Jon OggStocks have pulled back for four days in a row now, and investors and traders alike are looking at which stocks they ought to buy, sell or avoid. 24/7 Wall St. reviews literally…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the short interest in the following North American Solar companies as of September 13: Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ), First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR), GT Advanced Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: GTAT), SunEdison…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of September 13 in the following semiconductor leaders: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU), SanDisk Corp.…
ThinkstockThe Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) released its weekly report on mortgage applications Wednesday morning, noting an increase of 5.5% in the group’s seasonally adjusted composite index, following a rise of 11.2% for the previous…
StockCharts.comLike clockwork, every time the American stock market makes new highs, some people insist it cannot go higher. A subset of those believe the market will crash. Others even believe it will reset like…
ThinkstockAmazon.com Inc.’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) new Kindle Fire HDX has been described variously as a better tablet than the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPad, as an evolution of the earlier Kindle with upgraded screen resolution…
September 24, 2013: U.S. markets opened slightly higher on Tuesday but a weak report on consumer confidence pushed equities down to their daily lows. Stocks recovered though as the earlier release of the Case-Shiller house…
ThinkstockFrench officials revealed on Tuesday that $2 million in gold bars disappeared from an Air France passenger plane after the gold had been loaded on the plane for a flight to Zurich. The gold…
ThinkstockCan you imagine winning the lottery only to find yourself in dire financial straits within a few years? It happens, and the Courthouse News Service has just one more reminder about why lottery winners…
thinkstockBob Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS), told an audience at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference on Tuesday morning that cable providers and telecom carriers may have to get used to…
ThinkstockCredit Suisse has initiated research coverage on the so-called contract services organizations, or CROs. The firm’s Jeffrey Bailin started the sector with a Market Weight rating, but the reality is that three of the…
ThinkstockOver the past five days, shares of three companies focused on rare earth mineral production have climbed more than 10% while the S&P 500 has managed to stay barely better than flat. Shares of…
courtesy of RiteAidRite Aid Corp. (NYSE: RAD) has had one amazing recovery in its turnaround. There is an old-school $5.00 share price mark that many mutual funds and institutional investors (as well as margin…
Courtesy of BlackBerryProspective buyers have not exactly been lining up to challenge the $9 per share offer to take smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) private. The offer, from Fairfax Financial Holdings, which owns…
ThinkstockSolarCity Corp. (NASDAQ: SCTY) has seen its shares gyrate with the markets, but a new pact signed this week could offer the company another 230,000 or some homes to go after. While we have…