Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) announced Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire Benchmark Asset Management Co., the largest provider of index-tracking funds in India, as the firm looks to expand in the third largest market in Asia. At the end of the year, Goldman did not oversee any assets in India, according to a report from Bloomberg citin...

UPGRADES Deutsche Bank lifts AFLAC (NYSE: AFL) from Hold to Buy with a $60 price target. Click Here for more color. Stifel Nicolaus ups Polypore International (NYSE: PPO) from Hold to Buy. Canaccord Genuity upgrades Carrizo Oil & Gas (Nasdaq: CRZO) from Hold to Buy, with a price target of $41. Click Here for more color. Stifel Nicolaus raises...

ICO Global (Nasdaq: ICOG) 40.1% HIGHER; the company announced that it and Dish Network (Nasdaq: DISH) have agreed to an implementation pact in which ICO will sell certain assets to Dish for $324.5 million. Subaye (Nasdaq: SBAY) 31.4% LOWER; CFO James Crane announced that he will resign in order to pursue other interests. Kid Brands, Inc. (NYSE: KID...

This report is an intraday check of some of the more notable stocks that have hit a 52-week high or low so far today. 52-Week High: Impax Laboratories Inc. (Nasdaq: IPXL) high of $25.47. Impax reported statistically significant, positive, top-line results of the ADVANCE-Parkinson’s Disease Phase III clinical study of the safety and efficacy of ...

The Trading Radar highlights key earnings and economic announcements for tomorrow’s trading session: Before The Market Opens Economics: 7:00am EDT MBA Mortgage Index - no Street consensus 8:30am EDT Housing Starts - Street sees 575K Building Permits - Street sees 573K PPI - Street sees 0.6% Core PPI - Street sees 0.2% Current Account Balanc...

CoreLogic (NYSE: CLGX) announces the $32 million acquisition of the remaining Dorado Network Systems Corp. outstanding shares that it does not already own. CoreLogic gains patented cloud computing-based technology that extends and accelerates the embedding of CoreLogic decision management applications into client operating environments. CoreLogic ...

UPGRADES Goldman Sachs upgraded Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) from Neutral to Buy and raised their price target from $210 to $300. Click Here for more color. Cowen upgrades Impax Laboratories (Nasdaq: IPXL) from Neutral to Outperform. Goldman Sachs upgraded ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) from Neutral to Buy and raised their price target from $82 to $102. Click ...

Gainers Claymore/MAC Global Solar Index (NYSE: TAN) up 5.79% to $8.22. Solars surging for the second day on increasing concerns about the future for nuclear power following malfunctions in Japan following the massive earthquake that struck the island nation late last week, and subsequent fallout afterward. iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures...

London’s FTSE 100 and Paris’ CAC 40 hold steady, while the Xetra Dax 30 in Frankfurt recovers more strongly, as traders take heart from a strong rebound in Tokyo ...

US-listed stocks fall for the third consecutive session as worries over escalating tensions in Bahrain overwhelm any positive sentiment from a bounce in Asian equities ...