Monday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades included Darden Restaurants, Foot Locker, Gap, Kellogg, Moderna, Philip Morris International, Prologis, Rockwell Automation and Texas Roadhouse.
Wednesday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades included AbbVie, American Electric Power, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Arconic, Baidu, Best Buy, Co-Diagnostics, Cree, Exelon, Home Depot, NRG Energy, T-Mobile and Walmart.
What the current climate is dictating is that investors need to be mindful of value. Chasing growth endlessly in a low-growth environment can be costly.
Tuesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Alkermes, Cisco Systems, Gap, Rackspace, SouFun and Verizon Communications.
ThinkstockOctober 27, 2014: Here are four stocks among the 91 equities making new 52-week lows today. Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE: BTU) dropped about 4.7% today to post a new 52-week low of…
The outcome of the elections in Brazil are tamping down commodity prices in a serious way.
ThinkstockOctober 23, 2014: Here are four stocks among the 62 equities making new 52-week lows today. Allied Nevada Gold Corp. (NYSEMKT: ANV) dropped about 4.3% today to post a new 52-week low…
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The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning as European markets responded positively to reports that Greece is less likely to leave the eurozone. There was also speculation that China…
After 30 years of payments to farmers and blenders, the federal subsidy on corn-based ethanol expired when Congress adjourned last week without taking any action to renew the payments. A cynic might…
It seems that all of the nations around the world are facing sovereign credit ratings downgrades or warnings of downgrades. After the United States lost its prized “AAA” rating, the threat of downgrades hangs over…
What will happen to ethanol makers when the US subsidy ends in December, as appears increasingly likely? Bunge Ltd. (NYSE: BG) apparently believes that demand will continue strong, at least in Brazil…
The writing has been on the wall for about three weeks: the $0.45/gallon ethanol subsidy and the $0.54/gallon tariff on imports are politically dead. Another nail got hammered into the coffin yesterday…
The US Senate, by a 73-27 margin, has approved an amendment to an economic development bill that would end the $0.45/gallon ethanol credit and the $0.54/gallon tariff on imported ethanol. A similar…
Today’s commodities news centers on the more than -4% drop in WTI crude oil prices which has led to a broad sell-off in most other commodities. This was a day where if…
