5 Big After-Hours Earnings Winners
ThinkstockEarnings season is well underway, and there are many big winners and losers after earnings each day. 24/7 Wall St. has been tracking the individual reports for the biggest and best companies, but there…
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LinkedIn Blows Out Earnings Expectations
LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) is still considered to be the social media winner for business, and its shares traded higher after beating earnings expectations. While the net loss was listed as -$67.7 million after…
What Exxon and Chevron Earnings Will Say About Big Oil Dividend Coverage
ThinkstockFriday will mark the crest of earnings season for the Dow and S&P 500, but it will also bring earnings reports from both of the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s oil giants. Both Exxon Mobil…
California Living Up To 25 Percent Water Cut Mandate
ThinkstockAsking an entire state to use 25% less water may sound easy in the asking portion of an equation, but implementing such efforts and actually living up to such efforts is less than easy.…
A Complicated Yet Intriguing New International Junk Bond ETF
ThinkstockThere is a new exchange-traded fund in town, and it is a mouthful to say the least. BlackRock has launched the iShares Currency Hedged Global ex-USD High Yield Bond ETF (NYSEMKT: HHYX). This new…
Why Almost Every Whole Foods Analyst Is Running Scared
courtesy of Whole Foods MarketWhole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFM) has been gutted yet again after its earnings report. The company has been facing serious competition from traditional grocery chains and has more upstarts…
More Reports Chime in on Univar After IPO Quiet Period
Univar.comUnivar Inc. (NYSE: UNVR) has not been public that long, and now we have seen more analysts chime in after the company’s first formal earnings report as a public company. For those who do…
How Credit Suisse Judges This New Tesla Referral Program
Courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) may be viewed with some caution by some investors after the company’s referral program came out on Wednesday. Even after several key analyst downgraded in recent…
Q2 GDP Shows Growth, But Not Strong Enough
ThinkstockInvestors, economists, and business owners just got to see their first view of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the second quarter of 2015. The US economy grew by 2.3% in the second quarter, shy…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Barclays, BP, LifeLock, Mobileye, Oracle, Southwest Air, Whole Foods More
Jon OggStocks were indicated lower after a dovish FOMC meeting and going into the first look at GDP in the second quarter. The rally from Tuesday and Wednesday was yet another sign of proof…
Sizing Up Republic’s Recovery
ThinkstockRepublic Airways Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: RJET) saw a reversal of misfortune on Wednesday. This stock fell handily on Monday and Tuesday, falling from over $8.00 down to under $4.00. So, what are investors supposed…
Can Tesla Make More Off of Used Cars and Referrals?
Tesla Motors Inc.The used car market is a critical portion of the auto market. In fact, you simply cannot have a good new car market without there being a solid underlying used car market.…
Did Janet Yellen Just Delay Rate Hikes Further?
Janet Yellen and the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) have not made any change in interest rates. Again. While that no-change was expected, there just wasn’t really any serious rate hike scare…
Is the Russian Central Bank Smart To Suspend Foreign Currency Buying?
Wikimedia CommonsThe Central Bank of the Russian Federation, or the Bank of Russia, is again having to deal with currency volatility. While it tries to keep its economy from sliding further at the same…
NuVasive Seen Mixed After Earnings Despite Stock’s Multi-Year Highs
ThinkstockNuVasive, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUVA) is proving to be one of the key winners from earnings. On top of gains nearing 10% after its report, investors might want to consider that NuVasive shares are at…
Why S&P Warning Brazil With Junk Rating Might Actually Be Good
ThinkstockThere is yet another incident happening in South America, and it just makes you wonder how long the vicious cycle of socialism versus capitalism can be played as a financial and economic shell game.…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Amazon, Citrix, Gilead, Sirius XM, 3D Systems, Twitter, Yelp and Many More
Jon OggStocks were indicated higher on Wednesday ahead of the pending FOMC decision on interest rates. Tuesday’s rally was yet another instance where investors proved that they want to buy stocks after every stock…
IAC/InterActiveCorp: The Match Group is Growing Ahead of IPO
ThinkstockIAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI) traded higher after earnings, but the reality of this company’s stance right now is that IAC’s big focus is likely going to be around the growth of The Match Group’s websites…
Yelp Shows Why Valuation and Growth Concerns Kept Buyers Away
Wikimedia CommonsSometimes investors worry when they see an analyst issue a key downgrade of a stock in the days or hours ahead of a company earnings report. Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP) was downgraded to…
Waste Management Gets Big Analyst Nod After Pullback
ThinkstockWaste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM) has likely found a new friend on Wall Street. The independent research firm Argus raised its rating on the waste management services giant to Buy from Hold, with a…