TwitterBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has been holding its annual stockpalooza or Woodstock of Wall Street for its shareholders this weekend. The good news, and the bad news, is that there is something for…
ThinkstockThere are 84 stocks in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index which trade for more than $100 a share. The best known are Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), However, they are far…
ThinkstockEmerging markets have not been performing the way they have in many past bull markets. Most investor interest and direction from Wall Street strategists decided earlier this year that the U.S. and developed markets…
Thinkstock24/7 Wall St. routinely reviews dozens of analyst research reports each morning of the week. At the end of each week, there is a realization that some stood out handily over most reports. Then…
This past week brought yet another swing taking the Dow Jones Industrial Average to within 30 points or so of an all-time record high. 24/7 Wall St, wanted to review the four best Dow…
Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia CommonsThere may be one or two institutions which own larger blocks of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) than Steve Ballmer does, but for the first time in history, Ballmer owns more shares…
Some 38,000 attendees are scheduled to appear at the annual meeting this weekend for Berkshire Hathaway. Warren Buffett has already been in the news quite a bit ahead of the event.
ThinkstockCredit Suisse has many sector and macroeconomic research reports, but one that always stands out is the Small & Mid Cap portfolio changes. Of the dozens of companies included in the report, only four…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street for Friday, May 2, 2014. They include Avanir, Avon, Broadcom, LinkedIn, Oracle and Wynn Resorts.
Wikimedia CommonsKraft Foods Group Inc. (NASDAQ: KRFT) reported first-quarter 2014 results after the markets closed Thursday. The packaged food and beverage company posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.78 on revenues of…
thinkstockMay 1, 2014: Markets opened mixed on Thursday as only the Nasdaq managed a positive showing at the start. None of the indexes moved very far from the break-even line all day following a…
These are the top upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street analysts for Thursday, May 1, 2014. They include Barclays, Emulex, Facebook, Yelp, JDS UniPhase and JetBlue.
thinkstockApril 30, 2014: Markets opened lower on Wednesday but perked up following the FOMC’s mid-afternoon announcement that it would continue to cut its asset buying even though the first reading on Q1 GDP showed…
ThinkstockThe $6.8 billion acquisition of Pepco Holdings Inc. (NYSE: POM) by Exelon Corp. (NYSE: EXC) announced this morning creates a utility company with some 10 million customers in the region around the District of…
Jon OggEvery year there is a general pre-summer saying from investors: Sell in May, and go away! The idea is to miss the summer doldrums and lack of investor interest. One small problem, this…