Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL: Nasdaq) By Argus ($59.47, May 25, 2012) We are upgrading Cracker Barrel Old Country Store to Buy from Hold, and setting a target price of $72.
After H.J. Heinz pared its forecasts on Thursday, Wall Street analysts lost their taste for the ketchup-maker. Though sales in emerging markets are growing at a nice clip, lagging U.S. operations remain a big challenge for Heinz (ticker: ...
The Dow industrials declined as investors weighed better-than-expected U.S. consumer confidence and a report of regional weakness in Spain. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index edged lower, on pace to cap its biggest weekly gain in more ...
RBC Capital Markets With our concerns related to corporate IT (information technology) spending, we're proactively reducing our revenue and earnings expectations for several companies in our industry coverage.
Federal prosecutors and lawyers for five former insurance executives accused of engineering a bogus reinsurance transaction to mask a drop in reserves at American International Group Inc. are in settlement talks, according to a joint court ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks languished between modest gains and losses Friday, with Wall Street largely fixated on Spain, where regional banks are struggling with finances and yields that reflect the government’s borrowing costs ...
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Canadian equities wavered between small gains and losses Friday, poised to finish the week higher, with gold miners and technology stocks providing support, but financials weighing on the market.
European stocks have gotten significantly cheaper than American ones. The Stoxx Europe 600 index trades at 10.4 times projected earnings, versus 13 times for the S&P 500 index.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Tech stocks got a lift on Friday afternoon ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, though the boost did not help Facebook Inc.
Talbots Inc.'s shares slumped Friday as the women's retailer was left looking for a new suitor after Sycamore Partners opted not to pursue a takeover.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — London stocks ended a choppy session on a slightly positive note on Friday, as oil firms and Vodafone Group PLC moved higher.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The controversy over Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering touches on language used in regulatory filings called “risk factors.”
By Corrie Driebusch and Nathalie Tadena Among the companies with shares expected to actively trade in Friday's session are Frontline Ltd. (FRO), VeriFone Systems Inc. (PAY) and Talbots Inc. (TLB).
The 20 top-paid CEOs have more than their multimillion-dollar pay packages in common: They're all men. A roundup of the highest-paid bosses from 2011 in an earlier Wall Street Journal article is a reminder that women are still a rarity in ...
Syngenta AG said Friday it has agreed to pay $105 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by several Midwestern water companies related to its weedkiller atrazine.