Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe DJIA winning streak continues, S&P 500 does not… The S&P 500 Index might have closed down slightly with a 3.74 drop breaking its 7 day winning streak, but the Dow…
thinkstockHere are today’s five biggest gaining stocks at closing: Crossroads Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CRDS) is up 32.1% at $3.85. OCZ Technology Group Inc. (NASDAQ: OCZ) is up 21.2% at $1.60. CKX Lands Inc. (NYSEMKT:…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning but never managed to hold a position in positive territory. Despite a significant drop in U.K. industrial production in February, the country’s trade deficit was narrow than…
ThinkstockAdvanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) is having more than a hard time turning around. The PC business is drying up according to many media reports and even Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has been…
flickr / gsfcRadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) has been a very well telegraphed retail implosion. If you think that Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been a wrecking ball to Best Buy Co. (NYSE: BBY), you…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) today released its March version of the Short-Term Energy Outlook. The agency has lowered its forecast for the price of crude and retained its earlier forecast on the…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe number of U.S. workers laid off or fired in January fell to a 12-year low of 1.51 million according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor.…
ThinkstockLow-priced stocks can often have active volume already, and quite often due to perhaps nothing more than their low share price when news is announced. 24/7 Wall St. already tracked the active short interest…
courtesy of MicrosoftThe estimated worldwide market for tablets this year has been pushed up by about 10%, from a previous estimate of 172.4 million units to 190 million units. By the end of 2017,…
ThinkstockBy 2017, more than 1 billion people around the world will be using mobile banking services. That’s the number that will be using their mobile phone handsets. Nearly 200 million users will be using…
Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) is out with its so-called RIC-Report for its clients. There is good news for equity investors, but not such good news for investors in municipal bonds, corporate credit,…
ThinkstockForget national consumer confidence figures for a moment. The Conference Board has just announced that when it releases its monthly Consumer Confidence Index you are no longer just going to see the national figure.…
ThinkstockShares of MetroPCS Communications Inc. (NYSE: PCS) jumped to a 52-week high of $14.51 the day last October when the company announced its proposed merger with T-Mobile USA, which is owned by Deutsche Telekom…
ThinkstockIf something is too good to last, it won’t. That could be the story among the publicly traded companies we are watching in the 3D printing business. Growth began to pick up smartly in…
Short sellers have continued to by and large increase their short-sale bets against the quality high-yield dividend stocks. The price gains must lead short sellers to believe that the yields are getting too low…