ThinkstockA bad day for Wall Street’s only gotten worse in the afternoon, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) has led a precipitous market slide by shedding more than 160 points,…
Home Depot reported mixed first-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Tuesday morning, citing a slow start to the spring selling season. Shares were down in premarket trading.
ThinkstockThis week will mark perhaps the beginning of the end of the corporate earnings season. We still have many earnings coming out, particularly in retail. Dow Jones Industrial Average component Home Depot…
thinkstockMay 16, 2014: Markets opened lower on Friday and bounced around the break-even line until about 3 p.m., when the direction turned decidedly positive. The 10-year Treasury yield rose a couple of…
thinkstockMay 14, 2014: Markets opened lower on Wednesday after another record setting day yesterday. The yield on 10-year Treasuries fell as demand for safety prevailed. Among equities, utilities did well but it…
thinkstockMay 9, 2014: Markets opened mixed on Friday and wobbled along all day to finish with a small gain. Tech stocks got a burst of support in the last half-hour of trading…
thinkstockMay 6, 2014: Markets opened lower on Monday and sank slowly and surely for the rest of the day. The dollar weakened against the yen overnight removing some enthusiasm for risk in…
thinkstockApril 23 2014: Markets opened lower on Wednesday following the worst report on new home sales since last July. Profit-taking seemed to be the order of the day in the tech sector…
April 22 20thinkstock14: Markets opened higher on Tuesday on strength in the healthcare sector following Valeant’s proposal to acquire Allergan for around $46 billion. Another sector that kept the markets on the…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations for Tuesday, April 22, 2014. They include AMD, ARM Holdings, Barrick Gold, Netflix, Teva Pharmaceutical and Valero Energy.
ThinkstockRetailers are announcing March U.S. same-store sales figures Thursday. Research firm Retail Metrics projected an overall gain of 2.5% year-over-year. Retail sales gained just 1.4% in March of 2013, excluding drug store…
ThinkstockInvestors who own consumer discretionary stocks have been battered this year. The sector is down 4.53% and is the worst overall performer in the S&P. After being a market leader the past…
thinkstockMarch 24, 2014: Markets opened slightly higher on Monday but soon took a turn south and spent most of the day solidly down. Biotechs, healthcare, discretionary, and tech stocks were all weaker…
ThinkstockIt’s not really Black Friday, but Black Friday Lite. Some of the country’s biggest retailers have chosen this weekend, just a day after the first day of Spring, to promote “Black Friday-like”…
Bank of America Merrill Lynch is defending Home Depot. What stands out here is not just that the firm is reiterating its Buy rating, but that it is calling for Home Depot…
Jon C. Ogg 
