Jefferies Shows How to Profit from Gold
ThinkstockFor most of the past decade, gold was the place to be. A disastrous housing market collapse, terror attacks in the United States and a host of additional geopolitical issues pushed the price up…
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Newest first · Page 58Mosaic Company Earnings Weak, Look to Get Weaker
thinkstock The Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) reported third-quarter 2013 results before markets opened Tuesday morning. The fertilizer maker reported diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.29 on revenues of $1.9 billion. In the same…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Stocks to Buy: BlackBerry, SunEdison, MGIC and More
Stocks are challenging new all-time highs each week now, and investors have to be considering which stocks to buy and which ones to sell. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many fresh research reports and notes…
Top Analyst Downgrades and Stocks to Sell: BlackBerry, Kellogg, Rovi and More
Jon OggStocks are challenging all-time highs and investors have to wonder which stocks are set to keep rising and which ones to sell. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many fresh research calls each morning, on…
UBS Adds Six Top Alpha Preference List Stocks to Buy for 2014
The Alpha Preference list of stocks to buy at UBS is comprised of companies that are the most preferred stocks to buy within the 41 major sectors that the firm covers. These are stocks…
AOL Earnings Show Surprising Strength Below Headline Numbers
courtesy of AOL, IncAOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) reported third-quarter 2013 results before markets opened Tuesday morning. The online media and brand company posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.55 on revenues of…
China Looks to Add 10 Million Jobs a Year
ThinkstockAhead of a key meeting of the Communist Party, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has stated that the nation’s economy must create 10 million jobs per year, and sustained growth of at least 7.2% will…
Eight Hot Housing Markets That Are Cooling Down
ThinkstockThe national housing market is by most measures recovering at a healthy clip. Home prices in some of the hardest-hit markets — places like Reno, Nev., and Phoenix, Ariz. — were up by more…
Kmart to Open Early on Thanksgiving
ThinkstockKmart and Sears, the two major divisions of Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) will join the group of large retailers that hope to move the start of the holiday season closer and closer to…
Spain’s Unemployment Problem Gets Worse
ThinkstockSpain’s Ministry of Employment and Social Security reported that in October its economy lost 87,028 jobs and the total number of unemployed in the southern European nation rose to 4,811,383. Summer is over, and…
Tesla Earnings Ahead of Tesla Model X Launch
Courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) has a nice bookend to its upcoming earnings, which are likely to be spectacular. The electric car company, or its CEO Elon Musk, leaked that the…
What’s So Hot about Twitter?
courtesy of TwitterNow that Twitter Inc. has raised its initial public offering (IPO) price range from a prior spread of $17 to $20 to a new range of $23 to $25 there remain plenty…
Monday Closing Bell: Markets Close Higher on Last-Minute Surge
November 4, 2013: U.S. markets opened higher Friday morning and took a dip before recovering beginning about noon. There was little data out today and earnings were also relatively scarce. European markets closed mostly…
More Value Being Found in Coal Leaders
ThinkstockIf you paid attention to the first “warning” that coal was becoming safe again, then you have probably had a good couple of weeks in the stock market. The reality is that coal is…
Penn National Gaming’s Casino REIT Spin-off Completed
ThinkstockPenn National Gaming Inc. (NASDAQ: PENN) completed on Monday the spin-off of its real-estate holdings into a new REIT, Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc. (G&LP) (NASDAQ: GLPI). The spin-off was first announced a year…