courtesy of FordThe equity analysts and strategists at UBS A.G. (NYSE: UBS) expect to see U.S. equities continue to conform largely to the “1994 Playbook” in which stocks meander higher after correcting in response…
courtesy of RiteAidRite Aid Corp. (NYSE: RAD) has been under serious influence of The Jean Coutu Group since 2007. That is coming to an end. The turnaround drug store chain said that a recent…
ThinkstockWhen Barron’s ran “Gold Is Regaining Its Glow” over the weekend, they probably made the weekend over every concerned and disheartened gold bug in the world. After all, how can central banks print up…
Jon OggThe casual dining sector, particularly the fast food segment, may have run its major growth course. After McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) posted a disappointing company earnings report we can only yet again consider…
ThinkstockInvestors are starting to be less concerned that high-yield dividend stocks could get crushed by a rising interest rate environment. Chairman Bernanke and the Federal Reserve have been getting more vocal that quantitative easing…
Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) may be the subject of a special dividend very soon. The problem is that this high-yield dividend actually may turn out to be bad for shareholders, as it will come…
ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has released its Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) for the month of June. Economic activity is showing a slight improvement on the national scale, but it is…
ThinkstockFor investors with the view that we have seen the worst of the correction in commodity stocks for 2013, or will soon shortly, the research team at Oppenheimer believes increased exposure to the commodity-sensitive…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Monday, July 22, 2013. They include Crocs, General Electric, Juniper Networks and Nokia.
ThinkstockFor much of the past year and through the first quarter of 2013, the refinery sector was on fire. The top stocks in the sector were some of the top-performing stocks overall. The stocks…
The DJIA and S&P 500 Index are in the midst of earnings season, and despite choppy earnings and sales figures the stock market just keeps rallying higher and higher. Friday’s mixed results do not…
courtesy of Google Inc.No matter how you cut it, Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) delivered an earnings report that its stock price was not indicative of going into the company earnings. After closing at $910.68,…
Jon OggInvestors and traders are constantly on the hunt for new research ideas that will generate higher income or more profits. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many analyst research calls from Wall Street and from…
ThinkstockThe second quarter of 2013 for many industrial stocks was stubbornly soft. With difficult year-over-year comparisons, and the economy both here and abroad struggling to gain traction, many of the top industrial stocks covered…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsWeekly jobless claims data have been released by the U.S. Labor Department. Last week was a very big surprise as the preliminary figure rose to 360,000 when it was expected…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Thursday, July 18, 2013. They include Citrix Systems, eBay, Intel, SanDisk and Johnson & Johnson.
ThinkstockThe exploration and production (E&P) research team at Deutsche Bank expect significant focus at the midway point in the year for top oil and gas stocks they cover to be on capital allocation. With…
courtesy of IBMInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is the largest DJIA stock by its weighting, and it has just reported its company earnings for the second quarter of 2013. IBM’s report was up…
Trian Fund Management, under Nelson Peltz, owns a stake more than $1.3 billion in shares of PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP). Now the fund group is becoming more of an activist as the group has…
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is one of the most controversial buyouts in recent memory, certainly when you consider the size of this transaction going well above $20 billion. The fight between Carl Icahn and…