Oppenheimer Top Stocks to Buy as Bull Market Turns Five Years Old
Five years ago, many investors had thrown in the towel. The S&P 500 hit an ominous intraday low of 666 and closed at 676.53. The world was coming to an end, and the last…
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Verizon Buyback Trumps Its Dividend News
Verizon's new share buyback plan might not sound like huge news on the surface, but you have to recall that the company was tied up for quite some time in its purchase of the…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Alcatel-Lucent, Charter, Staples, VMware and More
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Monday, March 10, 2014. They include Alcatel-Lucent, Charter Communications, Staples and VMware.
Cantor Fitzgerald Says Sell Twitter and Five Other Stocks Now
After a very long run in the market from the 2009 lows, there is always the chance a healthy correction is right around the corner. Here are six stocks that Cantor Fitzgerald analysts say…
Strategic Alternatives May Not Save NII Holdings
NII Holdings is trying a Hail Mary pass. The troubled Latin American cellphone provider announced early on Monday that it has hired UBS Investment Bank to be its financial advisor.
Barron’s Guts 3D Printing — Maybe Only Half the Story
ThinkstockThe 3D printing sector is likely going to come in on Monday wishing that Barron’s would have just kept picking on master limited partnerships (MLPs). Instead, the formerly hot sector of 3D printing was…
AMD Could Still Double in 2014, at Intel’s Expense
ThinkstockAdvanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) had an unusual end-of-week gain. It was a move that would have been missed by many investors. Still, this all fits in with the ongoing theme of a…
Analysts Fight Over Coal Stocks: Low Downside, High Upside
ThinkstockFriday brought about a big drop in the coal miners. Alpha Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: ANR) tanked after Goldman Sachs downgraded the coal player from an already cautious Neutral rating down to a Sell…
Why the FireEye Secondary Offering May Have Been a Gift
FireEye's stock performance on Friday was awful, and a secondary offering punished believers who had chased the stock up. But FireEye also may have given long-term investors a gift of chance.
Low-Priced Biotech Stocks That Could Double (or More)
ThinkstockThe latter part of the week was difficult for the biotech and specialty pharmaceutical sector. Unsettling news out of Washington, D.C., on potential changes in the taxation of the sector let the selling roll.…
Goldman Sachs Slams Coal in Downgrade
Coal investors are getting coal put in their stockings early in 2014. Alpha Natural Resources is having a very rough end to its week as a result due to a nasty downgrade from Goldman…
Biomet Is Coming Public via IPO, Again
ThinkstockWhat would appear to be an obscure initial public offering from LVB Acquisition Inc. is much more important than it might seem. This is actually the old medical devices company Biomet, and its name…
Windstream Pension Plan Selling Windstream Shares
An automatic shelf registration filed with the SEC shows that some 4,320,000 shares of common stock have been registered for a selling stockholder. Where this gets interesting is that the seller is actually the…
Labor Department Payrolls Bring a Pleasant Surprise
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsCan weather be to blame for poor jobs numbers for three consecutive months? After two disappointing Labor Department reports on monthly payrolls, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has determined…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Nokia, Safeway, Sirius XM, Skull Candy, Teva, and More
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Friday, March 7, 2014. They include Nokia, Safeway, Sirius XM, Skull Candy and Teva Pharmaceutical.
Seven Top Tech and Data Stocks to Buy From Jefferies
In a new research report, Jefferies analysts point out that they expect an acceleration in cloud data center transformation to software defined networking. These seven top chips stocks may benefit the most from this…
Sales Disaster Returns to the Gap
Wikimedia CommonsThe Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) may have raised its minimum wage, but the move is so far not helping out the company’s same-store sales data. In fact, the company’s same-store sales were bad…
Analyst Still Sees Dendreon Worth Only $1
ThinkstockDendreon Corp. (NASDAQ: DNDN) remains a company in trouble. The post-earnings jump looked promising and investors probably took some comfort when shares popped from $2.88 up to $3.31. Unfortunately, that did not last and…
More 787 Dreamliner Sales Will Not Save Boeing Pension Plan
courtesy Boeing Co.Another company is dumping another one of its pension plans. Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) is normally in the news for announcements about its 787 Dreamliner plane or other plane orders. On Thursday,…
Office Supplies Get Stapled to the Ceiling
The office supplies sector was challenged even before Thursday. Now things are worse after Staples said that its sales are being challenged and that it would close some 225 of its more than 2,200…