More than once over the past two years, the 24/7 Wall St. team has tried to identify opportunistic times to effectively short the Treasury bond market. If the horrible reaction to Thursday’s 30-year Treasury…
U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationThe chance that an El Niño weather pattern will form in the Northern Hemisphere this summer has risen to 65%, according to forecasters at the National Weather Service’s Climate…
These are the top Wall Street analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Friday, May 9, 2014. They include Apple, GE, Molycorp, Occidental Petroleum, Teradata and Twitter.
In a new research note out from UBS, the technology team has identified five former tech names that have been absolutely destroyed in the sell off and could be ready for a trading bounce.
Wikimedia Commons (Stuart Seeger)Frequent travelers are frequently frustrated by their inability to book a reward seat because the flight they want to take has no more reward seats available — if it ever had…
Stratasys reported first-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Friday morning. The 3D printer maker did not post a blow-out quarter, only a decent one. Shares were down in premarket trading.
Just as Wall Street is cooling to the prospects of Tesla Motors, the electric car company faces the likelihood that it will need to fight one more state for the right to sell its…
RadioShack had planned to close 1,100 stores. Lenders including GE Capital blocked the plan and forced the company to cut back the number to 200. Its stock may well trade for pennies very soon.
ThinkstockBeing publicly traded allows companies to fund expansions, compensate employees and bring attention to their products and services. It also places obligations on companies to be transparent, produce consistent returns and serve a broader…
courtesy of Radio ShackRadioShack Corp. (NYSE: RSH) has backed away from plans, announced in March, to close 1,100 stores. Two of the retailers’ large creditors refused to support the plan. The cutbacks will be…
thinkstockMay 8, 2014: Markets opened lower on Thursday and posted solid gains on a good report on new claims for jobless benefits. Momentum stocks lost their get-up-and-go in the afternoon, though, and early gains…
Dendreon is getting crushed, and the share price is down to levels not seen in a decade. The company's reported Provenge sales were again unimpressive. It feels like investor interest has died.
While the broad market is still within striking distance of all-time highs, Molycorp shares just hit all-time lows. Investors have to be worried (sorry, growing more worried) about Molycorp's future.
SanDisk shares hit a new all-time high just above $90 on Thursday. Investors should remember that this all-time high comes at a time when many high-flying favorites have been pounded.
Downloads for April indicate that the total market for apps grew by 1.5% in the month. Also, the Apple App Store posted a small revenue gain, compared with a small revenue loss at the…