The initial public offering for Gogo Inc. (NASDAQ: GOGO) should price for trading late this week. We have been waiting for this one for some time because Nasdaq showed that its initial public offering…
ThinkstockA new alert has gone out from the National Weather Service regarding tropical storm activity. The note signals that Tropical Depression Two has formed in the 2013 hurricane season. The storm’s current location is…
ThinkstockPetróleo Brasileiro S.A. (NYSE: PBR), known as Petrobras to most U.S. investors, may finally be closer to a bottom in its stock price. While U.S. oil giants have hung in there, Petrobras shares just…
Now that the news behind PRISM has scared millions of consumers about privacy issues, companies are releasing figures covering how many requests local, state and federal governmental agencies have made. The periods are various from…
ThinkstockStocks were already higher this Monday morning in early trading, and now we have some economic readings to support the gains. The Empire Manufacturing Index is released monthly by the Federal Reserve Bank of…
These are the top analyst downgrades, cautious research notes and stocks to sell from Wall Street for Monday, June 17, 2013. They include Teradata, T-Mobile US, Lululemon and Time Warner Cable.
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Monday, June 17, 2013. They include ChannelAdvisor, Comcast, Tesla Motors and Koninklijke Philips.
ThinkstockThe analysts at Lazard Capital continue to believe that underlying fundamentals for the top companies in the drug channel (distributors, retailers, etc.) remain sound. Prescription use has picked up over the past six months,…
ThinkstockOver the past five weeks, the 10-year Treasury bond yield has increased by over one-half of one percent from 1.66% to 2.17%. The overall equity market has rallied 3.8% during this stretch but as…
courtesy of General ElectricGeneral Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) had been trading up marginally during Friday morning, but news of the company’s dividend is not exactly creating any new interest. GE released news that its…
ThinkstockThis week brought on a nasty credit rating downgrade from Standard & Poor’s for the City of Detroit. Now we have word that Detroit’s Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr has identified plans to a group…
courtesy of OracleOracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) almost certainly will to dominate the earnings reports from technology in the week ahead. The $160 billion enterprise software giant’s streak of beating earnings has not been as…
ThinkstockWells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is supposed to be the best bank in America now. It has a solid balance sheet, trades above book value, has more than a dominant position in the…
ThinkstockThe U.S. recovery may have tame inflation and weak capacity and production, but now have the most highly watched report of the day, which is actually not even a government economic report. The Reuters/University…
ThinkstockWhen investors and the public hear about industrial production and capacity utilization, they might wonder what its place is when the United Stats has outsourced so much manufacturing and moved into a services and…
ThinkstockThe U.S. current account aims to measure the nation’s international trade balance, and it considers all goods, services and unilateral transfers each quarter. Today’s report was a first-quarter measurement, so it should have little…
ThinkstockFriday’s big government release for economic data was the Producer Price Index (PPI). The aim is to measure wholesale inflation to determine what will happen to consumer prices and consumer inflation in the months…
ThinkstockIn 2012, the S&P 500 Healthcare Equipment & Supply index was up 15.1%, while the S&P 500 was up 13.4%. However, it was in-line with the broader S&P 500 Healthcare index, which was up…
Jon OggInvestors and traders are frequently looking for fresh research ideas that will generate higher income or more profits. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many analyst research calls to find great ideas in value stocks,…
ThinkstockAlpha is one of those confusing terms 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 of an…