thinkstockHere are today’s five biggest gaining stocks at closing: Superconductor Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: SCON) is up 134.9% at $5.45. MEMSIC Inc. (NASDAQ: MEMS) is up 50.8% at $4.07. Ceasars Entertainment Corp. (NASDAQ: CZR) is…
ThinkstockIs it possible that the great big bank stock rally is already done? Shortly before the closing bell on Tuesday came words of warning from Fitch Ratings that the U.S. banking sector’s improved results…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning despite low flash PMI readings from the eurozone. Germany’s manufacturing PMI reading was especially notable, falling to 47.9 from 49, and the country’s services PMI fell as…
ThinkstockOne of the main arguments in favor of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline is the safety of pipeline transportation when compared with crude transport by rail or truck. The U.S. Pipelines and Hazardous Materials…
ThinkstockFirst Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) said today that it has sold its Campo Verde solar energy project to a subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO) and Turner Renewable Energy. The sale price was not…
thinkstockAs with any earnings season, the results that have come in so far for the first quarter of this year have been mixed. There have been some winners and some losers, and with one…
ThinkstockHack attacks continue with the DJIA and S&P 500 Index suddenly losing all of their gains on the day only to briefly recover. The result came from a hack of the AP Twitter feed,…
Jon OggStocks have enjoyed a serious bull market, and we still have the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average both up by double digits so far in 2013. As this is…
ThinkstockSenator Max Baucus from Montana has chosen to retire from the U.S. Senate and will not run for election again in 2014. This matters as Baucus is one of the top Democratic senators who…
Another weak reading was issued from yet another regional Federal Reserve Bank. The Richmond Fed reading fell sharply to -6 in April, versus a reading of 3 in March. Bloomberg had a consensus reading set…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Census Bureau this morning released data on new single-family home sales for March. Sales rose 1.5% month-over-month, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 417,000, from an upwardly revised February sales figure…
ThinkstockRackspace Hosting Inc. (NYSE: RAX) has been an incredible story of growth from remote storage. Now that the share price of Rackspace has come back down to earth, we wanted to take a look…
ThinkstockThe U.S. flash manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) was released for April by the group Markit on Tuesday morning. The bad news is that the numbers were lower, but the good news is that growth,…
ThinkstockGermany is supposed to be the cement that makes up the foundation of the euro. Maybe France is the mortar that holds together the bricks. So how stable is the euro when all the…
ThinkstockThe Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) reported this morning that U.S. home prices rose 0.7% month-over-month in February, following the January housing price index gain of 0.6%. For the 12-month period ending in February…