The top equity strategist at Merrill Lynch has updated the High Quality and Dividend Yield screen of stocks to buy, adding some names that may provide investors solid 2014 returns.
ThinkstockStocks have pulled back ahead of the jobs data, and investors need to be considering how to position their portfolios going into year-end and 2014. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many Wall Street…
June 27, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning after the reports on new U.S. jobless claims and personal income and a blizzard of data from Europe. Eurozone consumer confidence is still…
June 26, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following the final reading on first quarter U.S. GDP growth, which came in lower than expected, but investors apparently believe that the…
U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning even following a larger than expected rise in new claims for jobless benefits in the U.S. The final revision to fourth quarter 2012 GDP…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following a stack of poor reports on the Italian economy. New industrial orders were down, industrial sales were down, and retail sales were down. To…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe stock market has come a long way since the dark days of March 2009. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been up 10 days in a row.…
The Merrill Lynch research team at Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is out with its key RIC report for 2013, which is titled “2013: Back to the Future” for the start…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Friday. Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX) cut to Hold at Argus. Amicus Therapeutics…
U.S. equity markets opened flat to higher again this morning following the third revision to U.S. GDP growth in the third quarter and the report on new claims for unemployment benefits (more…
U.S. equity markets opened flat to higher this morning but the good vibe didn’t last long. In Europe, the Bank of England made no changes either to interest rates or its bond…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Thursday. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) raised to Outperform at William Blair…
The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher this morning but were unable to hold gains into the afternoon. In Europe this morning, a Spanish bond auction widened the spread between German…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Tuesday. Automatic Data Processing Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP) cut to Neutral at UBS. Bank…
Paychex Inc. (NASDAQ: PAYX) reported fiscal first quarter 2013 earnings per share (EPS) of $0.42 on revenue of $578.2 million. In the same period a year ago, the homebuilder reported EPS of…
