ThinkstockCredit Suisse’s Jahanzeb Naseer is out with an Indonesia market strategy call. Most investors know the term BRIC for Brazil, Russia, India and China. Now the new term is MINT, for Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria…
ThinkstockThe Business Roundtable has released its 2014 CEO Economic Outlook Survey for the first quarter. While there is an overwhelming number of CEOs looking for sales growth, it is a minority of CEOs who…
Oracle is set to report earnings after the close of trading on Tuesday. With many enterprise technology stocks having such a rough time showing any great earnings or revenue growth, this report could be…
Earnings season is winding down, but Adobe Systems is set to report earnings on Tuesday after the close. Here is what to expect from its report for the most recent fiscal quarter.
Insider selling is not always a sign of anything bad. Still, when it comes to 3D printing and hot sectors that have gone cold, investors should always at least pay attention to any corporate…
Pandora Media is having yet another management change. This time around it is in the chief technology officer role. Investors did not seem overly concerned in early trading on Tuesday.
GameStop shares were getting bruised on Tuesday on news that Walmart is directly targeting the GameStop model with a new push with its trade-in service and preowned game offerings. Can GameStop survive this challenge?
ThinkstockThe Labor Department has released its latest report on retail inflation via the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Prices in February were up 0.1% on the headline CPI. Core inflation, excluding food and energy, rose…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Tuesday, March 18, 2014. They include Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard, Michael Kors, Oracle and Shutterfly.
ThinkstockAmerica may have recovered handily from the Great Recession, and the bull market may now be five years old, but in no way should America think that it is remotely immune or even insulated…
Jon OggEarnings season has all but wound down, but some of the off-calendar quarterly earnings reports are still coming out. 24/7 Wall St. has tracked only six earnings of critical importance to watch this…
ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee has another meeting this week regarding U.S. interest rate policy. While no new rate announcement is expected to come, what is expected is the announcement of more…
ThinkstockMost Americans who have estates and families want to make certain that there is plenty left for their loved ones after they die. Millions have life insurance policies ranging from a few thousand dollars…
Shares of Sirius XM were reinstated with an Overweight rating at Evercore Partners. The company is now no longer involved in a low-ball buyout attempt by John Malone and Liberty Media.
ThinkstockInvestors have tracked the notion of stock splits for more than two generations now. The problem is that stock splits do not actually change the fundamentals of a company. Some investors even argue that…
Facebook was downgraded to Hold from Buy at Argus on Monday. The call is not all that bad on the surface, and Argus even maintained its a Buy rating on its long-term outlook with…
squirrel83, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Federal Reserve Bank of New York is out with its March 2014 Empire State Manufacturing Survey. Monday’s report signaled that business conditions continued to improve for New York manufacturers, but…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Monday, March 17, 2014. The include Baker Hughes, Cameron, Cisco Systems, Facebook and VeriSign.
ThinkstockThis past week marked the fifth anniversary of the bottom of the market from March 2009. To celebrate those massive gains since then, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has now fallen five consecutive trading…
ThinkstockThis last week was not exactly a great week for the bull market. After the bull market has now officially turned five years old from its March 2009 bottom, the Dow Jones Industrial Average…