UPDATE 2-S&amp;P says may upgrade Nextel to investment grade
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Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s on Wednesday said it may upgrade Nextel Communications Inc.&#39;s (NXTL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) corporate credit rating to investment-grade status, citing earnings and revenue growth and debt reductions.
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What will Cingular Wireless get after it pays $41 billion in cash to acquire AT&amp;T Wireless later this year? The answer became clearer yesterday after AT&amp;T Wireless reported third-quarter financial results
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com September 13, 2004, 1:28 PM PT. With the economy slowly turning up, upgrading hardware has been on businesses radar in the past 12 months as their number two priority.
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I view this period of consolidation, following four years of a bull market, as the transition phase to the next stage of the bull market. I expect the S&P 500 to reach all-time highs and to end 2008 somewhere around 1650. If Wall Street goes my way later next year, then I think the FTSE 100, whose large international blue chips have more to do with the global economy than the UK, could be up around 7200 by year-end.
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Studies have shown that broker upgrades lead to short-term  outperformance. Stocks recently upgraded by brokerage analysts include Wal-Mart  (NYSE: WMT), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL), Royal Caribbean  (NYSE: RCL) and United Health Services (NYSE: UHS).
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Merrill Lynch reiterated a &quot;buy&quot; rating on Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people ) and raised the target price to $27 from $23.50.
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Plus: Toshiba earnings dip, chip outlook dims...Verizon boosted by wireless, fiber...Nintendo outlook positive.
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Investor's Business Daily - Q2 prices rose 3.2% vs. a year ago, the slowest rise in a decade, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight said. Price gains could turn into declines, as they have in other measures, and are taking a toll on broader economic growth. The S&amp;P/Case-Shiller index on Tue. showed Q2 home prices down 3.2% vs. a year earlier. OFHEO prices don&#39;t include homes with jumbo or subprime loans, two of the more vulnerable segments of the mortgage market. Weakness is expected to continue into &#39;08.
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com September 21, 2004, 10:08 AM PT. With the economy slowly turning up, upgrading hardware has been on businesses radar in the past 12 months as their number two priority.
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Is it ever OK to average up on a stock?
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(InfoWorld) - Upcoming products and transitions in leadership buffeted shares of Advanced Micro Devices, Apple, and Yahoo this week. Investors have soured on AMD this year as IntelÂ has advanced its own multicore chip technology. The postponement of volume production of AMD's Barcelona quad-core Opteron server chip to the third quarter has not helped. But AMD got a vote of confidence Thursday when brokerage Stifel Nicolaus raised its rating to "buy" from "neutral." The brokerage said thatÂ bad newsÂ has already done whatever damage it could to company shares. On the positive side, the brokerage noted that the last half of the year includes a traditionally strong selling season and that the chip market has stabilized. In response, AMD shares jumped by $1.12 Thursday, to close at $14.77. Apple shares, meanwhile, jumped $4.59 to close at $125.09 Monday on news of improved features for the much-anticipated all-in-one iPhone mobile device. Apple said that the handset will have eight hours of talk time andÂ six hours of Internet use, andÂ that its screen will be glass rather than plastic. One criticism of the iPod screen is that it is prone to scratching. The iPhone's glass display is expected to be better. The company's share price fell somewhat during the week but is still historically high for the company. Despite great anticipation for the product, due out June 29, and recent surveys showing that consumer interest is high despite the high price (about $500), analysts have issued caveats. "This phone is more closely watched than any other cell phone, ever. That means any glitch will be covered," said frequently quoted Jeff Kagan, in an e-mail. "This is the biggest job ever in the history of the cell phone business." A big transition, though not to a new product, also moved Yahoo shares. On Monday the company announced thatÂ Terry Semel ended his six-year tenureÂ as chief executive officer and that company co-founder Jerry Yang will take over. Semel had been a lightning rod for criticism of the company. Though Yahoo is widely acknowledged to have some of the best services on the Internet and was an early leader in recognizing the importance of bringing Web 2.0 interactive features into its fold, it has been unable to keep up with Google in the most important revenue generator on the Web: search engine advertising. The news of Semel's departure was greeted with enthusiasm. Yahoo shares rose $0.81 to close at $28.12 on the news Monday. But the share price subsequently drifted down, despite getting a temporary boost from rumors that News Corp. would take a share in Yahoo in return for merging the MySpace service with the company. Yang's appointment leaves more questions than answers. It's not clear what new leadership he can bring to the company, which is much bigger and more complex than years ago and is in the middle of various transition efforts. Early results from its new search advertising platform, Panama, are good, but the jury is out on efforts to boost display advertising.
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com September 14, 2004, 3:25 PM PT. With the economy slowly turning up, upgrading hardware has been on businesses radar in the past 12 months as their number two priority.
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com October 8, 2004, 10:52 AM PT. With the economy slowly turning up, upgrading hardware has been on businesses radar in the past 12 months as their number two priority.
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Great expectations have lifted the company's shares -- but is it time to cash out?
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Deutsche Bank Securities reiterated a &quot;hold&quot; rating and $30 target price on Nextel Communications (nasdaq: NXTL - news - people ), saying the Federal Communications Commission&#39;s decision to grant additional credits for Nextel spectrum &quot;is an unambiguous
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Qwest Communications International Inc.  on Wednesday said it will buy back up to $2 billion worth of its stock, but disappointment over a lack of a dividend announcement weighed on the phone company's stock after the bell.
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INTERNATIONAL rating agency, Standard and Poor&#39;s (S&amp;P) has upgraded India&#39;s `BB&#39; long-term foreign currency rating outlook to &quot;positive&quot; from stable.