ThinkstockThe top 100 TV advertisers represent at least 50% of the market, and the top 20 represent 25 major brand advertisers. Their advertising agencies seek to buy media placements from a large, diverse group…
ThinkstockPriceline.com Inc. (NASDAQ: PCLN) is out with its second-quarter earnings report. The travel discount website operator has managed to keep growing beyond the United States to the point that its market value is more…
Hilton may be back as a public company, perhaps sooner rather than later. There have been many media reports around this on Thursday, but as your money matters to us we think this is…
PIMCO is perhaps the best known of the mega bond fund managers out there, and that makes Bill Gross the defacto bond king. His latest investment outlook is titled “Bond Wars” now that interest…
Courtesy BlackBerryThe rise and fall of Research In Motion, now BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY), has been a monumental one. Imagine having the best products craved by everyone to the point that your product name…
Opexa Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: OPXA) may have just become the villain of Wall Street in emerging pharma and biotech. This stock more than doubled on Wednesday, on what was no official news but around…
ThinkstockSun Edison Inc. (NYSE: SUNE) has enjoyed quite a recovery from its lows as MEMC. If the analyst team at BofA/Merrill Lynch is correct, Sun Edison investors are going to have a whole lot…
courtesy of The Coca-Cola CompanyThe UBS quality growth at a reasonable price recommendation list (Q-GARP) is very timely for investors concerned that the stock market may be overbought and ripe for a correction. The…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its weekly jobless claims. The past week’s report rose by 5,000 to 333,000. The Dow Jones and Bloomberg estimates called for claims to…
Investors and traders have seen three days of selling now and might want to consider looking for stock bargains in the malaise. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many fresh research calls each morning to find…
These are the top analyst downgrades, cautious research notes and stocks to sell from Wall Street for Thursday, August 8, 2013. They include Crocs, Target, Tesla Motors and Royal Dutch Shell.
courtesy of Facebook Inc.The future often seems to knock at the door when you may not be ready. Facebook aficionados recently received a message from founder Mark Zuckerberg explaining that the social media giant…
courtesy of Groupon Inc.How do you help businesses draw in new customers by bringing discounts to consumers and still lose money? That is the question that investors and watchers have for Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ:…
ThinkstockNormally we might skip an analyst report discussing coupon usage and streamlining efforts that only a small percentage of consumers will take advantage of. But when it comes to Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST),…
ThinkstockConsumer credit rose by $13.8 billion in the month of June, but it is not exactly debt going on credit cards. The Federal Reserve showed that revolving credit, credit used on cards and the…
ThinkstockWindstream Corp. (NASDAQ: WIN) has done it yet again. The advanced network communications provider has announced that its $0.25 quarterly dividend will be paid out on its common stock. Normally we would not care about…
ThinkstockThe days of Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) and Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FMCC) could soon be history. President Obama is now on board with an orderly winding down of these institutions. What…
ThinkstockGlobal X Funds has just launched a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) that brings exposure to master limited partnerships (MLPs) and to midstream energy infrastructure companies. The Global X MLP & Energy Infrastructure ETF (NYSEMKT:…
ThinkstockThis should sound familiar to you: “We are tying shot-term interest rates to the unemployment rate.” This is a message you have heard from Ben Bernanke and the U.S. Federal Reserve for some time…
ThinkstockYuMe Inc. (NYSE: YUME) is supposed to be in a hot space for digital video brand advertising solutions, but its initial public offering (IPO) is coming with some mixed fanfare. YuMe sold some 5,125,000…