ThinkstockThere are big movers in the market just about every day, and these movers often come from biotech and other emerging health care winners and losers. The daily direction of the broad market does…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThis week kicks off yet another earnings season, this time for the fourth quarter of 2012. The best thing that will come from earnings is that expectations for 2013 and…
courtesy of NBN at German WikipediaIf there is one sector of the stock market that consistently draws scrutiny, it is big tobacco. After all, it is always under the threat of punitive action from…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is still heading to $750, or at least that is what Canaccord Genuity is targeting. The firm’s T. Michael Walkley has maintained a Buy rating on the…
24/7 Wall St. has identified its 2013 peak target for the Dow Jones Industrial Average of 14,590, which would translate to gains of more than 11.3% for investors. What is interesting is the breakdown…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall St. research firms this Monday. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) maintained Buy with $750 price target at Canaccord Genuity. Applied…
Just over one month ago we made the case that perhaps the best short since the heyday of the subprime mortgage debacle may be on the horizon. Our December 5 story identifying the biggest…
Jeffrey Lacker, President of the Richmond Federal Reserve, is out with what are becoming more and more routine comments talking about dissension inside the Federal Reserve. Lacker is consistently the one voice against continued…
Being disappointed with work or being disappointed with corporate America is really not nothing new. The degree to how much certain members of the public will go to voice their opinion is sometimes funny and…
Interest rates are nearly zero and the Federal Reserve has pledged to keep them that way until unemployment reaches 6.5% and as long as inflation does not get to a level that would be…
ThinkstockThere is a new exchange-traded product in the world of Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs). We would caution investors that this is an exchange traded note rather than an exchange traded fund. Today’s launch of…
ThinkstockThe services sector is improving. Today’s report from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) for December rose to 56.1%. Bloomberg was calling for 54.5% and Dow Jones was looking for only 54.0%. The November…
ThinkstockFor years tech investors eagerly awaited each new quarter to determine yet again how much Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) was dominating the semiconductor industry. The explosive growth of personal computers (PCs) followed by that…
24/7 Wall St. has identified its 2013 peak target for the Dow Jones Industrial Average of 14,590, which would translate to gains of more than 11.3% for investors. What is interesting is the breakdown…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Labor Department is out with the December 2012 unemployment rate and with the payrolls report. Unemployment rose to 7.8% in December, and November was revised to 7.8% from…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research firms this Friday. Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (NYSE: BK) cut to Neutral at Citigroup. Cepheid…
Every Wall St. firm has a lengthy list of Buy-rated stocks. Analysts in the various sectors the firm covers are asked from time to time to present to the director of research their absolute…
It may seem hard to believe, but some stocks are expected to rise by 50%, 100%, or even more over the next year. Our own DJIA peak price target is up 11.3% at 14,590,…
courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveThe Federal Open Market Committee has released its minutes of the December 2012 FOMC meeting. Without regurgitating the entire report, the minutes appear to be a bit more cautious regarding easing…
ThinkstockYou gotta eat (and drink)! If investors follow their mouths in 2013 there are some handy rewards headed their way. That is the opinion of Bank of America/Merrill Lynch after it released its report…