ThinkstockThe experiment behind the craze of the virtual currency Bitcoin may soon be coming to an end. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is calling for regulators to look into whether Bitcoin should…
ThinkstockTuesday marked the annual shareholder meeting for troubled telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU). What investors need to know is that the new CEO, Michel Combes, is going to continue in the path…
Private equity firms are taking profits in their portfolio holdings left and right. The third such instance today comes from General Growth Properties Inc. (NYSE: GGP). It has been announced that Blackstone Group L.P.…
ThinkstockHertz Global Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HTZ) is joining the ranks of large companies with private equity backers selling out. A huge offering took place after the sale of a whopping 49,800,405 shares of common…
Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE: GNRC) is seeing another instance where insiders are selling out of shares in a secondary offering. The power backup generator company is selling 9 million shares of common stock. Morgan…
These are the top analyst downgrades, cautious research notes and stocks to sell from Wall Street for Tuesday, May 7, 2013. They include AIG, Coach, J.C. Penney, T-Mobile US and Tiffany.
Investors and traders seem to be constantly looking for fresh research ideas that will lead to higher income or more profits. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many research calls each day to find great ideas…
ThinkstockAs the economy starts to pick up, major works projects that had been on the drawing board are starting to be initiated. Everything from the construction and installation of oil drilling rigs to large…
ThinkstockWith the stock market trading at all-time and multiyear highs, the question on every investor’s mind is can the stock market go even higher? At 1,615, the S&P 500 is at 15.4 times trailing…
Investors and traders alike always seem to be on the lookout for new speculative investment ideas that can generate massive long-term or short-term gains. While investors get to see many Buy ratings and some…
starwars.comElectronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) has a better friend from an old friend in the world of video games and brands. News has broken that the Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) and EA have entered…
ThinkstockIf you have been paying attention to consumer prices and producer prices of late, the drop in the price of oil and other energy related items has been keeping a very tight lid on…
By Matthew YoheMatt Yohe at en.wikipedia CC-BY-3.0, from Wikimedia CommonsWall Street may have done yet another damage to its image over the coverage universe in the shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL). In what…
ThinkstockAmerican Water Works Co. Inc. (NYSE: AWK) just delivered on yet another big dividend hike under its corporate governance plan for shareholders. The top water utility in America has raised the dividend paid to…
ThinkstockThe world of pharmaceuticals may have faced a patent cliff in recent years, but brand name drugs are still generating billions upon billions in annual sales in the United States alone. Some of these…
ThinkstockLast Friday’s unemployment report managed to come in much better than anticipated. Some even may have questioned whether the computers at the Labor Department were making proper calculations and tabulations again. A new report…
Jon OggInvestors frequently get to see the analyst upgrades and the myriad of Buy ratings from Wall Street, but they often do not get to see when analysts downgrade stock or when they issue sell…
Friday’s nonfarm payroll report is hopefully the beginning of some consistent hiring by American companies. Typically, small cap stocks derive some of the biggest benefit from an improving domestic economy, as their businesses are…
Investors and traders are constantly looking for fresh research ideas that will lead to higher income or more profits. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many fresh research calls to find great ideas from value stocks to…
ThinkstockFriday’s nonfarm payroll number was a pleasant surprise. However, for real growth to return we need to consistently add 250,000 jobs per month. Our economy is sluggish at best, and corporate profit margins are…