Stocks to Watch Today (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Morgan Stanley (MS) analyst Robert Wertheimer this morning raised his rating on heavy equipment maker Deere (DE) from “Equal Weight” to “Overweight,” arguing the overly negative sentiment on the stock presents “a unique opportunity” given the stock’s reasonable valuation. Among the catalysts, farmers will need new tractors as corn demand [...]
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Deere & Co. was upped to overweight from equal-weight by Morgan Stanley, which lifted its price target to $64 from $48. "Demand for U.S. farm equipment is growing as customers add acreage, a secular phenomenon that is widely underestimated. Cyclical factors are also more favorable than most believe, with corn likely higher into 2010 and the potential for recovery in...
TechRadar (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
2010 will see the smartphone become increasingly popular, with experts predicting that advanced handsets will drop closer to the £100 mark in the coming months. With the likes of Apple's iPhone and the wealth of Android phones making a huge impact on the market, smartphones are becoming increasingly prevalent. And at the Morgan Stanley Annual Technology, Media and Telecoms Conference in Barcelona...
24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
These are this Monday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: American Express (NYSE: AXP) Started as Overweight at Morgan Stanley. Capital One (NYSE: COF) Started as Equal Weight at Morgan Stanley. Deere (NYSE: DE) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley. D.R. Horton (NYSE: DHI) Raised to Hold at Citigroup. Jefferies (NYSE: JEF) Cut to [...]
Cara Community - Comments (Free subscription) | 58 minutes ago
In reply to Blog for November 23, 2009 : TN_blogger Re: "I have noticed you follow CS (research) closely" There are about six or so HB&B research teams that I particularly like, and since UBS, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley threatened to sue me if I so much as mention them, I am now using CS, holding a couple more in research for the day CS decides to join the line. :-) I like the...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Owners Research Group today announced the conclusion of a first-of-its-kind survey of major shareholders of six premier U.S. banking institutions. The institutional shareholders of Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo provided feedback to directors on a range of issues, including corporate governance, executive compensation,...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Technology stocks posted gains across the board early Monday as the broader market also advanced. The Nasdaq Composite Index added 1.2% at the opening bell, rising to 2,172. The Morgan Stanley High Tech 35 Index was also up 1.2%, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index gained 1.5%. Gains came from major players, including Hewlett-Packard , Google Inc. and Amazon.com...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
A most energetic response coming in here from the reader base for the Economist quiz . First picture : Tea-partiers ask to cut government down to size. "No, Mr. Citibank, I expect you to die!" The White House staff sings the Internationale while attending Morgan Stanley's briss. "Will Lego-Man escape the clutches of the evil Toy Baron?" Second picture : An engineering mishap during...
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Filed under: Analyst reports , Analyst upgrades and downgrades , Starbucks (SBUX) , American Express (AXP) , Ciena Corp (CIEN) , Analyst initiations , Deere and Co (DE) Analyst upgrades: Jefferies upgraded Starbucks ( SBUX ) to buy from hold, citing EPS and revenue momentum heading into 2010. The firm raised its target to $25 from $22. Soleil upgraded Zions Bancorp ( ZION ) to buy from hold on valuation...
StreetInsider.com News Articles (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
UPGRADES: Jefferies upgraded Strabucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) from Hold to Buy, lifting their price target from $22 to $25. Citigroup upgrades DR Horton (NYSE: DHI) from Sell to Hold with a $10.50 price target. Morgan Stanley is upgrading Deere (NYSE: DE) to Overweight from Equal-Weight with a $64 price target (prev. $48). For more color, Click Here . J.P. Morgan upgrades WellPoint (NYSE: WLP) from Neutral...
Fiercebiotech (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, a 2009 Fierce 15 company , has filed to go public, hoping raise $172 million and trade on Nasdaq. So far, Ironwood has raised $306 million in financing, according to an article in the Mass High Tech . The company has one drug candidate in Phase III clinical trials, linaclotide, a potential treatment for irritable bowel syndrome and other gastrointestinal...
PEU Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
Carlyle Group senior leaders occupy seats in corporate board rooms across the land. Charles Rossotti Bank of America (Jan. 2009) AES Corporation Merrill Lynch James Hance Morgan Stanley (Aug. 2009) Duke Energy Rayonier (alongside Jeb Bush) Sprint Nextel Cousins Properties Daniel F. Akerson General Motors American Express Time Warner Freescale Semiconductor The Nielsen Company MultiPlan Booz Allen Hamilton...
SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Johnston submits: The week on Wall Street came to an end rather quietly despite high profile news from a couple major banks. Some of Goldman Sachs’ largest shareholders have urged the company to shrink its bonus pool and pass along more to investors, while Morgan Stanley closed the books on its disastrous acquisition of Crescent Real Estate Equities, turning the company over to lender...
Corrente (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Nation : Who drafted this dubious piece of legislation? Bankers (or their lawyers) did. The leading sellers of derivatives are an exclusive club of five very large financial institutions--Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs--that hold 95 percent of the derivatives exposure among the largest banks (the total contract value exceeds $290 trillion). These are...
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neilsamsung | 25/09/2009
Property prices are rising fast as the tech boom spreads across the country. When Farallon Capital Management, a U.S. hedge fund, and its joint-venture partner, Indiabulls, snapped up an 11-acre property in central Mumbai in March 2005 for $54.5 million an acre, the purchase was called an act of idiocy by local developers. A few months later, when the same joint venture offered $95.5 million an acre...
integrityfx | 11/06/2009
Back in October 2008, then US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson met with CEOs of the 9 largest US banks. During that meeting, it was reported that Paulson required the CEOs to take TARP money whether they wanted the money or not. In May, Judicial Watch released talking points taken from official documents from those meetings. The talking points used by Paulson in that meeting include the comment that
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