Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has one more bit of evidence that it is acting as if it was its own stock index. Its exceptional share performance is worth a substantial portion of…
Everyone loves Warren Buffett’s sage advice. Almost everyone at any rate. But what about Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) as an investment. We have argued that perhaps the Berkshire Hathaway…
If you can believe it, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (NYSE: DIA) and the S&P 500 Index (NYSE: SPY) have not yet had a single closing bell loss of 1% on a…
TrimTabs is out with its newest round of investment research and it is calling for investors to buy gold and silver for the long-term on what it calls a dollar cost average basis.…
2012 is getting off to a great start for the equity markets. We recently looked at the performance of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.B), which is underperforming this year so…
TrimTabs is showing what many investors might have expected. After such a volatile year in the stock market, investors are seeking safety in the nearly no-income offered by bond funds and bank savings…
In the latest RIC Report, Bank of America Merrill Lynch has come out with a new report titled “Time to Reduce Equities.” There is no hidden message in the report and it…
Jon C. Ogg October may have been one of the best months of many of our lives in equities. The SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) rose by 10.9%. in October, but the year-to-date gain has been…
The month of October was a solid month for stocks, one of the best months of our lifetimes. We have two groups today and the first is the stocks which rose the…
International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM) has now reported its third quarter earnings report at $3.28 EPS and $26.2 billion in sales. Thomson Reuters was looking for $3.22 EPS and $26.25 billion…
It has become the newest game on Wall Street in the last month to lower global growth targets for 2011 and 2012 over the last six weeks. What is amazing is that…
The CBOE Volatility Index, or ‘The Fear Index,’ is reaching levels not seen since the height of the August selling panic. That peaked around 47 in August and we just briefly went back…
The DJIA (NYSE: DIA) was trading down 500 points today before a late-day rally. More European concerns and serious slowing in China’s manufacturing data only brought on more selling. The week before…
Jon OggEach morning we review our top upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street research notes. We then look back over these at the end of the week to more closely review…
Credit Suisse is downgrading the benchmark targets for the stock market and for economic growth. Before you panic too much, the Global Equity Strategy group is still maintaining an Overweight rating for…
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