ThinkstockPriceline.com Inc. (NASDAQ: PCLN) is rising into 2013 after having seen its shares pull back handily from highs in 2012. The culprit on Thursday is an upgrade from Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. The firm…
ThinkstockByron Wien announced his predictions for 10 big surprises for 2013 this week to kick off the new year. Wien is now vice chairman at Blackstone Advisory Partners, and this was his 28th year…
ThinkstockAmerican Tower Corp. (NYSE: AMT) and SBA Communications Corp. (NASDAQ: SBAC) have enjoyed significant gains over the past year. Actually, make that the past three years. The growth of data usage has outpaced the…
thinkstockWith a down to the wire timing that has become a tradition in Washington D.C., the House and the Senate approved what is being called the The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012. While…
ThinkstockBiogen Idec Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB) is living up to why we just said it is now an overvalued biotech stock for 2013. Biogen Idec and the other biotech giants had risen perhaps too much in 2012, and…
ThinkstockThe Labor Department is out with its first weekly jobless claims report in 2013, and this is the last look from the government data ahead of Friday’s key unemployment report. With seasonal issues due…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall St. research firms this Thursday. Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (NYSE: ALU) raised to Neutral from Sell at Credit Suisse. Bank of…
Jon Ogg24/7 Wall St. has already 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…
Late Wednesday, Jefferies Group Inc. (NYSE: JEF) added three new domestic names to its Global Conviction buy list. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Celanese Corp. (NYSE: CE) and HMS Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: HMSY) were all added…
As each new year arrives, 24/7 Wall St. looks at each of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average components and assigns a forward value for the Dow based on a mixed methodology. We have…
24/7 Wall St. has compiled an outlook from many sectors and for many indexes for 2013. Most strategists and economists are calling for upside. However, the fiscal cliff remains an issue in the final days…
ThinkstockShort sellers have changed their bets in the high-dividend stocks now that the taxes are almost certain to change in this sector. We are seeing the bets against some of these great companies now…
ThinkstockThe Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims, and the good news is that we saw another drop. The bad news is that this time of year is often considered a wash because…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Thursday. With this being the week of Christmas, analyst upgrades and downgrades are likely going…
courtesy of Hewlett-PackardMost investors know about the Dogs of the Dow as the five stocks from the 30 DJIA components with the highest common stock dividend yields. There is unfortunately a list that is…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Dogs of the Dow are measured out each year simply as the five highest common stock dividend yields among the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s 30 components. We have another…
ThinkstockManufacturing activity in the central Atlantic region rose again, making it the second month of increases. The Richmond Federal Reserve Bank’s latest manufacturing survey came in at 5 for the month of December. The…
ThinkstockInternational Data Corporation (IDC) has projected that global semiconductor revenues will be up by less than 1% in 2012, reaching about $304 billion. That is not good. The growth for 2013 is now being…
ThinkstockThis data may not seem as fresh as an unemployment report, but housing prices actually fell in October versus September. The good news is that this is largely due to seasonal weakness. The bad…
ThinkstockThis past year was not really a great one for initial public offerings. After all, the Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) debacle of an IPO took about $40 billion of market value out of the…