The Federal Reserve has delivered its first formal interest rate hike for the tenure under new Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. While the formal rate hike was already expected, what matters is the Fed’s longer-term…
24/7 Wall St. has screened the various sectors in the S&P 500 Index and pulled out six companies that offer several things many income-seeking investors would love to see.
Get ready for the semiconductor capital equipment segment to be less cyclical ahead. That's the message from Merrill Lynch's semiconductor team.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Wednesday include Applied Materials, Celgene, Children's Place, Kinder Morgan, Match, Myriad Genetics, Nordstrom and Oracle.
After Merrill Lynch hosted the 5G network team of Verizon Communications, the firm's view is that Verizon has a lot of potential upside for investors.
India's great long-term growth opportunities have not translated into gains for investors so far in 2018. But Goldman Sachs feels that India likely will benefit from demographic trends, reforms and an attractive equity market.
McDonald’s announced on Tuesday that it plans to partner with franchisees and suppliers in a larger effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions related to its restaurants and offices by 36% by 2030.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Tuesday include AK Steel, BHP Billiton, Dominion Energy, JB Hunt, KLA-Tencor, Micron Technology, Nucor, Oracle, Roku and U.S. Steel.
The University of Michigan's Survey of Consumers showed that consumer sentiment rose yet again in early March.
The world of semiconductor mergers was trying to move from already large up to massive. Now it seems like there may be at least some more rational exuberance in the semiconductor segment of technology…
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Friday include Bank of America, Broadcom, Dominion Energy, Netflix, Pegasystems, 21st Century Fox, Thor Industries and Western Digital.
If the team at Merrill Lynch is right, Cheniere Energy has more upside ahead. What stands out about this bullish call is that it may not have been bullish enough to entice new investors.
With the markets worried about inflation creeping higher and about expected gross domestic product growth creeping lower, sometimes the markets have to digest regional data to see if some inferences can be drawn from regional Federal…
It's not looking like that great of a day for the world of natural gas prices. That's bad for the stocks and exchange-traded products that follow natural gas prices.
It almost seems odd that Boeing would no longer be the top-performing Dow stock, after having held on to that position for so long.
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and other research calls from Thursday include AON, Broadcom, Expedia, Exxon Mobil, Match, Mylan, Ocean Rig UDW, Signet Jewelers and Transocean.
It’s not every day that a $2 billion gold company sets the stage to raise up to $1 billion via new securities sales. IAMGOLD Corporation (NYSE: IAG) has filed a mixed shelf registration statement…
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) is getting ready to unleash its new direct-to-consumer over the top video and content system that is expected to compete against Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) and others. Now…
If there is one state that comes to mind with high taxes and higher regulations that go above and beyond federal ones, it would be California. It turns out that even the golden state…
When the U.S. Department of Labor released its February measurement of the Producer Price Index (PPI), it showed that producer prices tended to rise more than consumer prices. Unfortunately for the inflation hawks, there…
