Investors often hear about analyst upgrades and new “Buy” ratings. What they do not hear from most Wall Street analysts is the prediction that a stock price could double or come close…
ThinkstockConsumer purchasing comprises almost 70% of the gross domestic product calculation. With a rising stock market and home values increasing, consumers are feeling better in 2013 than they have felt in years. This…
ThinkstockWhile the U.S. and Asian markets have had strong starts to the 2013 trading year, global equities as a whole have faced some headwinds over the past month. Many of the struggles…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following a number of disappointing data releases in Europe and Asia. Eurozone PMI remains on the pessimistic side, with a reading of 47.9, and the…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning as the federal budget sequester appears to be set to go into effect tomorrow. Global data releases were also mixed. In Europe, the consumer price…
ThinkstockWith ICR XChange, one of the world’s largest consumer symposiums, coming up this week in Miami, we thought it would be a good time to take a look at consumer stocks. There is…
U.S. equity markets opened about flat this morning, then ticked upward briefly before moving to lows in the early afternoon. Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner said that the country’s debt ceiling will be…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning as last Friday’s Moody’s downgrade of the European Stability Mechanism and the European Financial Stability Fund were overridden by a PMI reading for the eurozone…
The stock market is up Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.03%, the Nasdaq up 0.40% and the S&P 500 up 0.19%. Today’s biggest winners both received upgrades by prominent investment banks,…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Monday. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) reiterated Buy with $800 target and raised estimates at…
ThinkstockAs hard as retailers, both online and in the real world, compete for sales over the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend, so to do online and research firms compete to see which can…
ThinkstockDeckers Outdoor Corp. (NASDAQ: DECK) is trading higher on Monday after takeover chatter has been out in the stock. Our question is not really AT WHAT PRICE?… We want to know if…
Jon C. Ogg The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning and have wavered around the break-even line all day. European markets got things off to a slow start with concerns about Spain’s…
We have many stocks on the move in the after-hours session. Today was the largest day for S&P earnings this earnings season. Some of these volume spikes are massive. Acme Packet, Inc.…
The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning following European Central Bank president Mario Draghi’s promise to “do whatever it takes to preserve the euro” (our coverage here). What he…
