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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Apple, BP, Cree, Etsy, Facebook, KLA, Lyft, Southwest Air, Starbucks, Tesla, Yum! and More

Posted: October 31, 2019 at 9:04 am

Stocks were taking a breather on profit-taking on Thursday after the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates the prior day. The S&P 500 hit all-time highs this week, and economic readings ...
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Why Semiconductor Capital Equipment Stocks Could Roar Again in 2020

Posted: October 25, 2019 at 6:55 am

After another stellar year for semiconductors and for the capital equipment stocks, many on Wall Street felt that both industries were due for a big-time breather. Given the trade issues ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Alcoa, Apple, Ciena, Cisco, Dave & Buster’s, GameStop, Hilton, Newmont Goldcorp, RH, Square, Zscaler and More

Posted: September 11, 2019 at 9:00 am

Stocks have been volatile, but the major indexes were last seen trading up about 0.2% on average on Wednesday. With all the volatility in the stock market, and considering that ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Anheuser-Busch, Arch Coal, BHP, Cars.com, Cigna, FireEye, Ford, 3M, Northrop Grumman, Take-Two, T-Mobile and More

Posted: August 6, 2019 at 9:05 am

Stocks were indicated to open sharply higher on Tuesday, but this was after a huge drop on Monday as the U.S./China trade war was kicked up a notch or two. ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades: AMD, Amazon, Autodesk, Charles Schwab, Intel, Micron, Regions Financial, Stitch Fix, Uber and More

Posted: July 22, 2019 at 8:50 am

Stocks were indicated to open slightly higher on the prospects of better earnings on Monday, even with oil up as tensions with Iran rise. Despite some profit-taking and some of ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Adobe, Apple, Bloom Energy, CommScope, Dell, HP, Oracle, Shopify, Tesla and More

Posted: June 20, 2019 at 8:48 am

Stocks were indicated to open stronger on Thursday with a move of more than 200 points on the Dow and 25 points on the S&P 500 after Jerome Powell and ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Anadarko, Apple, Charter, Disney, Geron, KLA-Tencor, PVH, SAP, US Steel and More

Posted: April 9, 2019 at 8:55 am

Stocks were looking at a softer open on Tuesday after a very mixed bag on Monday when the Dow Jones industrials closed down with Boeing's drag but while the S&P ...
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Will a Weak DRAM Market in 2019 Cast a Shadow on the Entire Semiconductor Industry?

Posted: March 27, 2019 at 11:20 am

The decline in the technology sector was broad and swift at the end of 2018. A major market recovery has allowed technology stocks to recover handily as well. With the ...
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Merrill Lynch Says Now’s Your Chance to Buy 4 Semiconductor Giants

Posted: November 5, 2018 at 7:45 am

For years, the semiconductors were big sector leaders, and with good reason. The increase in uses for a wide variety of chips in everything from cars to industrial to video ...
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Merrill Lynch Says Buy These 5 Out-of-Favor Tech Stocks Now

Posted: September 24, 2018 at 9:25 am

When you see the kind of gains that have been printed for people long Amazon or Google, it makes you incredibly mad you didn’t jump in sooner. The bottom line ...
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Thursday’s Biggest Winners and Losers in the S&P 500

Posted: September 6, 2018 at 4:08 pm

September 6, 2018: The S&P 500 closed down 0.4% at 2,878.11. The DJIA closed flat at 25,995.94. Separately, the Nasdaq was down 0.9% at 7,922.73. Thursday was a down day ...
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Semiconductor Capital Equipment Sector Still Has Too Much Bull Market Hope

Posted: September 6, 2018 at 12:20 pm

Investors are often concerned about the stock market in September, and the investment community is getting another look ahead at the lack of strength in the semiconductor capital equipment segment. Presenting ...
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Merrill Lynch Worries More About Semiconductor Capital Equipment Leaders

Posted: August 28, 2018 at 11:20 am

For the past few years, the semiconductor industries have been red hot and the top stocks were all but unstoppable. But this earnings season showed some weakness in a few ...
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5 Unusual Earnings Winners

Posted: July 31, 2018 at 12:50 pm

We are in the heart of this earnings reporting season, and it is not just the big stocks on the move. Some smaller and mid-cap stocks were making massive moves ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Applied Materials, BioCryst, Costco, Generac, Goodyear, Intel, Microsoft, Netflix and More

Posted: July 17, 2018 at 9:15 am

Stocks were marginally lower on Tuesday after investors took a bite out of the FANG stocks. Investors have had less faith and lower rewards by buying the dips in 2018 ...
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