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As Stock Market Hits All-Time Highs, Investors Bailing Out of Defensive Strategies

Posted: November 7, 2019 at 12:00 pm

With news that a phase-one trade deal with China is closer, with tariffs being rolled back, U.S. equities hit all-time highs. The major equity indexes are now less than 1% ...
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8 Secondary Stock Offerings Total Up to $3 Billion That Has to Be Sold

Posted: September 4, 2019 at 5:11 pm
Last updated: September 5, 2019 6:16 am

The financial markets cannot be all that worried about geopolitics and trade uncertainties if investors were to focus only on the raw number of dollars that is being targeted for ...
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15 Top Defensive Stocks for the Next Recession at Sky-High Valuations

Posted: August 22, 2019 at 8:25 am
Last updated: August 26, 2019 10:13 am

With a bull market that is now well over 10 years old, and with a global economy that is facing slower growth ahead, many investors are wondering how they should ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: AMD, Apple, Barrick Gold, Domino’s, Intel, McDonald’s, Occidental, Salesforce and More

Posted: August 13, 2019 at 9:05 am

Stocks were indicated to open marginally lower on Tuesday. The market may have taken it on the chin on Monday over trade and currency fears with China, but the 1.2% ...
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How the Case for Owning American Electric Power for the Next Decade Has Changed

Posted: July 11, 2019 at 8:15 am

With a new decade on the horizon, investors need to be considering what worked over the past decade and whether they should expect the same or different outcomes for what ...
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8 Stocks That Will Win as the Fed Lowers Interest Rates

Posted: June 19, 2019 at 10:35 am

The debate is on over whether or not Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve's FOMC will lower interest rates sooner rather than later. Some pundits and investors had been calling ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Apple, Broadcom, Charter, Comcast, CommScope, ConEd, Next Era, Rockwell, Transocean and More

Posted: June 14, 2019 at 9:05 am

Stocks were indicated to open lower on Friday after weak semiconductor news and weak news about China. With so many nontraditional developments and so many sidebar issues affecting the markets ...
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Are Utilities Losing Their Defensive Appeal Ahead of Summer?

Posted: June 2, 2019 at 11:40 am
Last updated: June 3, 2019 7:50 am

It is no secret that the economy and the market have run across some newfound challenges. On top of slower global growth, as well as an escalating trade war with ...
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9 Stocks Defying China & Washington by Hitting All-Time Highs

Posted: May 23, 2019 at 12:25 pm

With the U.S. markets and the economy being held hostage by an all-out trade war with China, and perhaps the most gridlocked Washington, D.C., we have seen in a lifetime, ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: American Eagle, Atlassian, Match, NextEra, Nordstom, Office Depot, Roku, Stamps.com, Tanger and More

Posted: May 9, 2019 at 8:50 am

Stocks were trading lower again on Thursday morning ahead of the tariff news, with President Trump signaling that China basically broke the deal at the last minute. Investors have seen ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: AEP, Boeing, Dollar Tree, GE, Micron, NextEra, P&G, Roku, Snap, Starbucks, Tesla, Wynn and More

Posted: April 8, 2019 at 8:55 am

Stocks were looking for a softer opening bell indication on Monday, but the major market indexes are still up double-digit percentages year to date, with the S&P 500 within striking ...
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Merrill Lynch Much More Optimistic for Upside in Major Utilities in 2019 and Beyond

Posted: March 30, 2019 at 9:10 am

Many investors flocked into the utility sector during and after the Great Recession. After all, this was a safety and defensive investing strategy, first and foremost. But the sector also ...
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NextEra Is First Utility on the Way to Joining the $100 Billion Club

Posted: March 20, 2019 at 3:20 pm
Last updated: March 21, 2019 6:24 am

The world of mega-cap stocks has grown in ranks during the 10-year bull market. Having a mega-cap traditionally was having a market capitalization of $100 billion or more, but some ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Allergan, Costco, Cree, Dollar Tree, Eli Lilly, FedEx, Mylan, NextEra, Peabody, Teva, Yum Brands and More

Posted: March 20, 2019 at 8:55 am

Stocks were indicated to open marginally higher on Wednesday ahead of the FOMC decision on interest rates. With the market having recouped so much ground in 2019, investors need to ...
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Morgan Stanley Picks 30 Stocks for 2021

Posted: March 15, 2019 at 2:12 pm
Last updated: March 16, 2019 9:24 am

Looking at stock performance two years ahead implies that investors choose between two risk-reward strategies based on the current state of the market. For some time now, U.S. equity markets ...
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