July 18, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning after the report on new jobless claims in the U.S. came in better than expected. In Europe, Greece agreed to fire another…
courtesy Boeing Co.Last week’s fire in an unoccupied Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) 787 Dreamliner at London’s Heathrow airport apparently has been traced to a malfunction in the aircraft’s emergency locator transmitter. The U.K.’s…
ThinkstockThe second quarter of 2013 for many industrial stocks was stubbornly soft. With difficult year-over-year comparisons, and the economy both here and abroad struggling to gain traction, many of the top industrial…
courtesy Boeing Co.The stock and bond markets are anticipatory. Witness the sharp rise in interest rates when the Federal Reserve has not even tapered its bond buying program, let alone raised key…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning as the DJIA was slammed by a number of weak earnings reports both last night and before markets opened this morning. The was no economic…
U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning following the report on U.S. jobless numbers (more coverage here). In Europe, the only data out today showed that U.K. retail sales fell 0.7%,…
The first-quarter earning season begins today with the quarterly ritual of perennial lousy, or at least lackluster, earnings leading off the deluge of reports, from aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA). Investors…
Typically, large Wall St. firms suggest a broad asset allocation portfolio for their clients. Within the portfolio, they use a designated weighting for each stock that makes the cut. For the individual…
We have reported recently that despite many calls of an “aging” four-year bull market, what we have experienced since the market lows of March 2009 has been a cyclical bull market within…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning and trailed slowly downward all day. The situation in Cyprus was unchanged this morning (more coverage here). In Europe, both manufacturing and non-manufacturing PMI fell…
Jon OggInvestors and traders seem to constantly look for new good research-driven ideas for stocks to buy and for stocks to sell. Some of these come from independent research firms and some…
ThinkstockAs the country slowly has emerged from the gut-wrenching recession of 2008 and 2009, several industries have helped to lead the recovery. We have covered in great detail not only the reemergence of…
courtesy of the Walt Disney Co.You know it is a bull market when you see major household names hitting 52-week highs. Right now we have many major stocks hitting fresh all-time highs!…
The markets may no longer be in a straight line higher, but 2013 is off to a great start. After taking a look at various Dow Jones Industrial Average components and after…
ThinkstockLast month we wrote about the huge rally in the homebuilding stocks since the lows of the stock market in March of 2009. Stocks that were written off for dead like Lennar…
