ThinkstockCredit Suisse has reviewed and screened the holdings of 857 large cap mutual funds and has seen that technology is very well represented in the top holdings on average at this universe of funds.…
Chelsea Therapeutics International Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHTP) is rallying on Wednesday after a report in Seeking Alpha called its Northera, a treatment for symptomatic neurogenic hypotension in Parkinson’s patients, a shoe-in for approval, along with the note…
ThinkstockOn Thursday at 8:30 a.m. EST, we will get the second revision to the fourth-quarter 2012 gross domestic product (GDP). This is considered the final revision, and Wall St. economists are expecting the numbers to…
Investors Intelligence has its weekly sentiment showing that bullish sentiment rose, with the financial advisory professionals who are bullish rising to 49.5% from 47.4% the prior week. Bearish sentiment also rose, but that was only…
courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.Is it possible that J.C. Penney Co. (NYSE: JCP) is reaching a bottom as far as its stock price is concerned? It seems hard to believe, but something unusual has…
ThinkstockAccording to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), more than one-third (35.7%) of all adults in the United States are obese. Obesity-related medical conditions include heart attack, stroke, type-2 diabetes and even certain types…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Tuesday, March 27, 2013. They include AOL, Bed Bath & Beyond,General Mills, Google and Oracle.
ThinkstockThe journey to any gambling and entertainment mecca is an experience that even non-gamblers often want to put in their travel bucket list. Located off the Chinese coast on the South China Sea, the…
Thinkstock24/7 Wall St. is reviewing ETF strategies, nuances and trends with regularity, and we cannot help but to wonder about the so-called hedged international exchange traded funds (ETFs). These hedged ETFs are outperforming right…
ThinkstockThe short interest in the actively traded low-priced stocks and cult stocks saw some significant changes since the end of February, with more bets against these companies on the rise. We compared the March…
Short sellers have kept their attack up against the high-dividend stocks, perhaps indicating that many investors believe that the bull market may turn back toward growth rather than paying a higher premium for income.…
thinkstockIt would be the understatement of the year or the decade to simply say that the Eagle Ford Shale oil and gas region is making people rich. In fact, it is fairly easy to…
ThinkstockDollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) is becoming less and less leveraged and is getting further and further away from its old private equity umbrella. Oh, and now it is considered “Investment Grade” at Moody’s…
ThinkstockPresident Francois Hollande is having a rough time of living up to his labor promises if you read into the unemployment rate in France. The jobless rate rose for what is now going on…
Normally we would not care so much about a 2-year Treasury Note offering. When you consider that the rate is a massively high 0.25% or so (can you smell the enthusiasm?), it is a…
thinkstockLDK Solar Co. Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) remains a very challenged company. This is to the point that the Chinese solar players is raising cash yet again in an amount that is small enough that you might…
ThinkstockWe cannot help but to notice just how active the activist investor community has been. Activist investors are literally influencing hundreds of billions of dollars of value in companies right now. The latest acceleration…
courtesy of Netflix Inc.If Wall St. got way too bullish and then way too bearish on one stock, it would be Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX). Analysts and investors chased it all the way up,…
Flickr, Images of MoneyThe housing data keeps rolling in stronger and stronger for the U.S. economy. What is at issue is whether investors should keep paying up and up for housing stocks. Rather than…
ThinkstockThe Conference Board is out with its March 2013 reading of consumer confidence. This is much broader than the “sentiment” report from the University of Michigan, but it is also released later in the…