courtesy of Netflix Inc.Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) has been the comeback kid in media and online entertainment. The subscription movie and media player has rendered Blockbuster and other business models irrelevant, and now its…
ThinkstockWeyerhaeuser Co. (NYSE: WY) soon will be a paper and forestry company that is merely a paper and forestry company, if reports that have resurfaced turn out to be fact. Reports hit yet again…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsYou have been warned not to use or to trust the Labor Department’s Employment Situation report for September. This was supposed to come out on October 4, but the excuse…
Jon OggWe are in the thick of corporate earnings season and stocks are challenging all-time highs. This is a climate in which investors want and need to know which stocks to buy and which…
ThinkstockTwo very defensive stocks for investors over the past generation or two have been the Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) and PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP). Coca-Cola has sales of soft drinks and other beverages. Pepsi…
ThinkstockVMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) is seeing a strong reaction to its corporate earnings report. Its third quarter sales were broadly in-line with analyst expectations, but earnings managed to beat the consensus analyst estimates. The…
courtesy of NetflixNetflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) has reported earnings and this was one of our 14 top earnings reports to watch this week. The digital media player reported earnings of $0.52 per share on…
Jon OggThe government shutdown may be averted for a few months and the S&P 500 Index may have just hit new all-time highs, but a short seller is maintaining his aggressive stance against shares…
ThinkstockIt is not uncommon that a loss of business at one provider is a win for other providers. If you have followed the Healthcare.gov list of continual sign-up issues since the start of the…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe federal government shutdown allowed many government agencies to stop with their normal economics reports, on which the stock market and bond market have come to depend. Now that Uncle…
Jon OggThe S&P 500 Index is hitting all-time highs and we are now deep into earnings season. This week will mark the second week of the earnings floodgates being open. 24/7 Wall St. has…
Stocks are at all-time highs again, and investors have to be wondering which stocks and sectors they should be holding, buying and selling. 24/7 Wall St. looks each morning for top research ideas that…
Jon OggStocks are at all-time highs now that a deal has been reached in Washington, D.C., and investors have to wonder which stocks are set to keep rising and which ones may have overstayed…
ThinkstockTellabs Inc. (NASDAQ: TLAB) is being acquired in a go-private transaction. The deal values the telecom equipment maker at $2.45 per share, and a private equity firm named Marlin Equity Partners and its affiliates…
Jon OggOctober 19, 1987, does not seem that long ago to many middle-aged and older investors, but that is now amazingly 26 years ago. This was the single largest one-day stock market crash of…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Federal Reserve is supposedly independent of the government, even if running the Fed is a Presidential appointment and requires backing of Congress. It also pays profits back to the government. The problem…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe bull market is alive and thriving now that Congress and the White House managed to cobble together a temporary agreement to end the government shutdown and the debt ceiling…
ThinkstockNews made the rounds this week that convenience store chain 7-Eleven would start selling fine wines in many of its locations. While you might have been able to only buy MD 20/20, Thunderbird or…
ThinkstockBiotech and emerging health care technology companies both fit into a high-stake poker match on Wall Street. Investors can earn exponential rewards if they are right, or they can lose it all if they…
Jon OggEarnings season is well into full reporting, and a debt deal has been reached in Washington, D.C. Now that the S&P 500 Index has hit a new all-time high, many investors are wondering…