Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include AK Steel, National Oilwell Varco, Pfizer, Stratasys, Twitter and Wynn Resorts.
Pfizer has reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings and revenue and offered guidance.
Jon C. Ogg thinkstockApril 27, 2015: Markets opened higher on Monday but there was little positive news to sustain the opening gains. Biotech stocks traded lower to drag the Nasdaq Composite lower. Heavyweight Apple reports…
Pharmaceutical giants Merck and Pfizer are both releasing their first quarter financial results early Tuesday.
Rising short interest in Petrobras kept its shares firmly in ranks of the most shorted stocks trading on the New York Stock Exchange between the March 31 and April 15 settlement dates.
24/7 Wall St. has put together a preview of some of the Dow Jones Industrial Average components reporting their financial results in the week ahead.
24/7 Wall St. wanted to review the five Dow stocks that are up the most so far this year. All five of the top performers have seen double-digit gains.
The 30-year Treasury Bond yields only about 2.5% and, amazingly, more than half of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks are yielding more than that.
thinkstockApril 13, 2015: Markets opened higher on Monday but both the DJIA and the S&P 500 turned negative about noon as traders apparently decided to wait for the first of the week’s…
Among most shorted stocks trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Chesapeake Energy and Petrobras once again saw sharp increases in their short interest in late March.
thinkstockApril 9, 2015: Markets opened higher on Thursday and the three major indexes spent most of the day bouncing around the breakeven line. Equity prices turned higher with about an hour left…
thinkstockApril 1, 2015: Markets opened lower on Wednesday on mixed economic news. The ADP employment report came in well short of expectations, the dollar weakened a bit, and crude oil rose sharply…
24/7 Wall St. has already highlighted the worst performing S&P 500 stocks of 2015, and now wants to highlight the best performing S&P 500 stocks of 2015.
Chesapeake Energy, Petrobras and Vale all saw the double-digit percentage increases in the numbers of their shares short between the February 13 and February 27 settlement dates.
All indexes rebalance on a quarterly basis. 24/7 Wall St. screened a recent Jefferies report for the stocks that will see the most trading on Friday's rebalance.
