starwars.comIt was back on October 30, 2012 that we first covered how The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) was getting a steal by acquiring the wonderful Star Wars franchise from George Lucas for a…
courtesy of DellDell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) may have a new activist investor in the fray. CNBC’s David Faber has now reported that Carl Icahn has reportedly taken a stake of close to 100 million…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe news of the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting new highs this week is certainly good news. The problem is that the news comes with some serious caveats. We just…
If you don’t know the old punchline, “Hey, It’s your turn in the barrel today!” you might not fully understand how badly we view the news out of American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG)…
thinkstockExxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) was just featured as one of our seven DJIA stocks that would lead the DJIA to 15,000 and the company is delivering its production and capital spending estimates to…
ThinkstockThe Commerce Department has released its factory orders figures for the month of January showing a drop of -2.0%. If you back out transportation, the gain would have actually been 1.3%, and if you…
courtesy Best Buy Co. Inc.All industries in American business change and evolve over time. In some cases it is due to technological change, internal change within the specific industry, changes in consumer sentiment or…
Jon OggThese are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) started as Outperform at Leerink Swann. Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE:…
ThinkstockThere is a big difference between a market rally and a bull market. Bear market rallies often happen when the stock market is so oversold that short sellers or deep value investors feel they…
ThinkstockIt was just on Tuesday that we showed how so many jobs reports are coming out this week that could change the consensus for Friday’s key unemployment and payrolls report from the Labor Department. The…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new high this week, and the new closing high is 14,253.77. We originally came up with a top price target for the DJIA of 14,590 for 2013…
You already have seen the positive earnings report from Sturm, Ruger & Co. (NYSE: RGR) and positive comments from sporting goods stores about gun and ammo sales. Now we have Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (NASDAQ:…
ThinkstockWe are now within ten days of the release of the Federal Reserve’s new round of stress tests on how the nation’s largest banks will do if (or when) the economy goes back into…
ThinkstockThis is an unusual month because, due to a strange calendar in February, the monthly employment situation report by the U.S. Labor Department did not come on the first Friday of the month. This…
Jon Ogg24/7 Wall St. is tracking the highly unusual volume increases in shares today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new all-time high today, but the volume on these news bits is taking…
ThinkstockThere will be yet two more exchange-traded products for investors to get exposure to the gold or silver market. These feel like “me too” products at this point but let’s hold off on that…
ThinkstockNymox Pharmaceutical Corp. (NASDAQ: NYMX) took a mystery beating last Friday, to the point that a single stock circuit breaker was triggered for a halt. The company said that it had no news nor any material…
ThinkstockIt was just in recent days that we saw Apollo Group Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL) warn in an SEC filing that its regulator and accreditation board put the company’s prior “notice” status to a formal…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has now hit a new high, and it did it on a day where there is actually very little news acting as the driving force. The prior closing high was…
ThinkstockRadian Group Inc. (NYSE: RDN) has been on fire and shares are ticking up yet again on Tuesday. It has risen for eight consecutive trading days, and if Tuesday’s preliminary gains can hold then it…