thinkstockThe recovery of alternative energy and clean energy may be political, and it may also be tied to what is simply a raging bull market for equities. Investors have started losing their fears that…
ThinkstockThe Institute for Supply Management (ISM) has reported that manufacturing is suddenly booming in America. Its July Manufacturing Index rose handily to 55.4 from only 50.9 in June. Dow Jones was looking for an…
ThinkstockYelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP) made our list of early bird analyst upgrades this morning, but it turns out that the upgrade cycle for Yelp is actually a large group of analysts. Yelp posted a…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department has its key employment and payrolls report due on Friday, and we already have seen mixed reports from TrimTabs and ADP trying to act as a preview to Friday’s report. The…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsAs the stock market continues its 1990s style rally, investors continue to keep a very close eye on changing strategies. High dividend stocks have given way to dividend growth stocks.…
ThinkstockWith the Federal Reserve reminding investors yesterday that it can raise or lower asset purchases in its quantitative easing program based on the data, all eyes shift to tomorrow’s employment numbers. With the “bad…
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These are the top analyst downgrades, cautious research notes and stocks to sell from Wall Street for Thursday, August 1, 2013. They include Atmel, Barclays, Enbridge Energy Partners, J.C. Penney and Humana.
thinkstockStandard & Poor’s has decided that the corporate credit ratings for the National Bank of Greece S.A. (NYSE: NBG) are affirmed at “CCC/C.” What remains a caution is that the ratings outlook is now…
courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveThe Federal Reserve statement from the July FOMC meeting has been released. Ben Bernanke and the team inside the Fed are looking for the economy to continue improving, but there will…
ThinkstockEastman Kodak Co. (OTC: EKDKQ) is dead as far as its stock goes, or at least it might as well be at 11 cents a share. This company has been one of the longest.…
ThinkstockAlcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU) is in the midst of a turnaround, or perhaps correcting a misguided turnaround that has hobbled the communications equipment maker for a decade. The stock was incredibly well received after…
courtesy of Sirius XM RadioThe share price of Sirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) manages to just keep rising and rising. The stock recovered handily after the recession, increasing from pennies to $1.00. Then…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Taking market share or losing market share is one key metric over how popular a product is. What happens if that market share does not translate to profitability? In the finicky…
ThinkstockEasy money and near-zero interest rates from the Federal Reserve created a great environment for gold bugs to drive the price of gold higher and higher. Central banks around the world also were printing new…
ThinkstockFriday’s key Labor Department report on unemployment and payrolls will be highly watched, and we have two nongovernmental reports that could significantly change those expectations. The ADP report for July looked good on the…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) has released its preliminary report on second-quarter gross domestic product (GDP). This report will be subject to two future revisions, but note that today’s report is considered…
ThinkstockADP has released its monthly payrolls report ahead of Friday’s key unemployment and private sector payrolls report from the U.S. Labor Department. The news looks good on the surface, as ADP signaled that the…
ThinkstockAlpha is one of those confusing terms that is used in the financial industry but rarely defined. It is basically a performance measurement on a risk-adjusted basis. Alpha takes the volatility or price risk…
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