UBS Has Five Chip Stocks to Buy Now
ThinkstockThe grinding sell-off that started with biotech, moved to momentum stocks and ended up with solid big cap technology stocks has given investors a very solid entry point to some of the top stocks…
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California’s Central Valley Drought to Cost 14,500 Jobs
ThinkstockThere is no doubt that the ongoing drought has hit California’s Central Valley hard. A new study by the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences suggests that it could cost the agriculture industry there…
Customers Are Sticking With Target
A recent Bloomberg poll suggests that most Target customers are willing to forgive the massive data breach that came to light over this past holiday season.
Is Pitney Bowes Headed for a Multiyear High?
Shares of Pitney Bowes took another run at their 52-week high Monday morning. This came in the wake of a positive Barron's article over the weekend.
Video Game Sales Up Big Again in April: Three Top Stocks to Buy
ThinkstockThe consumer market research firm NPD group says the numbers are in for April sales of video games, and they are up big. Sales grew a whopping 17% for the month and were way…
UBS Says Rising Inflation Will Help These Four Top Stocks to Buy
courtesy of Whole Foods MarketInflation always seems like a dirty word we don’t want to talk about. In reality, the Federal Reserve is praying for some, and there are sectors that actually benefit from…
Three Oversold Biotech Stocks That Could Have Gigantic Upside
ThinkstockThe biotech meltdown that started in late February was an indiscriminate killer. The top mega-cap sector leaders were shot down in flames along with small cap names that have yet to make a dime.…
Netflix Benefits as Cord-Cutter Ranks Swell
Netflix's share of fixed-line Internet traffic in North America has grown to 34% of data flowing to consumers during peak times. Cord cutters were the heaviest users of streaming audio and video.
Battered Security Software Stocks That May Have 70% Upside
ThinkstockSometimes despite good earnings and outlooks, great stocks get caught up in sell-offs like the one we experienced from late February through much of April. What started as biotech sell-off turned into an “anything…
How Weakness in Clean Tech Stocks Could Lead to Huge Gains
thinkstockWhile Wall Street firms hold and attend conferences for everything imaginable, often a very telling metric for the conference is attendance. At the recent CleanTech conference attendance was up 70% year-over-year. The analysts at…
Merrill Lynch’s Top Water Stocks to Buy
ThinkstockFace it, we cannot live without water. The reality is that, on the supply side, the world is facing an insufficient supply of fresh water, the distribution channels are uneven, quality is vastly different…
Who Wants to Buy Lululemon?
Shares of beleaguered yoga-inspired apparel maker Lululemon Athletica got a boost Tuesday morning on new speculation it may be a takeover target. VF Corp. is the potential buyer.
Credit Suisse Identifies Big Merger Candidates in Retail
Wikimedia CommonsOften the simplest and most subtle changes can turn an industry upside down. A recent change by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in its language significantly broadens the definition of competitive segments in…
Credit Suisse Picks Refiners as Oil Winners for Summer
ThinkstockDespite much improved domestic production, a multitude of factors could converge to make the price of oil, and in turn gasoline, spike up. This comes as consumers are paying some of the highest prices…
Analyst Sees Sunny Days Ahead for Rio Tinto and Mining Sector
Shares of London-based mining company Rio Tinto got a boost in premarket trading in the U.S. Monday after an analyst upgrade of the mining sector that also helped lift stocks in European trading.
The Six Most Shorted Stocks on the Nasdaq
courtesy of Sirius XM RadioShort sellers continue to hold huge positions not only in troubled companies like BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY), but also in such tech giants as Intel. As of April 30, the…
The Six Most Shorted NYSE Stocks
Wikimedia CommonsShort sellers continue to hold huge positions not only in troubled companies like J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP), but also in blue chips like AT&T Corp. (NYSE:T) and Bank of America (NYSE: BAC). As…
What CBS Still Has Going for It
ThinkstockShares CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) retreated Friday morning, following the media company’s first-quarter report late Thursday. At issue was a 9% year-on-year decline in CBS’s entertainment division to $2.3 billion, which helped drive overall…
Top Technology Name Added to UBS Dividend Ruler Stocks
ThinkstockWith interest rates still hovering just above multiyear lows, we continue to monitor ways for investors to get higher yields without chasing higher risk. The UBS Dividend Ruler stock list is constantly reviewed, and…
Jefferies Highlights What May Be the Next Killer Internet App
A new research report from Jefferies points out that free shipping was part of most transactions in 2013, so the focus has shifted to faster delivery. These companies are the leaders in same-day delivery.