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As DJIA Heads to 14,590 in 2013, Five Undervalued and Five Overvalued Leaders (MSFT, UNH, AA, GE, KO, BAC, HPQ, JNJ, TRV, XOM, VZ)

Posted: January 7, 2013 at 8:46 am

24/7 Wall St. has identified its 2013 peak target for the Dow Jones Industrial Average of 14,590, which would translate to gains of more than 11.3% for investors. What is ...
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U.S. Stock Futures Jump on Fiscal Cliff Deal

Posted: January 2, 2013 at 8:42 am

Last night’s passage of a deal on the fiscal cliff in the U.S. House of Representatives has lit a fire under stock futures this morning. The DJIA is up more ...
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DJIA 2013: Best Targets Imply More Than 11% Gain to 14,590 (AA, BAC, CVX, GE, HD, HPQ, INTC, JPM, MMM, UTX, KO, MCD, MRK, PFE, MSFT, PG, T, VZ, UNH, WMT, XOM)

Posted: January 2, 2013 at 6:22 am

As each new year arrives, 24/7 Wall St. looks at each of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average components and assigns a forward value for the Dow based on a ...
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Fiscal Cliff Worries Year-End Markets

Posted: December 28, 2012 at 7:00 am

Only a few days remain for the U.S. markets to sell off because of fiscal cliff worries. There are actually just two. Volume will be light because so many traders ...
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Dell Is Dropped from the S&P 100

Posted: December 21, 2012 at 6:47 am

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has been kicked out of the S&P 100. The PC company has struggled to remain relevant, and successful, for years. Perhaps Standard & Poor's finally has acknowledged that ...
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What Should Facebook Replace Infosys in Nasdaq 100?

Posted: December 5, 2012 at 6:16 am

The management at Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) must have made a mistake. The trading index company decided to replace highly successful India outsource firm Infosys Ltd. (NASDAQ: INFY) (which is ...
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S&P Sees Better, but Still Weak, Q3 Earnings

Posted: November 12, 2012 at 2:13 pm

With 451 of the companies included in the S&P 500 index having reported quarterly earnings already, Standard & Poor’s Capital IQ unit reports that index growth is up 2.3% compared ...
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25 Years After The 1987 Crash, How Different The DJIA Is (AA, AXP, BA, KO, DD, XOM, GE, IBM, MMM, MCD, MRK, PG, UTX, T)

Posted: October 19, 2012 at 11:30 am

It was twenty-five years ago today that the 1987 stock market crash came. Fortunes were lost on that day, but fortunes were also made in the aftermath. The NYSE was ...
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PetSmart Joins S&P 500

Posted: October 2, 2012 at 8:38 am

S&P Dow Jones has announced that it will replace oil and gas company Sunoco Inc. (NYSE: SUN) on the S&P 500 Index with specialty retailer PetSmart Inc. (NASDAQ: PETM) after ...
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Risk Assets Set for a Pullback?

Posted: September 24, 2012 at 12:40 pm

After hitting annual highs last week, the three major U.S. stock indexes could be in for a fall. Not a stumble, but a fall. In an email, Stanley J.G. Crouch, ...
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Facebook Added to NASDAQ Q-50, Prelude to NASDAQ-100 Index Addition (FB, CNQR, GRPN, ONXX, RGLD, WDC, MELI, SINA)

Posted: September 17, 2012 at 8:20 am

The NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. (NASDAQ: NDAQ) has announced its changes in the quarterly reranking of the NASDAQ Q-50 Index, and the effects will take place prior to market open ...
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BofA Calls S&P 500 at 1,600 in 2013, but S&P Fully Valued for 2012

Posted: September 14, 2012 at 10:00 am

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is getting more bullish for its 2013 S&P 500 market outlook. The new target is 1,600. The problem is that the macroeconomic call is saying ...
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Nasdaq Still 2,000 Points Below Record

Posted: September 7, 2012 at 6:30 am

The Nasdaq Composite Index reached an intraday high of 5,132.52 on March 10, 2000, and closed an at all-time high of 5,048.62 the same day. The close yesterday was almost 2,000 ...
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Europe Markets Higher After Asia Flat

Posted: September 3, 2012 at 7:14 am

Europe markets opened up slightly up after most Asia markets closed higher by below 1%. The FTSE rose .63% to 5,747. Miner Rio Tinto (NYSE: RTP) was up over 2% as was ...
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Sears Ousted from S&P 500

Posted: August 29, 2012 at 5:52 pm

Troubled retailer Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD), which was formed by a 2005 merger of Sears and Kmart, was thrown out of the S&P 500 as of  September 4. It will be replaced by ...
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