ThinkstockNavigator Holdings Ltd. has joined the list of companies looking to capture the interest of a strong market for initial public offerings. The company filed its IPO paperwork (F1) with the Securities and Exchange…
courtesy of Google Inc.Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has spent most of the last three months trading in a range of $850 to $900, without much deviation above $900 and without much trading below $850.…
ThinkstockMost investors generally think that private equity firms exit most of their investments by initial public offerings or by outright resale of a whole company. There is actually another private equity exit strategy, and…
This story has been updated from the 1:28 p.m. EST post time to reflect a new all-time high. The DJIA may be stuck in the mud because of its huge weighting of International Business…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsNow that Congress and the White House have managed to cobble together a compromise on the government shutdown and the debt ceiling, investors can get back to planning their finances…
24/7 Wall St. is a huge fan of dividends. Rising dividends and safe high-yield dividends are even better. What is not good is when things are bad enough that a company will have to…
ThinkstockFirst you saw dismal numbers from the Empire Manufacturing report from the New York Federal Reserve. Now you are getting to a slightly different take from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve in the so-called Philly…
ThinkstockBy now you have probably noticed a series of big hits and really bad misses by the mattress makers when they report earnings and offer guidance. It is almost as if a bed bug…
ThinkstockBiotech is a sector where investors know they are entering a high-stakes game of big risk and big reward. That is particularly the case for the small-cap biotech stocks that have no products and…
Jon OggEarnings season has started as Washington, D.C., seems to have figured a way out of its shenanigans again. Now investors really have to be wondering which stocks to buy and which to sell.…
ThinkstockThe federal government may have been closed, but the Labor Department did manage to get another weekly jobless claims report out. Due to imbalances in California and elsewhere, we are not willing to endorse…
Jon OggInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is proving that it has very limited growth opportunities in new revenues. The only saving grace for the rest of us these days is that IBM is…
ThinkstockA deal between Democrats and Republicans has supposedly been reached in Washington, D.C., to end the government shutdown and to end the debt ceiling expiration. While many people expect that this will prevent Treasury…
courtesy of Yahoo!Sometimes people just do not know how to concede that a win is a win. The truth is that winners know when they won, while losers often fail to concede that they…
ThinkstockThe saying is that if there is a trading strategy, then there is an ETF strategy for that as well. Now the markets are getting a new exchange-traded fund strategy aimed at tracking the…
ThinkstockStocks have surged on news that a Reid-McConnell deal is nearly at hand. A deal has been reported as being close, and also that John Boehner would put a Senate bill on the floor…
ThinkstockMolycorp Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is becoming an expert at screwing its investors. If anyone wanted a “death before dilution” company in their portfolio, they have been slaughtered over and over here. The supposed rare…
Stocks are showing the concern over the shenanigans taking place in Washington, and investors have to worry which stocks they should be buying, selling or avoiding. It turns out that analysts think many companies…
Jon OggInvestors are trying to figure out which stocks they should buy, sell or avoid now that the government shutdown is two weeks old and the debt ceiling debate is stalling yet again. These…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsIn the midst of the start of earnings season and in the midst of a Fitch credit ratings warning to the United States, a key decision has been made by the company which…