Short sellers are continuing to keep their bets against many of the top defensive high-yield dividend stocks. Increased volatility in June and rising interest rates are obviously making short sellers get aggressive in some…
thinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today reported the U.S. natural gas stocks increased by 82 billion cubic feet last week, within the range for an expected build of between 80 billion and 84…
Jon OggShort sellers might have a hard time if they are just trying to say that the stock market is going down. Stocks keep rising again. But that is not true in all sectors,…
ThinkstockAfter a painful three years of negotiations and recriminations, the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the European Commission (EC) have agreed on a set of policies regulating derivatives trading. The deal has…
ThinkstockDo you want to live, or operate a business, in a state that is good for business or bad for business? It turns outs that the answer may depend on your politics. When elections…
We have tracked the key short interest changes as of June 28 in the following semiconductor leaders: Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC), Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD), Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU), SanDisk Corp.…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the short interest in the following North American Solar companies as of June 28: Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ), First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR), GT Advanced Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: GTAT), SunEdison…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims for the past week. The first caveat is that this was a holiday week for the 4th of July, and this…
ThinkstockThe migration of data, video, music and other information to the cloud for safe storage and retrieval is becoming ubiquitous. While the process was slow and more difficult at first, it is now becoming…
ThinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of June 28 in the following 3D printer and services companies: 3D Systems Inc. (NYSE: DDD), Stratasys Ltd. (NASDAQ: SSYS), The ExOne Co. (NASDAQ: XONE)…
These are the top analyst downgrades, cautious research notes and stocks to sell from Wall Street for Thursday, July 11, 2013. They include Wynn Resorts, Avago Technologies, Transocean and Lululemon.
ThinkstockRetailers are announcing June same-store sales figures today. Research firm Retail Metrics projected an overall gain of 3.9% year-over-year, compared with a 3.5% gain in May and a 2.8% gain in April. Retail sales…
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ThinkstockThe biggest concern to investors in master limited partnerships (MLPs) has been rising interest rates. The MLP analysts at Oppenheimer point out that in four out of the past five times interest rates have…
thinkstockWe have tracked the key short interest changes as of June 28 in the following large cap stock market shares: General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE), Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:…