thinkstockDecember 10, 2014: Markets opened lower on Wednesday as the energy sector had no good news from overseas and none as the day went on. Telecom stocks were also beaten up. The…
thinkstockDecember 8, 2014: Markets opened lower on Monday after Japan reported a lower-than-expected revision to third-quarter GDP and the European Central Bank does not appear to have any interest in quantitative easing.…
thinkstockDecember 3, 2014: Markets opened mixed on Wednesday after the morning report on non-farm payrolls from ADP came in lower than expected. The Fed released its monthly Beige Book in the afternoon,…
thinkstockDecember 1, 2014: Markets opened lower on Monday following weak reports on PMI from both Asia and Europe. After tumbling to a five-year low crude oil prices ended the session up 4%…
thinkstockNovember 21, 2014: Markets opened sharply higher on Friday and managed to close on the positive side after gradually declining for most of the day. China’s central bank cut its deposit rate…
Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Amazon.com, Best Buy, Caterpillar, EMC, JetBlue, Intel and Microsoft.
24/7 Wall St. wanted to capture the Dow stocks that have been the best performing of this past month and since the V-bottom.
thinkstockNovember 6, 2014: Markets opened slightly higher on Thursday but all three major indexes shortly sank into the red before turning positive by mid-morning. Natural gas, crude oil, and precious metals traded…
thinkstockNovember 3, 2014: Markets opened slightly higher on Monday as the blue chip indexes started the week sluggishly. Crude oil prices dropped below $80 a barrel again following news that Saudi Arabia…
October 2thinkstock9, 2014: Markets opened mixed on Wednesday with the blue chips higher and the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite lower. The Nasdaq traded lower all day and the other two indexes dropped below…
thinkstockOctober 28, 2014: Markets opened higher on Tuesday on the first day of the 2-day FOMC meeting which concludes on Wednesday with an announcement on interest rates. Economic data was generally positive…
thinkstockOctober 27, 2014: Markets opened lower on Monday as traders hit back at Brazilian voters who re-elected Dilma Rousseff as the country’s leader. Also, over the weekend the European Central Bank revealed…
thinkstockOctober 23, 2014: Markets opened higher on Thursday following on reports of better than expected manufacturing PMI readings from China, Japan, and the eurozone. Solid earnings reports from two big names on…
Caterpillar reported better-than-expected third-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Thursday morning.
Paul Ausick Caterpillar is set to report its earnings Thursday before the market opens and declines on the top and bottom lines are expected.
Chris Lange 
