Bracing for the Twitter IPO Filing — Now Due Thursday, Maybe
4:14 p.m. EST: Word has been out that Twitter will file its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission before the end of the week. We are now expecting this A-1 filing to drop…
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Tropical Storm Karen Forms, U.S. Gulf of Mexico on Watch
ThinkstockThe federal government shutdown is creating some interesting website outages and making it very difficult to track certain developments. With it still being hurricane season, it is difficult to get formal tracking when so…
Weekly Jobless Claims: A Very Mixed Report from Labor Department
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is, at least as of last look, not expected to release the unemployment situation and the nonfarm payrolls report on Friday due to the government shutdown.…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: BlackBerry, Micron, SanDisk, VIVUS and More
Jon OggWith the government shut down and with the debt ceiling debate breathing down everyone’s neck, investors have to be wondering what they should buy, sell and hold (or even avoid). Stocks have come…
Can Tesla Remain Worth One-Third of Ford and Half of GM?
courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) has defied logic when it comes to valuation for a car company. We have by and large stopped tallying up valuation metrics because there are forces driving…
ETFs Taking In, and Losing, the Most New Capital in September 2013
ThinkstockExchange traded funds (ETFs) almost undoubtedly have unseated mutual funds in their importance in the daily swings in the stock and bond markets. Mutual funds are still important to the markets, but these ETF inflows…
Dell Debuts New Tablets and Laptops Just in Time for (Something)
courtesy of DellDell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is getting less visibility now that it is on the way to no longer having thousands and thousands of shareholders who might want to consider buying one of…
New BlackBerry Buyout Interest, Just Do Not Ignore the $7 Warning
Courtesy Research in Motion Ltd.It is no longer a secret that Blackberry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) is in trouble. It is also no secret that Fairfax Financial has entered into an expression of interest to…
Spin-Offs Back in Vogue: Six Must-Watch Special Situations
ThinkstockWhen the markets go through periods of great gains, it is not uncommon to see companies start to take more radical efforts to increase their total return for shareholders. Some may go borrow money…
Bill Gross of PIMCO Sees Low-Low Interest Rates Lasting For Decades
Now that it is a new month there is a new investment outlook from Bill Gross of PIMCO, who is often referred to as the “bond king” or “king of the bond market” by…
TrimTabs Jobs and Employment Report Even Worse Than ADP, Labor Department Staycation
ThinkstockBecause the federal government has shut down, there is unlikely to be a formal unemployment report for the month of September from the Labor Department this Friday. That made Wednesday’s ADP National Employment Report…
ADP Sets Up Weak and Softening Jobs Numbers for September
ThinkstockDue to the government shutdown, about all we can really expect from the Labor Department is a report on weekly jobless claims. Yes, the national unemployment and payrolls report likely will not be released this…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Alcoa, Baidu, GE, Tesla, Valero and More
Jon OggInvestors and traders alike are looking for ideas and recommendations now that the government shutdown is here and with a debt ceiling debate ahead. Each morning 24/7 Wall St. reviews dozens of Wall…
The Highest-Yielding Dividends That Are Safe to Hold
ThinkstockThe number of companies paying dividends in the S&P 500 is at a 15-year high. According to FactSet, just over 80 companies in the index do not pay dividends. Paying dividends has become more…
The Vatican Bank Annual Report Now Open, a True First
ThinkstockPope Francis has been working towards a pledge of greater and greater transparency in the Catholic Church. This pledge also includes financial transparency. For the first time ever, the Vatican’s bank has released its annual…
Barracuda Networks Files for IPO: Security and Storage Going Public Finally
ThinkstockBarracuda Networks finally has decided to come public and has filed its paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission. No financial terms were stated other than it is planning to sell up to $100 million…
Angie’s List: Brain Drain, or Business Woes?
AngieslistAngie’s List Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGI) has always seemed like an odd company to us, even to the point that we questioned whether it should have ever been public AND whether it should be worth…
Ten Stocks to Buy Benefiting from the Government Shutdown
The government has decided to shut down, and investors and the public are trying to figure out what all of this really means. Is this good politics or bad? Is it good for economy…
More Dividend Cuts Likely in Gold Producers and Miners
ThinkstockGold bugs and fans of gold mining stocks are not going to get a pleasant feeling here. Fitch Ratings has a cautious report on what can happen to gold miners and producers even when…
Carl Icahn Pushes Apple for $150 Billion Stock Buyback
JoeInQueens, via Wikimedia CommonsCarl Icahn no longer has Michael Dell to go after, so his attention, while much less vocal, now is heading back toward Tim Cook and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). Icahn wrote on…