Weekly Jobless Claims Tick Higher
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThursday’s jobs report from the U.S. Labor Department showed that weekly jobless claims rose by 5,000 to 320,000. The prior report was left unrevised at 315,000. Dow Jones was calling…
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Newest first · Page 389UBS Says Don’t Hedge These Five Stocks — They Will Go Higher
In a new research report, the equity and derivatives strategy team at UBS has a list of stocks for clients to overwrite. Most interesting was their list of stocks that they specifically said NOT…
Credit Suisse Says to Exit Overweight Japan Trade
Jon OggThe pro-Japan quantitative easing trade is coming to an end. At least that is what Credit Suisse has telegraphed in its global equity strategy sector outlook. The firm’s Andrew Garthwaite calls it a…
Tesla Gets Legislative Support for Sales in Arizona
Through a quirky legislative rule, a committee of the Arizona State Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would allow electric car maker Tesla Motors to sell its vehicles directly without having a distributor…
J.P. Morgan: Only Three Solar Stocks to Buy and Own Now
thinkstockWith any other emerging technology, the cheaper it gets, the more it is accepted. Solar is the living proof of that. The good thing for investors that embrace a position of solar stocks in…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: First Solar, NII, NRG, Ulta, Under Armour and More
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Thursday, March 20, 2014. They include First Solar, Oracle, Ulta Salon and Under Armour.
Starbucks to Give Customers What They Want — Booze!
Starbucks has been testing alcohol sales at some 40 of the company's 11,500 U.S. stores, and the coffee purveyor said it is ready now to begin rolling out an evening menu of light snacks…
Could the Worst Be Over for Copper and Freeport-McMoRan?
ThinkstockFor weeks, people who follow copper and the stocks of copper producers have been wringing their hands as prices have slipped ever lower, finally hitting a 44-month low Wednesday morning. Given what happened later…
States Where the Most People May Be Due Tax Refunds
ThinkstockSeveral hundred thousand Americans might do well to contact the IRS. The agency claims that nearly one million people who did not file tax returns in 2010 could be due money. All these people…
Time for Xerox Board to Fire CEO Burns
Xerox has not grown for several years. Xerox management, particularly long-serving CEO Ursula Burns, has run out of cost-cutting tricks. Very few who follow the company closely believe it can grow going forward.
Starbucks Targets $100 Billion Market Value
Howard Schultz, the ambitious founder and CEO of Starbucks, believes the coffee company can have a market value of $100 billion, about twice its current level. The goal is ambitious, but Schultz has good…
Oh No, Another 3D Printing Revenue Warning
The ExOne Company (NASDAQ: XONE) is hurting its peers and rivals in the 3D printing sector. Investors have become used to warnings from this group, and now it seems as though the hype may…
The 5 Stocks That Dragged Down the Market on Wednesday
thinkstockMarch 19, 2014: Markets opened lower on Wednesday and closed even lower after Janet Yellen’s debut as chairwoman of the U.S Federal Reserve. The major change is that the Fed is dropping its commitment…
Fed Fund Futures After FOMC: Rate Hikes to Start in April 2015
Janet Yellen made a bit of a surprise on Wednesday in her FOMC statement and then again in her press conference. The 6.5% unemployment rate threshold has been lightly removed, in part due to…
GM Debuts 3-Cylinder Engines — Go-Karts for Freeways!
Ford Motor Co.General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) announced on Wednesday that it plans to have annual production of its Ecotec small-displacement engines ramped up to 2.5 million a year by 2017. How small? Well,…