Jefferies Shows How to Profit from Gold
ThinkstockFor most of the past decade, gold was the place to be. A disastrous housing market collapse, terror attacks in the United States and a host of additional geopolitical issues pushed the price up…
All Work
Lee Jackson
UBS Adds Six Top Alpha Preference List Stocks to Buy for 2014
The Alpha Preference list of stocks to buy at UBS is comprised of companies that are the most preferred stocks to buy within the 41 major sectors that the firm covers. These are stocks…
Are Top Hedge Funds Starting to Rotate out of U.S. Stocks?
ThinkstockWith a stock market that has posted a 23% gain on the S&P 500 Index so far in 2013, the Prime Brokerage team at Credit Suisse is starting to see some interesting changes in…
UBS Adds Top New Stocks to Buy to Its U.S. Equity Focus List
We like to keep a close eye on the focus lists and conviction lists of the major firms that we cover on Wall Street. Typically stocks that are added and removed from these lists…
Jefferies Screens Top Stocks to Buy with Rising Business Orders
Courtesy Boeing Co.The third-quarter earnings season has been a very successful one. Most companies have beaten earnings expectations this quarter, continuing a long streak of better-than-expected earnings reports. The U.S. equity research team at…
UBS Sees High-Yield Dividend Laggards Ready to Lead the Market Higher
ThinkstockHistory shows that years following sub-2% GDP growth tend to be good for stocks, but near-term exuberance, with investors focusing again on momentum stocks, could signal a pause after the big rally from October 9.…
Video Game Stocks Heat Up Just in Time for the Holidays: GTA, Xbox, PS4
Electronic Arts Inc.The excitement around the staggering dollars that hot new video releases bring in is soon to be joined by hot new video gaming platforms. Rumors have circulated around the devices, where the…
Jefferies Identifies Top Tech Stock Leverage Buyout Candidates
ThinkstockPrivate equity firms have utilized the incredible market strength over the past couple of years to have initial public offerings on some of the deals that were put together before, and even during, the…
UBS Narrows Oil Services Picks to Six Names as Sector Gets Hit Hard
ThinkstockThe fracking revolution is helping to revive the U.S. oil exploration and production industry. It also is distinguishing the companies that are big enough and have deep enough pockets to finance the expensive process.…
Credit Suisse Built an ETF Portfolio Made for Rising Interest Rates
ThinkstockWhile the Federal Reserve most likely will not taper its bond-buying program known as quantitative easing this fall, and perhaps not this year, the fact that interest rates are going higher at some point…
Merrill Lynch Top America’s Edge Stocks to Buy and Sell for the Fourth Quarter
courtesy of AOL, IncHeading into the fourth quarter of this year, investors who have been long the stock market are poised for the best gains since the market exploded off the lows in 2009.…
Wunderlich Starts Coverage on Some of the Lower Risk High-Yielding MLPs
ThinkstockUpstream master limited partnerships (MLPs) underperformed the market in the third quarter of this year. The good news for investors looking to get on board is that the road ahead looks encouraging. Exploration and…
UBS Top Ideas for Higher Income and Yield in Dividends, Crossing Assets
Investors have become all too familiar with the increasingly difficult task of scouring the investment universe for income-generating securities. Bond investors have been forced farther and farther out the yield curve or down in…
Oppenheimer Institutional Portfolio Team Shows Industrial Stocks to Buy
ThinkstockBarring a collapse in corporate and consumer confidence, the current slow but steady economic growth should continue, with some strong evidence that smokestack America will lead the way. Not coincidentally, one area of the…
UBS Thinks Steel Is Ready to Shine: Stocks to Buy and Sell
ThinkstockThe steel industry tends to go with the pulse of U.S. and international economic growth. Mired in slow growth for years, the top steel stocks became relegated to the Wall Street doghouse. They were…
Poor Apple iPhone 5c Sales May Spell Trouble
courtesy of Apple Inc.Display Search, which is a worldwide leader in global market research and consulting, says that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has cut back iPhone 5c orders by 35%. Many on Wall Street…
J.P. Morgan Sees Solid Earnings from Big Integrated Oil Stocks
ThinkstockThe big North American integrated oil and major oil-producing stocks will begin to release their quarterly results on October 24. The research team at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) are forecasting an…
UBS Has Six Large Tech Stocks to Buy That Every Investor Should Own Long-Term
courtesy of Google Inc.Tech is undergoing one of its every-15-year transitions, this time from a client-server basis to information technology as a service (ITaaS). According to the tech analysts at UBS, history advises exiting…
Top Tech Stocks Poised to Benefit Most from 2014 IT Spending Growth
ThinkstockThe technology analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch surveyed more than 175 respondents with a total information technology (IT) budgets of more than $5 billion, predominantly in the United States (87% of companies).…
UBS Makes Changes in Top Stocks to Buy on the U.S. Key Call List
Wikimedia CommonsThe leading firms on Wall Street maintain a list of their top stocks to buy as their highest conviction calls from the top analysts in the firm. What is somewhat rare is to…