Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia Commons24/7 Wall St. has identified many of the key stocks on the move for day traders and active traders. We have included a brief summary of the news causing the…
ThinkstockIn a secular bull market rally, sectors tend to go up and down on a favorable basis as they become either overbought or just lose momentum. The Institutional Portfolio team at Oppenheimer highlighted that…
These are the top analyst upgrades and stocks to buy for August 7, 2013, including Baxter, Finisar, Vodafone, Yum! Brands and more.
These are the top analyst downgrades, cautious research notes and stocks to sell from Wall Street for Wednesday, August 7, 2013. They include CVS Caremark, DaVita Healthcare, Zillow and Marathon Oil.
ThinkstockSlowly, but surely, cloud computing is changing the way that technology is applied. The analysts at Deutsche Bank in a new research piece, have taken a deep-dive into the model and note that evolving…
Stock splits have long been cheered by the investing community. After all, this gives retail investors the chance to get back in a stock at a more reasonable share price. You may recall the…
Brian Katt / Wikimedia Commons / GNU Free Documentation LicenseBank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) has yet another new lawsuit based upon the housing implosion and mortgage fraud. The Justice Department and the Securities…
courtesy of the Walt Disney Co.The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) no longer has to worry about the fight to split the roles of Chairman and CEO apart from Bob Iger, but now investors…
The stock market and bond market are trying and trying to figure out how to price in the eventual tapering effects of quantitative easing. Ultimately, these markets will both have to price in a…
Jon OggInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is a very important stock to the broad stock market. It is worth some $210 billion, and it is the largest stock of the Dow Jones Industrial…
The world of media convergence gets stranger and stranger by the month. Old media wants to be new media, but now it seems that the billionaires want to control the world of old media.…
ThinkstockIndia is supposed to be one of the great BRIC emerging market nations that offers massive growth and opportunity for investors. Some 1.2 billion people live in India, and its economic expansion historically has been a…
ThinkstockWall Street is seeing the quiet period end for two recent hot initial public offerings (IPOs) this Tuesday. CDW Corp. (NASDAQ: CDW) and HD Supply Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: HDS) have both performed very well,…
ThinkstockThe trade balance, better known as the trade deficit, widened out in May to -$45 billion in the preliminary report, and now the June report shows that the trade deficit came in much lower…
ThinkstockMost of the big retailers had a “choppy” July, and many are hoping for a strong back-to-school selling season. Since school starts around the country anywhere from mid-August in the South to the day…
Jon OggInvestors and traders are looking for fresh research ideas now that the markets are at all-time highs. Some investors are looking for income and others are looking for capital gains in long-term value…
ThinkstockEach of the independent refiners to report second-quarter earnings so far have shown year-over-year declines, reflective of a sluggish demand environment, rapidly compressing crude differentials and escalating renewable identification number (RIN) costs. While the…
By Steve Jurvetson CC-BY-2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO) has announced that Jeff Bezos is paying $250 million to acquire the Post’s newspaper publishing businesses, which of course includes the Washington…
Major League Baseball (MLB) has handed down its 50-game suspensions to 12 baseball players. Six of the players are in the major leagues right now, and six of them currently are playing in various aspects…
ThinkstockYou have probably noticed in the last couple of months that some of the strong housing recovery news headlines have tamed. Some of the price hikes, existing home sales, permits reports, pending contracts, and…