Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Banco Santander, Box, GM, Illumina,...
Stocks were indicated to open higher on Monday despite another 5% drop in Shanghai. Last week’s sell-off was the worst opening week for stocks in our lifetimes, but we cannot forget that investors have...
View ArticleDid Bill Gross Help Janus Earnings?
Janus Capital Group, Inc. (NYSE: JNS) may be gathering its assets at a better rate than the stock market wants to credit it for. Maybe adding Bill Gross, a.k.a. the Bond King, to its roster of...
View Article2 New Smart Growth ETFs Launched by Janus
Janus Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: JNS) has decided to launch two new exchange traded funds (ETFs). These are considered to be enhanced beta ETFs, making for another round of specialty ETFs for investors....
View ArticleBill Gross Issues Warning Signs for Banks, High-Yield and Long-Term Bonds
Janus Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: JNS) has been home to Bill Gross for over a year now. Gross has been referred to as “The Bond King” for years. So what happens when the king of bonds warns investors...
View Article4 New Thematic ETFs Coming: Long-Term Care, Health and Fitness, Obesity,...
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) seem to have taken over the financial world. It has been said through the most recent years that there is an ETF strategy for just about every sector, every theme or every...
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4 Jefferies Top Financial Stocks to Buy as Market Rally Continues
It seems odd that after what appears on the surface to be a true market rally, the major indexes are all just back above the break-even level. However, with two 10% corrections on the books in a...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Baidu, Boeing, Coeur, Disney,...
Stocks traded sharply higher Thursday morning, with news of higher jobless claims, no rate cut from the Bank of England and impeachment in Brazil being back on. Investors still have been looking for...
View ArticleIntroducing the Obesity ETF: Fighting Obesity, Dominated by Novo Nordisk and...
Perhaps you have heard that there is an exchange traded fund (ETF) for just about any sector and just about any theme. Now you can add the war against obesity to the list. Janus Capital Group Inc....
View ArticleTop Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Applied Materials, Kinder Morgan, Las...
Stocks were indicated marginally lower on Tuesday after a small market loss on Monday. This is still the start of the fourth quarter, and next week we will start seeing the third-quarter earnings...
View ArticleWhat Analysts Are Saying About the Janus Merger
Janus Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: JNS) shares saw a handy gain in Monday’s session after it was announced that Janus had agreed to a merger of equals with Henderson Group. After the stock finally settled...
View ArticleTop Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (FSLR, JNS, LM, NLC, NBIX, NEM, SPLS)
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 Capital...
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Market Gives New AllianceBernstein (AB) CEO The Back Of Its Hand
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...
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Downgrading Hedgies, Private Equity & Financials (BX, FIG, GLG, IVZ, JNS,...
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) Cut...
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Merging The Mutual Fund Companies: Janus (JNS) And Alliance Bernstein (AB)...
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...
View ArticleEarly Bird Analyst Upgrades (ASCA, ABX, BX, JNS, JPM, KGC, REP, SAP, TYC, WEN)
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...
View ArticleTop Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BCE, GOOG, IACI, SYMC, VCLK, CSL, CEO,...
These are the top pre-market upgrades and downgrades we have seen from Wall Street this Thursday morning: BCE (BCE) Started as Overweight at Thomas Weisel. Google (GOOG) Raised to Buy at Canaccord....
View ArticleTop Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AU, BBY, COST, DRWI, JNS, MYGN, NSC, GOLD)
These are some of the top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street firms: AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) Cut to Sell at Goldman Sachs Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY) Cut to...
View ArticleTop Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BZH, BP, CIEN, GLW, EXPE, FFIV, BEN, JNS,...
These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street firms: Beazer Homes (NYSE: BZH) Raised to Buy at UBS. BP plc (NYSE: BP) Reiterated...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (CM, CTB, EIX, FMCN, GT, HD, JNS, LM,...
These are some of this Thursday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (NYSE: CM) Raised to Equal-Weight at Morgan...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AAPL, ACI, ARMH, BP, GOOG, HUM, JNS, LH,...
These are some of this Monday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated Overweight at Piper Jaffray. Arch...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMZN, AMR, BIDU, FSLR, GE, JNS, LULU, MS,...
These are some of this Monday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Reiterated Buy with $198 target at...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AVL, BYD, CAT, COP, DMD, JNS, MCP, TAP,...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Avalon Rare Metals, Inc. (AMEX: AVL) Started as Sector Outperform at...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ADBE, ARG, AGN, AEO, AN, COG, FITB, F, GM,...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) Cut to Hold at S&P Equity...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ATML, CMA, CBRL, DNDN, DV, EDMC, GIS, GFI,...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) Reiterated Buy and $17 target at...
View ArticleThe Week’s Largest Stock Market Losers: GameStop Corp, Monster Worldwide Inc,...
The S&P 500 stocks which lost the most were mostly from the tech sector. Microchip Technology Inc (NASDAQ: MCHP) was down almost 16%. The company cut it earnings guidance which was done to some...
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The Ten Worst Performing S&P 500 Stocks of 2011 (JNS, HCBK, GNW, NFLX, X,...
Although the month of October put up a big gain in the S&P 500 stocks, for the year-to-date S&P stocks have risen just 1.2%. The ten worst performers have all lost more than -49% of their...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (CCL, CHK, LNG, CQP, CREE, EXPE, FTE, GOOG,...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Wednesday morning. Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) Maintained Hold but cut...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALU, AMZN, APOL, MT, T, CY, DK, EBAY,...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday. Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU) Maintained Sell with $2.00 target at S&P....
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Today’s Market Winners and Losers
Stocks opened slightly lower Friday after Chinese trade data yielded disappointing results. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 0.12%, the Nasdaq is down 0.21% and the S&P 500 is down 0.14%....
View ArticleEight Stocks Being Accumulated by Large Holders (CYTR, DVA, HNSN, JNS, ODP,...
There are a number of reasons that insiders and large holders sell shares of public companies. There is really only one reason that insiders and large holders buy shares, and that is because they think...
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Top Analyst Downgrades and Stocks to Sell: BlackBerry, LinkedIn, Renren and More
Investors frequently get to see the analyst upgrades and Buy ratings from Wall Street firms. What investors often do not get to see is when analyst downgrade stocks to sell or to avoid. 24/7 Wall St....
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Bond King Bill Gross Major News: Leaving PIMCO for Janus!
Major news in the world of bond managers is taking place. Janus Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: JNS) has announced that a William H. Gross will be joining the firm. This is the Bond King, Bill Gross of...
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Bill Gross Brings $700 Million Payday for Janus
When you capture the king in chess, the game is over. In the bond market, the game just restarts with some new rules. Friday morning’s announcement from Janus Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: JNS) rewrote the...
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PIMCO Closed-End Funds Thrashed After Gross Departure
It is a rare event that a fund manager’s departure can create such strong waves in a market. Still, when it is the likes of a Bill Gross punching out of his seat at the top bond fund management house...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Baidu, FedEx, Google, Janus, Micron,...
Stocks were weak on Monday and the trend for another 100-point change five days in a row on the Dow Jones Industrial Average looked like it was set to continue. Investors have seen more volatility of...
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More PIMCO Closed-End Funds See Continued Selling Carnage
To say that many of the top closed-end mutual funds managed by PIMCO were being pressured by the departure of Bill Gross to go join Janus Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: JNS) would be a massive...
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Analysts Adjust Estimates for Janus, PIMCO and Bonds
The movement of Janus Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: JNS) shares after Friday’s announcement that bond king Bill Gross would join the firm may or may not have been justified. What may be more difficult to...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Boeing, eBay, Hecla Mining, Janus...
Stocks were soft on Wednesday after weak data in Europe and after an Ebola case was confirmed in the United States. Still, investors have shown over and over that they are eager to buy undervalued and...
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Bill Gross Offers First Investment Outlook at Janus
Bill Gross recently created a massive stir in the bond market and in the financial media when he jumped from PIMCO to Janus Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: JNS). The move has taken place and Gross has...
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The Bill Gross Outlook on 2015
Janus Capital Group, Inc. (NYSE: JNS) released its collective investment outlook for the year ahead, otherwise known as “Straight Talk on 2015.” Investing experts that spoke at this event were Myron...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: ADP, Cigna, First Solar, Garmin, LINN,...
Stocks were staging a major bounce on Wednesday morning, despite a deadly overseas terrorist attack in Paris. After another year of gains, the bull market is nearing six years old. Investors have...
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3 Stocks to Buy as Active Mutual Funds Give Way to ETFs
In the late 1980s and through the 1990s, active mutual funds and their managers dominated in the halcyon era. Managers like Peter Lynch and Bill Miller beat the market benchmarks year after year and...
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Can Bill Gross Really Sense the End of Secular Bull Markets (Outside of Bonds)?
Bill Gross may have a new employer in Janus Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: JNS), but he has kept up with his monthly outlook reporting just like he did for years as the bond king for Pimco. Gross always has...
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4 Stocks to Buy for the Coming Interest Rates Increases
It’s the old adage when it comes to the discussion on interest rates. It’s not a matter of if, but when. There may be a major difference this time. In the past after rates had been slashed and then...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Ambarella, Cisco, Frontier, Marvell,...
Stocks were indicated higher on Wednesday, again on hopes that the silly Greek leadership will finally reach a debt deal. The trend for almost four years now is that investors find myriad reasons to...
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Bill Gross Is Right About the Fed — This Time
Bill Gross, who has been frequently referred to as the Bond King for years now, is out with his monthly outlook. He may be at Janus Capital Group Inc. (NYSE: JNS) now, rather than acting as the fixed...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Boeing, Five Below, Halliburton, Janus...
Stocks were indicated higher on Thursday after the Dow was up almost 300 points on Wednesday. This is only a slight recovery from the dips that we saw earlier this week on both Monday and Tuesday. The...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ATK, AMZN, AMCX, AMGN, AAPL, ADSK, EBAY,...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Friday. Alliant Techsystems Inc. (NYSE: ATK) cut to Market Perform at FBR Capital Markets....
View Article24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — January 25, 2013: Markets Open Higher, S&P...
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning before dipping following the report on new home sales in the U.S. Stocks regained positive momentum during most of the remaining session. In Europe,...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Chesapeake, eBay, Enterprise, Gilead,...
Stocks were indicated marginally lower on Thursday after a post-FOMC rally on Wednesday. The one trend that keeps holding true is that investors buy stocks after every sell-off, something that has been...
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