People’s United Financial Inc., Home Bancshares Inc. and BancorpSouth Inc. may be among leading consolidators in the banking industry and could become some of the best performing stocks in the business during a recovery, analysts at Sandler O’Neill & Partners said on Friday.
A Bear Stearns analyst upgraded Arbitron Inc. Friday, citing anticipated long-term growth prospects for the media marketing and research company's new Portable People Meter.
A Dutch political cartoonist was arrested this week on suspicion of insulting people because of their race or religion through his work, authorities said Friday.
