Chinese manufacturing is in retreat for the first time in six months, according to HSBC. The purchasing managers' index, which tracks manufacturing activity in workshops and factories, fell from a December reading of to…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsMost of the firms that we cover on Wall Street have presented their high conviction stock picks for 2014. The analysts at Credit Suisse have taken a little bit longer…
Like many firms on Wall Street, the biotechnology team at UBS thinks that most of the top mega-cap and large cap biotech stocks are poised to beat earnings estimates across the board. Investors who…
Dow Chemical reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results before markets opened Wednesday, sending shares up sharply in premarket trading.
Strong U.S. sales of Ram pickups and Jeep Grand Cherokees helped Chrysler post its 10th-straight profitable quarter. 2013 saw the company's best performance since exiting bankruptcy in 2009.
The equity research team at Jefferies has come out with a list of their stocks to buy that have been ambushed hard, not only the past two trading days, but since the beginning of…
The technology team at Stifel is very positive on the overall prospects for the sector in 2014. Here are some of their picks that could be poised to excel in what could be a…
DuPont reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results before markets opened Tuesday. Its board of directors also authorized a new $5 billion share repurchase program.
Charter Communications reportedly has agreed in principle to sell Time Warner Cable systems in New York City, North Carolina and New England to Comcast if its acquisition of Time Warner Cable succeeds.
In a new research report, the energy team at Merrill Lynch see a more volatile year ahead, anchored on an increasingly seasonal trend as a consequence of rising domestic production and stagnant U.S. oil…
Shares of Vodafone tumbled in premarket trading Monday after AT&T ended speculation that it would acquire the British telecom. The British telecom has put itself on a path to growth by acquisition.
More than 400 Boeing 767 planes face further safety checks, by order of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), due risks of malfunction in flight-control systems that could cause pilots to lose control of the…
As part of its effort to put past mistakes behind it, Hewlett-Packard sold Palm's mobile operating system to LG Electronics last year, and on Thursday, HP announced that it had sold 1,400 U.S. Palm…
Although recent speculation had Dell interested in acquiring IBM's low-end server business, it was Lenovo that won the prize. The Chinese personal-computer maker has agreed to pay $2.3 billion.
The Mortgage Bankers Association noted a 4.7% increase in mortgage applications, relative to a week ago. Refinancing also increased, and mortgage loan rates declined to their lowest level since November.
Shares of United Technologies hit a new 52-week high after the company reported second-quarter fiscal 2014 results before markets opened Wednesday.
Here are some of the top biotech names to buy at Cowen. They presented such an extensive list that we focused on the quality large cap names and the stocks with the highest upside…
With production increasing in the United States at a record pace, the energy analysts at Oppenheimer are convinced that the days of tremendous rising revenues and profits at the major integrateds, as well as…
Coach shares were down more than 7% in premarket trading this morning after luxury goods firm reported disappointng second-quarter fiscal 2014 results.
Teva Pharmaceutical resume a deal-making strategy that made it one of the most acquisitive drug companies of the past decade. Could one of these biotech takeover candidates be the next target?