IPOs Continue to Surge
ThinkstockLast week, there were 11 initial public offerings (IPOs) scheduled, and 10 made it through. For the coming week, we’ve counted 9 pending IPOs, including one that did not make it out of the…
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ThinkstockWhile carrying some student loan debt may be inevitable, higher and higher balances can strain finances for a decade or more. About 37 million Americans now owe more than $1 trillion on their student…
The Argument for $75 Oil Should Be $95 Oil
Barrons.comThe oil industry may feel picked on by Barron’s of late. Master limited partnerships (MLPs) were not exactly given the biggest welcome mat in a piece about Kinder Morgan Inc. (NYSE: KMI). Now Barron’s…
U.S. Consumers Continue to Pay More for Milk and Beef
ThinkstockThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its preliminary report on March farm prices Friday afternoon. The all-products price index rose by 5 points month-over-month (4.7%) to 111, with the crop index up 2.2%…
Unemployment Continues to Cripple Four States
ThinkstockUnemployment in the United States dropped to 6.7% in February, well below the 10% level it reached at the worst of the Great Recession. While the figure is not as low as economist would…
GM Adds 970,000 Cars to Ignition Switch Recall
Wikimedia CommonsThe total number of cars included in the General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) recall to repair a defective ignition switch rose to 2.6 million on Friday, when the company added 971,000 cars to the…
Analysts Favorite Tech Stocks Trading Under $10
Thinkstock24/7 Wall St. reviews dozens of analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations each morning of the week. Quite simply, the hunt is on for new ideas of stocks to buy and stocks to sell. Sometimes…
Best Buy Back in Deep Trouble
courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) started a turnaround under CEO Hubert Joly who joined the huge consumer electronics company in August 2012. The company had been damaged by the success…
BlackBerry CEO Reverses Direction on Handsets
courtesy of Blackberryquarter results, the firm announced that it had reached a five-year strategic partnership with Hon Hai Precision Manufacturing, aka Foxconn. The Taiwanese company would build some BlackBerry devices and manage the inventory…
Ford CEO Makes $23 Million
Courtesy Ford Motor Co.Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) CEO Alan Mulally will be remembered for two things. The first is that he turned around the No. 2 U.S. car maker and kept it out…
Three Big Weekly Analyst Sell Ratings: Pulte, Telefonica, Wet Seal
ThinkstockInvestors get to hear about Wall Street analysts issuing Buy ratings daily. They often do not get to hear about the Sell ratings. 24/7 Wall St. reviews dozens of analyst research reports each morning.…
Three Analyst Tech Stocks to Sell: BlackBerry, NetApp, Himax
Investors often get to hear about new Buy ratings from analysts, but rarely do they hear when to sell a stock. These were the three tech stocks to sell from Wall Street analysts this…
Analysts Issue Sell Ratings on Citi and Ambac
Investors often get to hear about Buy ratings from Wall Street analysts. But here are two financial "stocks to sell" from this past week, according to analysts.
The 4 Stocks That Pushed Markets Higher
thinkstockMarch 28, 2014: Markets opened higher on Friday on hopes for more government stimulus to the economies of Japan and Europe. There might also have been some investors looking to pick up shares that…
GM Halts Sales of Some Cruze Models
General Motors sent an email notice to all U.S. Chevrolet dealers to stop selling some 2013 and 2014 models of the company's Cruze compact cars. No recall order has been issued -- yet.