RBC

RBC recently conducted its fifth online advertising survey, and it is predicting good times ahead for social media players Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) and Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL)(NASDAQ: GOOG). However, for Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR), the going could be tough as advertisers' interest wanes....

Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: OREX) sole product, the anti-obesity drug Contrave, almost certainly won't get pulled from the market, an analyst said Friday Orexigen shares fell 12 percent Friday after a regulatory official threatened sanctions on the company for prematurely...

Janney commented on February sales for McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) Wednesday and maintained a Neutral rating with an $89 price target. Analyst Mark Kalinowski suspected that U.S. comp sales for McDonald's slowed during February as sales in the chain burger sector deteriorated...

Priceline Group Inc (NASDAQ: PCLN) may miss Wall Street's expectations when it posts fourth-quarter results on February 19, an analyst said Monday. RBC's Mark S. Mahaney, who believes foreign exchange woes could cause the online travel company to miss the current consensus view, cut his...

City National Corp (NYSE: CYN) on Thursday said that it has agreed to sell itself to Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE: RY) for $5.4 billion, or $93.80 per share. Shares of City National closed on Wednesday at $74.57 and held a market cap of $4.11 billion. Shareholders of California-based City...

XenoPort, Inc. (NASDAQ: XNPT) soared following comments from RBC’s Michael Yee who called it his “under the radar play” on CNBC. RBC's Michael Yee says Xenoport is his under the radar play for 2015 $XNPT — CNBC's Fast Money (@CNBCFastMoney) December 29, 2014 The...

RBC claims Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) may sell 20 million watches in one year, according to Bloomberg. The firm reiterated its Outperform rating and raised it price target from $115 to $120. RBC analyst Amit Daryanani felt that a conservative estimate may add approximately $6.5 billion in annual...

First Niagara Financial Group Inc. (NASDAQ: FNFG) $800 million third-quarter write-down related to its acquisition spree of the past five years sent investors headed for the exits. The Buffalo-based bank holding company's shares fell slightly on Monday after a steep decline Friday. In the...

CF Industries Holdings, Inc.'s (NYSE: CF) steady demand for its nitrogen fertilizer along with low and stable prices for natural gas needed for its manufacture prompted an analyst to upgrade the company's shares Tuesday. The Deerfield, Illinois, company also benefits from prices...

Mosaic Co's (NYSE: MOS) flat demand for its fertilizer coupled with rising costs for production materials resulted in at least one analyst's downgrade Tuesday. The Plymouth, Minnesota, phosphate mining and production company is paying more for the ammonia and sulfur required to covert...

Netflix, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: NFLX) international growth potential coupled with a lack of investor enthusiasm got a good review from an analyst Tuesday. Netflix, Inc., poised for imminent launch in France and Germany, has the highest short interest and lowest Buy ranking among large-cap U.S....

Boeing (NYSE: BA) shares trended down Wednesday as investors looked beyond its second-quarter earnings beat to a $450 million charge for developing a military refueling aircraft. “It's worrying that Boeing took a charge of this magnitude this early in a long-term project," RBC...

EMC Corp (NYSE: EMC) is in the news Monday as Elliot Management Corp. is pushing to have the data firm spinoff its VMWare (NYSE: VMW) computer-server software division. Elliot Management owns nearly 80 percent of VMWare. Analysts covering EMC agree a spinoff would not be beneficial to EMC....