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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: ADP, Facebook, FireEye, Potash, Tyson,...
Stocks were marginally higher but not in a set direction ahead of the key unemployment and payrolls report on Friday morning. Regardless, investors keep proving that they want to buy stocks with a...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: ADP, Cigna, First Solar, Garmin, LINN,...
Stocks were staging a major bounce on Wednesday morning, despite a deadly overseas terrorist attack in Paris. After another year of gains, the bull market is nearing six years old. Investors have...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Ally, Apple, ADP, Brocade, Level 3, Tyco...
Stocks surged higher Thursday morning, a day ahead of the unemployment and payrolls report. Investors keep proving over and over that they will buy stocks on pullbacks and that they will seek value and...
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4 Merrill Lynch High Quality and Dividend Yield Stocks to Buy Now
The higher the market goes, and the more that volatility starts to play a part of the action, the more conservative investors want to move out of any high beta stocks. With a potential for a large...
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4 High-Quality Dividend Stocks Merrill Lynch Says to Buy for 2016
One of the best things about the Federal Reserve finally lifting interest rates for the first time in years is that the pall that has hung over the stock market, and especially dividend yielding...
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Merrill Lynch Has 5 Stocks to Buy Going Into Earnings Season
Earnings season for the first quarter of 2016 is now underway. With so many analysts and research shops calling for the worst earnings trends being seen since 2009, some investors are thinking that...
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Data Breaches Up 18% to Date in 2016
The latest count from the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) reports that there have been 348 data breaches recorded this year through May 3, 2016, and that more than 11.36 million records have been...
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25 Companies Raising Their Dividends for 25 Years or More
Investors love when companies pay dividends. More specifically, they love companies that are raising their dividends year after year. There exists a classification of dividend payers known as the...
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Merrill Lynch Raises Price Targets on 4 Top Momentum Growth Stocks
With the market busting through a top that has been in place since February of 2015, some of the more bullish voices on Wall Street think it’s possible we could see a big breakout. While that is indeed...
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14 Top S&P 500 Stocks Raising Dividends for 25 Years, With More Hikes Expected
Investors have enjoyed many years of cheering for dividend hikes. Now there is some belief that after a seven and a half year bull market run that many companies will have a hard time raising their...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Ciena, Comcast, Facebook, Mobileye,...
Stocks were marginally higher on Friday (a Friday the 13th, that is) on the heels of positive but not hot Producer Price index and retail sales data from December. Bank earnings have also started...
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Why Payments Are Looking Better for Investors and Consumers Alike
Strong performance year to date and an outlook that includes long-term tailwinds for some stocks has led Wedbush Securities to raise the firm’s price targets on many of the 11 stocks included in its...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Amex, ADP, Goodyear, McDonald’s,...
Stocks hit all-time highs yet again on Monday and the Dow has now gone above the 24/7 Wall St. 2017 price target issued at the start of this year. The bull market may be well over eight years old now,...
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Thursday’s Biggest Winners and Losers in the S&P 500
July 27, 2017: The S&P 500 closed down 0.1% at 2,475.44. The DJIA closed up 0.4% at 21,797.95. Separately, the Nasdaq closed down 0.6% at 6,382.19. Thursday was a very mixed day for the U.S. broad...
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6 Most Important Things in Business Today
Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google fired the employee who wrote an anti-diversity memo. The document was widely circulated in by the press. Uber’s chairman wrote a note to the company’s staff...
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As Bill Ackman Loses Activist Bid Against ADP, Does He Really Lose?
Automatic Data Processing Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP) may have won a round of independence and shareholder goodwill on Tuesday. The massive payrolls and human resources outfit fended off a bid from activist...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: ADP, Bluebird Bio, DaVita, First Solar,...
Stocks recently hit all-time highs, and they were indicated to open marginally higher on Monday. The trend that has continued to prevail is investors buying all the big market sell-offs. Investors are...
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5 Top Stocks to Buy as Investors Give Up on FANG Stocks
For years the so-called FANG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google) were all the rage. That was where the top portfolio managers put some huge bets, and boy did it pay off. While there still...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Agilent, Allstate, ADP, Baker Hughes,...
Stocks had a strong end of the week for the last day of the first quarter, but the first day of the second quarter was looking to be off to a weak start. The bull market is now over nine years old, and...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades: Amazon, ADP, BHP Billiton, Cloudera,...
Stocks have been looking for a base, but futures were down handily despite a strong jobs report from ADP. The culprit for Wednesday’s selling is more retaliatory tariff news out of China, with the Dow...
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