ThinkstockIn a report out this week, the Goldman Sachs options research team listed its top 25 tactical trades for earning season. While the report includes many names, the trick is to identify the best…
A new Credit Suisse report tracked the most widely owned stocks by mid-cap funds. We cherry-picked the technology names, as many on Wall Street contend that the sector can still outperform for the rest…
ThinkstockThe story for gold is firming, and that is also for the gold miners. Sterne Agee’s metals and mining analysts have a report out on Thursday defending gold and the miners, on a day…
Over the next 20 years to 2033, Boeing expects the commercial market for jet aircraft to total $5.2 trillion. The world's airlines will acquire a total of more than 22,000 new planes during that…
ThinkstockRetailers are announcing June U.S. same-store sales figures Thursday. Research firm Retail Metrics projected an overall gain of 4.9% year-over-year, marking the largest monthly gain since January 2013. After the weather-related sales weakness in…
A new research report from UBS points out that that U.S wireless competition remained very intense in the second quarter. UBS has cut through the clutter to find the stocks still attractive at these…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims. Frankly, the market already had a stellar unemployment and payrolls report last week, and this data was covering the Fourth…
The Merrill Lynch growth picks list is crowded with solid names that have outstanding earnings projections for the coming years. Here are 10 growth stocks to buy for the rest of 2014.
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street firms for Thursday, July 10, 2014. They include American Express, CIT, Discover, FedEx, and UnitedHealth.
Family Dollar Stores reported mixed third-quarter fiscal 2014 results before markets opened Thursday morning. Shares were down fractionally in premarket trading.
ThinkstockFollowing the July 1 free agency of several superstar players, the NBA offseason has already been filled with enormous speculation as to which teams will likely land LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Kevin Love and…
ThinkstockWhile the nation’s unemployment rate dipped to 6.1% in June, which was heralded as substantial progress, the jobless rate in several of cities in California is double, or even triple, this national number. Because…
In its recently released Environmental Responsibility Report, Apple reported it had reduced overall energy consumption by 58% since 2008. And Apple believes it can do even better.
Courtesy Volkswagen AGVolkswagen management has admitted that its U.S. operations are troubled and that the market is essential to its progress to become the number one car company in the world. To put the…
Global military spending continued to decline last year. Although arms expenditure has actually increased in much of the world, military spending in the United States — which still accounted for 37% of total global…