Jon OggArgus Research, an independent equity research firm open since 1934, has issued a series of changes to its model portfolios now, as we are still in the early part of the year. This…
The stock market is up Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 0.47%, the Nasdaq up 0.48% and the S&P 500 up 0.43%. Today’s winners include a shoe company getting purchased and a…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen so far from Wall St. research calls this Thursday: ADTRAN Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) cut to Sell at UBS but raised to Neutral…
ThinkstockWe recently did a story on stocks that perform well in a rising interest rate environment, a scenario that appears set up to be in play down the road. For the time being, the…
courtesy Dell Inc.Private equity firm Silver Lake Partner’s rush to fund a buyout of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has accelerated. And investors have begun to ask if founder Michael Dell has a conflict of…
ThinkstockThe brief optimism that a resolution to financial problems in the European Union would begin a process that would resurrect the economy is over. Both economists and national leaders believe that low consumer demand, unemployment…
ThinkstockMichael Dell and the Dell Buyout Private equity firm Silver Lake Partner’s rush to fund a buyout of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has accelerated. And investors begin to ask if founder Michael Dell has…
Wikimedia CommonsBoeing Co. (NYSE: BA) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer W. James (Jim) McNerney Jr. should resign. Or, more likely, the company’s board of directors should fire him. McNerney’s tenure overlaps the period during…
courtesy of YouTubeThe head of Rio Tinto PLC (NYSE: RIO) will leave after the company took a $14 billion write-down. (Reuters) The FAA grounds the Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) Dreamliner after it has more…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning with the Nasdaq Composite slightly higher, while the DJIA and the S&P 500 were lower. Earnings from several U.S. financial institutions were due today and investors were…
The hostage count in an early morning attack on a natural gas field in Algeria could be above 150 according to some reports. The first reports from the field indicated that at least 8…
ThinkstockThe U.S. will soon become the world’s second-largest economy according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Measured on purchasing power parity (PPP) basis, China will overtake the U.S. in 2017; on a market…
Vice President Biden and President Obama have now publicly spoken about what the nation’s new efforts on gun control will look like. What we at 24/7 Wall St. have maintained this entire time since the…
ThinkstockFollowing the lead of EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, and other presidential appointees, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, said this morning that he will…
ThinkstockA report this week from the American Society of Civil Engineers shows just how bad the state of infrastructure in the United States is and how much spending is needed in the next decade…