Wall St. analyst calls very frequently are directional. In short, they tend to upgrade or downgrade stocks in the same manner because they theoretically have access to the same information. That is not the…
ThinkstockThe report on durable goods for the month of March is turning out to not be too durable. This is a highly volatile reading because it involves so many big ticket items from airlines to…
Investors and traders are always on the lookout for fresh research ideas from Wall St. that will lead to higher income or more profits. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many fresh research calls to find…
Jon OggInvestors frequently get to see the analyst upgrades and Buy ratings from Wall St. firms. They often do not get to see or they overlook the analyst downgrades and lists of stocks to…
courtesy of AppleApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is out with its second quarter corporate earnings report for fiscal 2013. The consumer electronics giant has been under more than just a bit of pressure due to…
ThinkstockIs it possible that the great big bank stock rally is already done? Shortly before the closing bell on Tuesday came words of warning from Fitch Ratings that the U.S. banking sector’s improved results…
ThinkstockHack attacks continue with the DJIA and S&P 500 Index suddenly losing all of their gains on the day only to briefly recover. The result came from a hack of the AP Twitter feed,…
Jon OggStocks have enjoyed a serious bull market, and we still have the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average both up by double digits so far in 2013. As this is…
ThinkstockSenator Max Baucus from Montana has chosen to retire from the U.S. Senate and will not run for election again in 2014. This matters as Baucus is one of the top Democratic senators who…
Another weak reading was issued from yet another regional Federal Reserve Bank. The Richmond Fed reading fell sharply to -6 in April, versus a reading of 3 in March. Bloomberg had a consensus reading set…
ThinkstockRackspace Hosting Inc. (NYSE: RAX) has been an incredible story of growth from remote storage. Now that the share price of Rackspace has come back down to earth, we wanted to take a look…
ThinkstockThe U.S. flash manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) was released for April by the group Markit on Tuesday morning. The bad news is that the numbers were lower, but the good news is that growth,…
ThinkstockGermany is supposed to be the cement that makes up the foundation of the euro. Maybe France is the mortar that holds together the bricks. So how stable is the euro when all the…
Investors and traders are on the lookout for fresh research ideas from Wall St. that will lead to higher income or more profits. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many fresh research calls to find great…
Jon OggInvestors often get to see many Buy ratings from Wall St. analysts, but they often do not see when these analysts give lists of stocks to sell nor when the analysts have very cautious comments about…
courtesy of Netflix Inc.Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) was on the earnings calendar docket for Monday and the streaming media giant reported earnings of $0.31 EPS and $1.02 billion in revenue. Thomson Reuters had its…
ThinkstockCopper is one of the metals that really matters at the street level of the global economy. The price of gold is much more exciting about the price of copper, but copper is used…
ThinkstockThe news flow over the weekend and on Monday helped to drive the price of gold higher after one monster sell-off this year. Reports of spot gold shortages and premiums being paid after the…
courtesy of MicrosoftManagement inside Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) may be happy to see that their shares are worth more than 3%, versus when they went home for the weekend on Friday. CNBC’s David Faber…
courtesy of NetflixNetflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is on the earnings calendar after the markets close on Monday, and the trading community is on edge for this earnings report. With a huge turnaround and with…