ThinkstockAs we head in to the final month of what has been a tremendous year for the stock market, the 24/7 staff is reviewing what the major Wall Street firms are recommending…
Courtesy Ford Motor Co.This year has been a tough one for value investors. The rage has been growth stocks, especially the momentum names, and the more conservative value names have been left…
Courtesy Lockheed Martin Corp.Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT), the world’s largest defense contractor, had said on Friday that it would furlough some 3,000 employees as a result of the federal government shutdown.…
Courtesy Boeing Co.It was barely over a week ago that we couldn’t help but notice how the aerospace and defense stocks were getting hit hard to lower share prices despite the notion…
When nations go to war, the so-called military industrial complex is generally considered to be the real winner when it comes to the economic side of the equation. Warfare is a very…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Friday, July 26, 2013. They include Baidu, Tesla Motors, Campbell Soup, OpenTable and Raytheon.
News is out almost daily of China and other nations stealing sensitive data in hack attacks and via corporate espionage efforts. Most of the time it is over bank security, utility and…
courtesy Boeing Co.Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is known rather well for making sector-moving research calls that create ripples due to the vast amounts of money that can flow in and…
courtesy Boeing Co.It feels almost like the news flow from 11 years ago is repeating itself, as terrorism is back in the headlines and in the breaking news in America. First it…
America lost its ability to ease into the thought that it was safe again on Monday after the Boston Marathon bombs killed three people and injured more than 100. This is very unfortunate,…
ThinkstockAfter markets closed last night, Fortinet Inc. (NASDAQ: FTNT) issued a warning on earnings and revenues for the company’s first quarter. The announcement dragged down share prices at several other vendors of…
The rhetoric out of North Korea is acting as a drag to the broader markets, but don’t tell that to the defense sector. Of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks, only four…
ThinkstockNorth Korean television this morning broadcast another thinly veiled threat against the United States. In a translation provided by the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper, North Korea said: The U.S. should not forget that…
The business of war is profitable. In 2011, the 100 largest contractors sold $410 billion in arms and military services. Just 10 of those companies sold over $208 billion. Based on a…
ThinkstockIf most Americans had ever heard the term “sequester” before last fall, they probably thought it meant something like entering a monastery or convent. But in the doublespeak of the current world…
