Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: SWHC) is showing that gun sales are still booming. The firearm manufacturer reported that its preliminary sales for the quarter ending on April 30, 2013 rose by 38%…
ThinkstockAntero Resources Corporation might not be a household name, but an IPO filing for up to $1 billion may turn some heads. The company is an independent oil and gas player in the Appalachian…
ThinkstockThe United States Treasury has just sold $13 billion in 30-year Treasury Bonds. This “long bond” auction was expected to be highly watched because of the recent rise in interest rates and with the…
courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.Sometimes copying a successful proven strategy is far more rewarding than the risks of trying something new that has never been seen before. Remember how Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) did…
Hedge funds are often tracked by the media with a bit of a mysterious allure that often borders on misunderstanding. Hedge funds generally seek to have absolute returns, but in recent years the performance…
ThinkstockWas Meredith Whitney’s prediction about municipal and state bankruptcies more reality than she was attacked for? The ratings team of Standard & Poor’s issued a substantial downgrade to the city of Detroit on Wednesday…
ThinkstockA new communication has been issued by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for medical device manufacturers. This may sound like it is out of a science fiction movie, but the threat is…
Thursday finally brought on a lot of new economic data for investors to peruse from the Labor Department and Commerce Department. This on the heels of several days in a row of almost no…
Jon OggInvestors get to see many upgrades and positive research calls from Wall Street firms, but it is very frequent that they do not get to see when analysts downgrade stocks to sell or tell their…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Thursday, June 13, 2013. They include AMC Networks, BlackBerry, Boeing and Time Warner.
ThinkstockThe higher the market climbs, the harder it becomes for investors to find solid stock ideas to add or scale in to their portfolios. With the market currently teetering on what seems like an…
ThinkstockIn the past 60 days, mortgage rates have moved up 60 basis points from 3.35% to near 4%. While that may seem like a large move, it is important to remember that rates are…
ThinkstockSeaWorld Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: SEAS) is still a fairly new public company since it launched its IPO just in April. Shares are handily higher as well, and now shareholders are getting another boost from…
Brian Solis, via Wikimedia CommonsMark Zuckerberg might have had a tough time at the first annual Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) shareholder meeting this week, but he is learning to do the greatest business move…
courtesy of IBMInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is showing employees that the company must be one of the worst technology companies to work for, period! Reports are out that IBM is starting that…
thinkstockDo you ever get spam emails touting “public” companies on an unsolicited basis? If your email address appears anywhere online, chances are high that you have been sent a spam email that was not…
The U.S. Treasury auctioned off some $21 billion in new 10-year Treasury notes on Wednesday, and the auction results were very weak. This latest auction was expected to be closely followed as interest rates…
Reports have been out that sales of the book “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell have been on the rise. With many conspiracy theorists and those who are concerned about their privacy over the PRISM…
ThinkstockThe latest Business Roundtable survey is out for the second quarter of 2013, and the CEO Economic Outlook Survey shows that chief executives now expect a slight improvement in economic output over the next…
ThinkstockHerbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) has been nothing short of a battleground stock for short sellers and active traders looking for oversold bargains for a half-year now. It appears the company now has a new…