This week marks the official opening of earnings season for the fourth quarter, and this will also mark a prelude and guidance factory for what investors are to expect in 2015.
thinkstockJanuary 9, 2015: Markets opened lower on Friday after the government’s report on payrolls revealed good news (unemployment rate fell to 5.6%) and bad news (wages shrunk 0.2%). Oil traded lower today…
One key consideration for the year ahead is that J.P. Morgan is now past its trading losses and charge-off scandals. Also, Jamie Dimon is now believed to be healthy and cancer-free.
thinkstockJanuary 8, 2015: Markets opened higher on Thursday following Wednesday comments from Charles Evans of the Chicago Fed that raising the policy rate too soon would be a “catastrophe.” European markets traded…
Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls includes Alcatel-Lucent, ADM, Bank of America, Chesapeake Energy, Google, J.P. Morgan and MGM.
thinkstockJanuary 6, 2015: Markets opened higher on Tuesday but by mid-morning all three major indexes had tumbled below the break-even line. Once again, falling prices for crude oil and concern over what…
Oppenheimer has released a very positive report for three of America's four largest banks. The firm continues to believe that bank stocks are modestly undervalued and should outperform modestly.
thinkstockJanuary 5, 2015: Markets opened lower on Monday and things go worse and worse as the day went on. Crude oil traded below $50 a barrel briefly and Citi lowered its rating…
thinkstockDecember 28, 2014: Markets opened lower on Monday as neither the bulls nor the bears can gin up a lot of support. Volumes are low and corporate news is nearly non-existent. Crude…
24/7 Wall St. has compiled a group of the five cheapest Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks, based on earnings expected in 2015.
thinkstockDecember 10, 2014: Markets opened lower on Wednesday as the energy sector had no good news from overseas and none as the day went on. Telecom stocks were also beaten up. The…
A new research report from Deutsche Bank says that investors may want to focus on the large-cap, market-sensitive banks, as they may perform the best in the near term.
Aramark has been public a year now, and a new filing shows that the private equity backers intend to lock in some of their gains.
thinkstockDecember 2, 2014: Markets opened higher on Tuesday as the energy sector managed to regain some of Monday’s lost ground. Crude oil prices didn’t keep pace, however, slipping to around $67 a…
A new report from Baird says the best strategy for investors is to buy banks that don’t need macro economic improvement to meet current earnings estimates for next year.
