Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Amazon.com, Best Buy, Google, IBM, Marathon Petroleum, Nike and WisdomTree Investments.
RBC cautions that volatility might not go away anytime soon, but it urges investors to take advantage of the sell-off to buy high-quality, cash-generating assets.
The short interest data have come out for the August 14 settlement date. On the whole, short sellers appear to be backing off semiconductor stocks.
The U.S. Army has awarded a $6.7 billion firm, fixed-price production contract to Oshkosh Defense to build approximately 17,000 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles.
The August 14 short interest data have been compared with the previous figures, and for the selected pharmaceutical stocks, short interest is mixed.
The short interest data have been released for the August 14 settlement date. It just so happens that some of the latest short interest readings for major oil companies are backing off highs.
When the Mortgage Bankers Association released its latest report on mortgage applications, it noted a week-over-week increase in the group's seasonally adjusted composite index for the week ending August 21.
As Apple shares sell off to "correction" territory, mostly on concerns about China sales, short sellers have increased their bet against the stock.
Nearly everyone in America has a cell phone, and many people do not turn them off. One of the places cell phones should not be used is in church.
With the Chinese economy in trouble and cars sales there faltering, Chrysler is fortunate that it has not made much progress in the People's Republic.
AT&T, once firmly entrenched as the most shorted stock trading on the New York Stock Exchange, seems on a path to drop from the top 10 entirely.
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