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Shares of Safeway (NYSE:SWY) rallied 10% Thursday morning after the supermarket chain revealed a lucrative deal worth a hefty $5.7 billion to unload its profitable Canadian operations to Sobeys.The price tag on the massive asset sale essentially matches Safeway's entire market capitalization of about $5.6 billion as of Wednesday's close.In the wake of the surprise transaction, analysts on Wall Street were mixed on whether the decision to exit Canada will ultimately be a positive for the grocery-store chain, especially after having already spun off its gift-card unit Blackhawk.J.P. Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) raised its price target on Safeway to $28 from $26, while Guggenheim upped its target to $30 from $23. Both brokerages kept a "neutral" rating on the stock.Other analysts were more cautious, with Citigroup (NYSE:C) downgrading Safeway to "neutral" from "buy.""We have felt for some time that any steps by Safeway to monetize Blackhawk and the Canadian businesses would serve to expose the...
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Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Shawn Matthews weighs in on the Cyprus’ banks plan to take money from depositors, and how that will affect the global economy.
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Tech stocks maintained their strong gains by Tuesday's closing bell, fueled by a broad market surge that lifted the Dow to a new high, as well as notable pickups by ...
Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Shawn Matthews on the outlook for equities.
Tech stocks jumped on Tuesday morning, led by a strong market upswing that put the Dow to a new all-time high, as well as a strong jump by Qualcomm Inc. after the ma...
Tech stocks jumped in early trades on Tuesday, led by an upswing in the broad market and a strong jump at Qualcomm Inc. after the maker of chipsets for wireless devi...
Yahoo Inc. was upgraded to buy from hold on Tuesday by analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald, who said they believe the firm has stabilized its underlying operations. Additi...
Haverford Trust CIO Hank Smith and Cantor Fitzgerald head of U.S. equities Bill Nichols on the outlook for the markets.
U.S. investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald is poised to buy London-based stockbroker Seymour Pierce, the Financial Times reported Wednesday on its website, citing unname...
Cantor Fitzgerald Managing Director Youssef Squali on the outlook for Google.
Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Shawn Matthews on the state of the markets.
Peter S. Cohan & Associates President Peter Cohan and Cantor Fitzgerald Managing Director Youssef Squali debate whether the Tumblr acquisition was a good or bad move for Yahoo.
Cantor Fitzgerald ’s Peter Cecchini on the outlook for the markets and economy.
Shares of LinkedIn (NASDAQ:LNKD) slumped more than 12% Friday as investors continued to digest its disappointing outlook despite much better-than-expected first-quar...
Yelp Inc.'s (YELP) surging revenue growth has piqued investors' interest, setting an all-time high for shares of a company that has yet to report an outright profit....
Shares of Netflix Inc. surged 24% in premarket trading on Tuesday after the company and posted better-than-expected gains in its streaming-subscriber base a day prio...
Cantor Fitzgerald U.S. Equity Trading’s William Nichols and Cambria Investment Management CIO Mebane Faber on the outlook for the markets.
