The research team at Jefferies is more convinced than ever that the future for companies specializing in fighting and containing security threats is bigger than ever. Here are the stocks to buy that are…
courtesy of BaiduBaidu Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) is setting itself up to challenge new all-time highs after its quarterly earnings report. With how late this earnings report was compared to prior years, it seems somewhat…
courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is going to the capital markets for a serious capital raise. Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker is planning to raise $1.6 billion in a convertible senior…
ThinkstockThe initial public offering market has been rather strong in 2014. After we recently featured our Top 10 IPOs to Watch in 2014, we took a look at the batch of the many IPOs…
ThinkstockForest Oil Corp. (NYSE: FST) was trading on Wednesday as though it is going to implode. With a stock price of $2.05 after a 36.5% drop in one day, and with shares having hit…
courtesy of ebayThe war of words between eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) and activist investor and billionaire Carl Icahn is heating up. eBay’s message in the headline was simply “Stick to the Facts, Carl.” When…
ThinkstockSodaStream International Ltd. (NASDAQ: SODA) is trading higher after the beverage machine maker’s earnings report. Oddly enough, the stock was having a very hard determining what it wanted to do when the earnings report…
ThinkstockThe gun trade in stocks is over — at least for now. If you have followed the gun and ammunition demand in America over the past 15 months or so, you will know that there…
Oppenheimer has issued a list of companies with key takeaways from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. But the firm also called the show somewhat disappointing, with little in new technology or disruption.
UBS attended the recent analyst day at J.P. Morgan, and its analysts came away with 10 specific items that they learned. These are interesting items for shareholders or investors considering taking a position in…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Wednesday, February 26, 1014. The include LinkedIn, Safeway, NII Holdings, Rangold Resources and EP Energy.
courtesy of Cisco SystemsCisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) recently reported along with its earnings that its cash and cash equivalents and investments were $47.1 billion. So why did Cisco decide to raise capital by…
SEC.govThe initial public offering for Coupons.com is getting closer and closer to fruition. The online coupons site has set the terms at 11.5 million shares to be sold between $12.00 and $14.00. The company…
ThinkstockKimberly-Clark Corp. (NYSE: KMB) received almost no coverage for the dividend hike that was announced on Tuesday. For this consumer products giant to raise its dividend by almost 4% does not sound like huge news…
ThinkstockVIVUS Inc. (NASDAQ: VVUS) is suffering from what looked like good news on the surface. The reality, and the catch about investing, is that things can often be much more complicated than an earnings…
If Tuesday's move in Office Depot is not proof that the efficient market does not exist, then what does? Ditto for Staples. We have said that the efficient market theory has been dead for…
Wikimedia CommonsSo, how silly do the people who bought Bitcoin at $1,000 or higher feel now? That is the question that needs to be asked — as well as how eager these people will…
The Conference Board has released its Consumer Confidence Index for February, and the news is not good. After increasing to 79.4 in January, the reading fell to 78.1 in February. Bloomberg was actually looking…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Tuesday, February 25, 2014. They include Tesla Motors, Verizon Communication and VIVUS.
MLPs have become more prevalent in investor portfolios over the past couple of years. The problem is that this segment of the oil and gas sector has seen its valuations become lofty as investors…