Today’s Market Winners and Losers
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe stock market is up Wednesday, with Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.29%, the Nasdaq up 0.05% and the S&P 500 up 0.15%. Today’s sole winner is an insurer that…
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Newest first · Page 102Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (A, BBY, BFAM, DF, ICE, JCP, MA, QCOM, CRM, SKX, VVUS)
Jon OggThese are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) started as Outperform at Leerink Swann. Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE:…
Seven Stocks That Will Take the DJIA to 15,000 (IBM, CVX, MMM, MCD, UTX, CAT, XOM)
The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new high this week, and the new closing high is 14,253.77. We originally came up with a top price target for the DJIA of 14,590 for 2013…
European GDP Fell in the Fourth Quarter
thinkstockIf there is any question about the existence of a new recession in Europe, statistics operation Eurostat answered it. The agency has reported gross domestic product data for the final quarter of 2012: GDP fell…
What’s Important in the Financial World (3/6/2013)
ThinkstockThoughts on Dow Record Almost every financial and general newspaper or news website has as its headline a story about the record peak of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The same media appear evenly…
Media Digest (3/6/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg
courtesy of Facebook Inc.Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Beats Electronics discuss a content partnership. (Reuters) The European Union will fine Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) for violating agreements about use of its browser. (Reuters) Google…
Market Close: Today’s Big Winners and Losers (ACUR, MTG, HIMX, DYAX, ZOLT, RNIN, IPXL, REGI, HGSH, STRN)
Here are today’s five biggest gaining stocks at closing: Acura Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ACUR) is up 48.3% at $3.04. MGIC Investment Corp. (NYSE: MTG) is up 27.8% at $5.34 (new 52-week high today of…
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — March 5, 2013: Markets Climb as Dow Sets All-Time High (NFLX, YHOO, CLF, A, APOL, CKP, CEP, APP, GEVO, QIHU, SWHU, PAY, AEO, BIG, TFM, HOV, SPLS, STP, MTG, CREE, VOD, VZ)
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning and it didn’t take long for the DJIA to blow past its all-time intra-day high of 14,198.10 (more coverage here). There was a little news and data…
10 Highly Unusual Volume Spikes with Huge Gains in Shares Traded
Jon Ogg24/7 Wall St. is tracking the highly unusual volume increases in shares today. The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a new all-time high today, but the volume on these news bits is taking…
Economic Confidence Plunges in Late February — Gallup
ThinkstockAfter posting a five-year high in January, Gallup’s economic confidence index fell to a level equal to that at the end of December, when consumers were worried about the impending fiscal cliff. Once Congress…
DJIA Crosses 14,200 to New All-Time High! More Gains to Come
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has now hit a new high, and it did it on a day where there is actually very little news acting as the driving force. The prior closing high was…
Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (MITT, A, ALTR, APOL, CLF, CBRL, EVEP, FLO, HIIQ, MTG, NFLX, YHOO)
Jon OggThese are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. A.G. Mortgage Investment Trust (NYSE: MITT) started as Neutral at Credit Suisse. Agilent Technologies Inc.…
Jefferies Adds Four New Stocks to Global Conviction List (DECK, PTR, TKOMY, VNTV)
ThinkstockWhile the U.S. and Asian markets have had strong starts to the 2013 trading year, global equities as a whole have faced some headwinds over the past month. Many of the struggles in the…
Business Activity in the U.K. Increases Again
ThinkstockThough things are looking grim in the eurozone, the United Kingdom showed signs of dodging a recession, although one month of data hardly makes a trend. Markit reports: Business activity in the UK service…
Eurozone Falls Further Into Recession in February
ThinkstockThe manufacturing sector of the eurozone could not be saved by the region’s largest nation by gross domestic product — Germany. Research firm Markit reports that the balance of the region has moved into…