ThinkstockAECOM Technology Corp. (NYSE: ACM) is set for new highs. For those of you who follow the companies that will win from the inevitable yet elusive infrastructure rebuilding, AECOM is one you must watch.…
Outerwall Inc.When Coinstar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSTR) reported earnings last night, the owner of the Redbox DVD-rental machines beat earnings estimates by 27%, but net income was down by the same amount for the quarter.…
thinkstockWe have warned investors repeatedly in 2011 and 2012 that the pressure on the credit ratings in Europe likely will continue. That may be true, but as over the past six weeks we have…
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThese are Friday’s market winners and losers. Biggest Winners Shares of LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD) are up 19.01% to $147.67, on trading volume of 5.1 million shares. The company reported…
ThinkstockPipelines used to be things that were just built without blinking. It is said that there are enough pipelines now in the US to encircle the Earth 25 times with enough left over to…
ThinkstockThere is a case of good news and bad news in a survey of chief financial officers today, and it has what should likely be an economic overhang for 2013. The good news is that…
ThinkstockInvesting in biotech or biopharmaceutical stocks can prove to be a very daunting task. Many of the stocks have limited pipelines or their very survival depends on a single binary event that may require…
ThinkstockIn the energy sector, 2012 was the year of the refiner. Stock prices appreciated at least 80% for most of them, while the supermajor integrated companies were only able to tally gains in the…
ThinkstockThe December trade balance, known by the rest of us as the trade deficit, came in at -$38.54 billion. While this is still a huge number on the surface, this is the lowest number…
ThinkstockOncolytics Biotech Inc. (NASDAQ: ONCY) just reasserted its position on the map again. The company has announced test results showing tumor shrinkage data from its U.S. Phase II clinical trial in patients with squamous…
courtesy of McDonald'sJanuary same-store sales continued to slide at McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD), falling by 1.9% globally during the month. U.S. sales were up 0.9%, but sales in Europe fell 2.1% and sales in…
When the subprime crisis caused a complete meltdown in the housing market, many homeowners in properties they simply could not afford were forced to move into apartments. This provided a financial tailwind for the…
ThinkstockThere are a variety of ways to invest in precious metals. Buying gold or silver bars and coins is one, exchange traded products (ETFs) are another, and a third is investing in mining stocks.…
Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU) raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley and reiterated Hold at Argus.…
The markets may no longer be in a straight line higher, but 2013 is off to a great start. After taking a look at various Dow Jones Industrial Average components and after taking a…