt revenue for the airline going forward. An airfare increase... More of this article »
Jobless Claims Increase to 352,000
The latest unemployment claims report showed the initial jobless claims to go up while continued unemployment claims dropped. Initial claims were below the 400K level. Seasonally adjusted initial unemployment claims went up 4,000 to... More of this article »
Housing Starts Go Up due to High Demand for Multifamily Units
New-home construction in the United States went up in March to its highest level in five years. It was attributed to the increase in the demand for multifamily buildings that support economic growth. Starts gained 7 percent to a 1.04... More of this article »
Nissan, Honda and Toyota Announce Huge Recall
On Thursday, the big three carmakers of Japan announced that a recall of more than 3 million vehicles will take place around the world because of defects the air bag system has on the passenger side of the vehicles. Takata Corp, a... More of this article »
Dell Computer Receives more Bids for Takeover
Dell Inc, once the largest personal computer maker in the world, has received two more takeover bids that could be better than the original one received by Dell’s founder Michael Dell last month. The two bids that will compete with... More of this article »
Google: More Jobs Cuts for Motorola Mobility
Google, the Internet search giant has announced that its unprofitable Motorola Mobility unit continues to struggle in its attempt to compete with the world’s smartphone makers. Google said that up to 1,200 jobs would be cut from... More of this article »
Zynga Reports Losses Lower than Wall Street Estimates
The online game company, Zynga said late Tuesday that it narrowed its losses for the fourth quarter, even though revenue remained flat. The company was able to reduce its loss from the same period a year ago because it closed offices,... More of this article »
Profits for China’s Lenovo Beat Estimates
Computer maker Lenovo Group Ltd. based in China, is on its way to claiming the top spot in personal computer manufacturing in the world. The company also reported a record profit for its recently ended third quarter. The profit was... More of this article »
Japanese Automakers Make Huge Comeback
Toyota, the Japanese automaker, has once again taken over the top spot as the largest automaker in the world. Toyota lost that distinction in 2011 to General Motors, but in 2012 sold more than 9.75 million autos to set a new record.... More of this article »
FDA Approves New Use for Pfizer Vaccine
Pfizer received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday to use Prevnar 13 in children and adolescents between the age of 6 and 17 to prevent Invasive Pneumococcal Disease. Prevnar 13 becomes the first and just... More of this article »
UPS Ends Bid of $7 Billion to acquire TNT Express
UPS the delivery company ended its bid of $7 billion to acquire TNT Express after authorities from Europe said they would stop the acquisition on grounds it would hurt competition. Officials from the European Commission told UPS (United... More of this article »
Japanese FIsh Market Sells Bluefin for $1.8 Million
Japan set a new record for the price of tuna this week, after a huge bluefin tuna was auctioned off for $1.8 million in the first auction of the New Year at Tokyo’s Tsukiji Fish Market. The new record was nearly three times higher... More of this article »
Holiday Shoppers Discourage Investors
On Wednesday, in light trading, stocks were down for the third straight day thanks to the ongoing anxiety over the possible budget cuts, increase in taxes and the less than anticipated holiday retail sales figures. Trading was very... More of this article »
Retail Sales Jump in November thanks to Autos and Holiday Shoppers
U.S. retail sales increased in November, as automobile demand returned and shopper started holiday shopping for clothes and electronics. The gain of 0.3% for November followed a decrease of 0.3% for October. The average forecast by... More of this article »
McDonald’s Beats Sales Estimates
Same-store sales globally at McDonald’s increased at a bigger than expected rate of 2.4% during November, as the largest fast food group in the world succeeded in reversing its decline that was reported in early November for October. Analysts... More of this article »
Weekly Price of Crude dropping for first time since October
Oil is on track to fall this week for the first weekly drop since mid October, as a forecast for economic growth in Germany was lowered and an earthquake in Japan created worry that consumption of crude might be lowered. Bundesbank,... More of this article »
Stock Price Surges for Groupon
Groupon Inc. stock shares increased earlier this week by over 10% after a 9.9% stake in the company was purchased by a hedge fund. Tiger Global Investments discloses it had purchased 65 million shares in their securities filing Monday.... More of this article »
Fraud Alleged by Hewlett-Packard in Autonomy Acquisition
On Tuesday morning, Hewlett-Packard asserted there were instances of financial fraud involved with its purchase of Autonomy, the software business, in 2011. HP paid over $10 billion for the business. At the same time, the company released... More of this article »
Wall Street cuts into Apple Market Capitalization
Apple stock took another big hit on Wall Street last week. The hit took the tech giant’s market cap below the $500 billion mark for only the first time in close to six months. Even though Apple had strong financials for the third... More of this article »
Omnicell (OMCL) Completes MTS Medication Tech Bid
Omnicell, Inc., (NASDAQ:OMCL) announced today it has completed its acquisition of MTS Medication Technologies, Inc., which the company had previously stated on May 2nd, 2012 that it intended to do. Randall Lipps, chairman, president... More of this article »
OriGene Technologies Acquires Beijing Zhongshan Golden Bridge Biotechnology
OriGene Technologies, Inc. announced today the acquisition of Beijing Zhongshan Golden Bridge Biotechnology Co., Ltd (ZsBio). Founded in the year 1993, ZsBio provides testing products (pathology) within their domestic Chinese market,... More of this article »
General Electric Shares have Channel Support
During Wednesday’s trading session traders observed General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) shares descend to an intraday low of $18.70 per share which is a penny above the channel low of $18.69 seen January 31st, 2012. Should shares... More of this article »
SolarWinds’ Stock Recovers Monday’s Lost Ground Amid 4Q 2011 Results
During yesterday’s market session, shares of SolarWinds, Inc. (NYSE:SWI) gapped up at the morning open which surely was a welcomed occurrence to long-positioned traders. Trouble is, shares fell below where they closed the previous... More of this article »
Natural Resoure Partners Completes Fifth Coal Reserve Acquisition
Natural Resource Partners L.P. (NYSE:NRP) has completed its fifth coal reserve acquisition at Deer Run mine near Hillsboro, Illinois, according to a company statement released earlier today. The new acquisition comes at the expense... More of this article »
3M Company (MMM) Introduces Flat, Foldable HDMI Cable at CES 2012
The 3M Company (NYSE:MMM) introduced a new type of HDMI cable at CES 2012 today, except it fell flat. Well, come to find out, it’s supposed to be flat. Flat HDMI. Nothing too unusual are flat cables. They do help in installation... More of this article »