ThinkstockGeneral Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is set to report earnings early Friday morning before the open. The latest Thomson Reuters consensus was $0.43 EPS on revenue of about $38.7 billion. If GE details its guidance…
Wikimedia CommonsIntel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) was up by 2% going into earnings today, in part led by a new leak on Bloomberg at the end of the trading day that came out right before…
thinkstockDespite reasonably consistent oil prices and an increasingly favorable overall tolerance for risk, the oil service sector had an ugly year in 2012. After a disastrous first half of the year the sector rallied…
ThinkstockThe banking sector has by and large traded at a discount to its stated book value for quite some time. Many banks are still trading under their tangible book value, meaning that the banks…
Jon OggArgus Research, an independent equity research firm open since 1934, has issued a series of changes to its model portfolios now, as we are still in the early part of the year. This…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department is out with its weekly jobless claims and the news looks rather good on the surface. In fact, if this can be repeated for two more weeks, it is very…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen so far from Wall St. research calls this Thursday: ADTRAN Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) cut to Sell at UBS but raised to Neutral…
ThinkstockAfter a strong year of relative performance for pharmaceutical stocks in 2012, the analysts at Jefferies Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF) predict that 2013 could show more of the same. However they are careful to…
ThinkstockWe recently did a story on stocks that perform well in a rising interest rate environment, a scenario that appears set up to be in play down the road. For the time being, the…
thinkstockCBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) is getting high marks so far after the company disclosed details of what is nothing short of a total reorganization of the company. Most investors know of CBS by the national…
courtesy of ebayeBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) has reported its fourth quarter earnings. The near-monopoly in online auctions in the U.S. reported earnings of $0.70 EPS and an 18% gain to $3.99 billion in revenue.…
ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve is out with yet one more tome telling you about how it sees the U.S. and global economy. Its latest summary showed that economic activity has expanded and all districts in…
ThinkstockMany investors follow and track inflows and outflows of investor funds. After all, following the trends where the money is headed is nothing new. But what about not worrying about all of the money…
Vice President Biden and President Obama have now publicly spoken about what the nation’s new efforts on gun control will look like. What we at 24/7 Wall St. have maintained this entire time since the…
courtesy of Groupon Inc.Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) is a company that can use any bit of good news that it can get. Is allowing merchants to track how well their “Groupon” daily deals are doing…
ThinkstockA report this week from the American Society of Civil Engineers shows just how bad the state of infrastructure in the United States is and how much spending is needed in the next decade…
ThinkstockARM Holdings PLC (NASDAQ: ARMH) had been on one major move to the upside, right up until the past few days. We would note that this mobile processing outfit from Britain is still up almost…
ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve has released data showing that industrial production and capacity utilization rates both rose in December. When you consider that the entire media and business focus was around the coming fiscal cliff…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsMany stocks are on the move this Wednesday morning and we are covering some of the key winners and losers for our readers. Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) is trading lower…
Investors saw a slew of economic data on Tuesday, and in that data was a reading that wholesale inflation was under control. That should have put fears aside that inflation might tick up for…