Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsWednesday brought the week having all three days with a gain or a loss of triple-digits during the day in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Bank earnings were…
Jon OggWe are now well past the end of 2013, and many strategists have mixed targets for the stock and bond markets in 2014. The last year brought gains of 26.5% in…
Now that a stellar 2013 has come to an end, 24/7 Wall St. has generated a bullish and bearish scenario for 2014 in each stock of the Dow. This leaves up for…
Jon C. Ogg The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up nearly 26% so far this year. While the index, which consists of stocks of 30 major U.S. companies, is a widely followed indicator of the…
thinkstockDecember 24, 2013: Markets opened higher on a shortened Tuesday trading day. The Nasdaq bounced lower a few times in the first 90 minutes of trading, but soon enough sorted itself out.…
thinkstockDecember 23, 2013: Markets opened higher on Monday and remained well above the flat line all day. More opportunistic buying among value seekers probably gets the credit for the index increases on…
thinkstockDecember 20, 2013: Markets opened higher on Friday following the announcement that third-quarter GDP was up by 4.1%, much better than the previous reading of an increase of 3.6%. The tech sector…
ThinkstockWe can’t say we weren’t warned. When Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) reported third-quarter results in October, the company slashed its guidance for the second time this year. When the company released its…
Paul Ausick thinkstockDecember 16, 2013: Markets opened higher on Monday morning following better than expected economic data on productivity and industrial production. The Empire State manufacturing index missed expectations, but came in higher than…
Here we are in to the final month of what has been a tremendous year for the stock market, and the 24/7 staff is reviewing what the major Wall Street firms are…
ThinkstockThere is a trend at the end of each year followed by many income investors. This is the Dogs of the Dow, which is simply made up of the 10 Dow Jones…
ThinkstockThe stock market has enjoyed what is now eight weeks of gains and new highs in just about each of those weeks. Now investors have to be considering how to position their…
As the stock market is challenging all-time highs around a holiday week, investors have to be considering how to position their portfolios and assets for 2014 and beyond. 24/7 Wall St. has…
Jon OggIt is the Monday ahead of Thanksgiving, the markets are at new highs, and earnings season is over for the most part. Now investors have to consider research ideas on how…
ThinkstockRobust export gains played an important role earlier in this economic cycle by lifting factory output and employment. However, this tailwind to growth subsequently entered a phase of steady deceleration from mid-2010…
