Jon OggInvestors and traders are often on the hunt for fresh research ideas that will generate higher income or more profits. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many analyst research calls from Wall Street…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning adding to yesterday’s carnage following the FOMC announcement yesterday. The widespread belief that sometime this year the Fed will start reducing its $85 billion in…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Thursday, June 20, 2013. They include FedEx, HP, Sprint and Walmart.
ThinkstockThere are a variety of ways to invest in precious metals. Buying gold or silver bars and coins is one. Exchange traded funds (ETFs) are another. A third way is by investing in mining…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning as investors weighed conflicting data from the U.S., Europe, and Asia. In Europe, retail sales declined more than expected in Germany, Italy’s unemployment rate remained…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning after the U.S. Department of Commerce reported that personal income and spending both rose by 0.2%, which was slightly higher than expected for spending and…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning, but struggled to stay in positive territory for most of the morning. There was little economic data released today. In Asia, Hong Kong’s consumer price…
Jon OggInvestors are used to seeing many Buy ratings from Wall St. analysts, but they often overlook or do not see when these analysts give lists of stocks to sell or when…
ThinkstockToday’s 9.3% drop in the price of gold was the largest one-day drop in 30 years. The sell-off began in Asia last night, continued through the day in Europe, and wound up…
ThinkstockThe latest casualty of the drop in gold prices is gold-mining stocks. CNBC reports: As gold prices extended their decline on Monday, investors dumped shares of gold miners on worries over their…
Douglas A. McIntyre ThinkstockArgus offers investors what is generally considered to be truly independent research. The firm has none of the possible conflicts of interest that you might see from traditional Wall St. sell-side firms…
ThinkstockThe banking crisis in Cyprus has dragged on for a week now, with threat projections ranging all the way from “dire” to “who cares.” It seems reasonable to assume that whatever threat…
ThinkstockLondon-traded Glencore International has been making news for more than a year now for its takeover of Xstrata, a mining company of which Glencore already owns about 40%. The company is awaiting…
ThinkstockThis will not sound nice, but it isn’t meant to: It really sucks to be a gold miner right now. Gold prices have lost the wind at their back, gold production prices…
ThinkstockWe have already covered the sea change that is washing over the mining industry. Where past practice has been to invest heavily in new assets with the strategy that growth was assured,…
