Gold bugs and fans of gold mining stocks are not going to get a pleasant feeling here. Fitch Ratings has a cautious report on what can happen to gold miners and producers even when the London Bullion Market ...

Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) has several things going for it. It is a newly added Dow Jones Industrial Average component. We also expect the company to raise its dividend in the next few weeks. Now a Wall Street ...

Less than 10 years ago, just about everybody had a cell phone. However, at that point nobody had a smartphone. The smartphone revolution grew out of the ill-fated Palm idea for a personal digital assistant, ...

When Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) ignited the smartphone revolution in 2007, it continued its ongoing policy of using a fairly heavy hand on its suppliers to contain costs and keep its margins at the highest ...

Volatility has resumed in stocks, and investors are looking for bargains. They also are looking to see where they need to protect their portfolios. Investors often get to see analyst reports with Buy ratings ...

The Container Store Group Inc. has joined the waves of well-known companies looking to come public in an initial public offering. Formal terms have not been set other than that the IPO will be for up to ...

As a government shutdown and debt ceiling debate rage on as new (or repetitive) market risks, investors have to decide which stocks to buy and which to sell or avoid. 24/7 Wall St. reviews dozens of research ...

Whether you are a trader or investor, one of the keys to success is having a meaningful enough position in the stocks you own to take advantage of strong upside price movement. As we have mentioned before, ...

Rumors spread that Twitter would file its initial public offering (IPO) papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week. The likelihood of that has died as the federal government prepares ...

Shares in Archipelago Resources jumped nearly a fifth on Friday after its majority shareholder launched an offer to buy out minority investors in the Indonesian gold miner. The recommended takeover offer ...

On the surface, it sure looks like Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ:GMCR) is winning the battle against David Einhorn, a short seller who bludgeoned its share price with a damning slide presentation ...

September 27, 2013: U.S. markets opened lower Friday as the political battle over the federal budget finally caught traders’ attention. Only the Nasdaq Composite touched the break-even line today — and ...

A dip in Berkeley Group Holdings' share price tempted Veronica Wadley into her fourth purchase of the year on Friday. She made her first trade at 1,831p in January a year after joining the housebuilder ...

Small is beautiful. Elephants don't gallop. A flea can jump 200 times its own height. There's no shortage of appropriate metaphors for the tendency of small-cap shares to outperform their larger brethren ...

J. C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) has done serious damage yet again to its reputation. Earlier in the year its finances were said to be just fine. Then a fresh report from Goldman Sachs that the company ...

The company behind Candy Crush Saga is going public. Social games developer King has reportedly filed for its IPO on the Nasdaq exchange, according to a report from The Telegraph. Just as Twitter did two weeks ago, King started the process confidentially, a luxury afforded to small companies by the JOBS Act. The filing …

Flash memory array maker Violin Memory Inc. (NASDAQ: VMEM) sold 18 million shares at $9 apiece Friday morning in an initial public offering (IPO) that raised net proceeds of around $147 million. The IPO ...

Are you panicking about a government shutdown or about no debt ceiling deal yet? Apparently that is all the market can think of as Washington, D.C., is yet again holding the nation and the global economy ...

The initial public offering (IPO) for RingCentral Inc. (NYSE: RNG) has arrived. It turns out that this is a hot IPO as well. If you had read our preview back at the time of the filing, this deal’s warm ...

Stocks bounced after five straight days of selling, and now investors and traders alike are deciding which stocks to buy and which ones to sell or avoid. 24/7 Wall St. reviews dozens of Wall Street analyst ...

Over the past year and a half, Wall Street has seen increased leveraged buyout (LBO) activity within the specialty retail space. The most recent takeout announcement back in May was for Rue 21. Incidentally, ...

Before markets opened on Friday morning, J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) priced a secondary offering of 84 million shares of common stock at $9.65 a share, about 7.4% below last night’s closing price ...

J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) tried to calm the markets earlier today when the company indicated that same-store sales patterns were improving. Anyone who invested in the shares later in the day as ...

American GIs were famously described as "overpaid, oversexed and over here" when they arrived in Britain during the second world war. US investors have received a somewhat warmer welcome to Europe ...

Investor relief that the eurozone crisis has abated makes Europe the standout performer in the global market for initial public offerings. With 77 new issues totalling $17.9bn, the value of European IPOs ...

Private equity groups are bringing forward plans to list their European companies, as they seek to tap increasing investor appetite for riskier assets and exit investments made before the financial crisis. ...

Three months ago Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) was a cautionary tale. Now it’s one of the fastest rising stocks on the market.

Between the sharp back-up in long-term rates that will penalize mortgage and trading results, and the ongoing political bloodlust that reflects itself in fines and litigation accruals, the banking analysts ...

As a rule, Wall Street brokers and financial advisors typically try to steer their clients away from stocks that trade under $10, as well as avoid like the plague stocks that trade under $5. There are ...

As legendary pros warn that the market is overheated, equity funds draw record sums from investors

With corporate profits at record highs, companies awash in cash still aren’t rushing to reinvest in their operations in the form of capital expenditures . Instead, returning said cash to shareholders continues ...

In April, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) announced plans to spend $60 billion by the end of 2015 to buy back shares. It didn’t wait long to make a big dent in that spending plan. In the fiscal third quarter ended ...

Eleven IPOs have debuted on U.S. exchanges in the past week. Fittingly, a company called Rocket Fuel (FUEL) is soaring past them all.

24/7 Wall St. reviews many short interest changes throughout the month. What generally stands out the most is when there are big short interest trend changes, such as seeing that high-yield dividend stocks ...

Cancer-treatment company Foundation Medicine Inc. (NASDAQ: FMI) held its initial public offering (IPO) Wednesday morning. The company sold 5.9 million shares at an offering price of $18 a share, above ...

For the Hong Kong stock exchange the dream of hosting Alibaba's highly anticipated, multibillion-dollar listing has turned into the nightmare of seeing the Chinese internet group turn instead to New York. ...

Short sellers have increased their bets against the stable high-dividend stocks that are in most Americans’ retirement accounts and mutual funds. In fact, the mid-September short interest saw year highs ...

China’s e-commerce giant, Alibaba, has dropped plans to file for an initial public offering (IPO) valued at more than $60 billion on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The company now is expected to file for ...

With many of the companies in the S&P 500 having margins approaching all-time highs, and implied S&P 500 correlations approaching post-crisis lows, it is becoming harder to make a bullish case for the ...

Stocks have pulled back for four days in a row now, and investors and traders alike are looking at which stocks they ought to buy, sell or avoid. 24/7 Wall St. reviews literally dozens of Wall Street analyst ...

Lately it's been hard to go wrong with dividend-paying stocks. Many companies are being generous with their payouts, and their stocks have generally performed well. But if your dividend holdings look a ...

Stock market debutantes and penguins on an ice floe have this in common: a lone pioneer must plunge in before the others follow en masse. The deal that reopened the new issues market arguably came from ...

September 24, 2013: U.S. markets opened slightly higher on Tuesday but a weak report on consumer confidence pushed equities down to their daily lows. Stocks recovered though as the earlier release of the ...

The Fed decided to stand pat The Fed decided to maintain its current pace of asset purchases at the FOMC meeting last week. The Fed was surprised at the market’s…

For the past year and a half, top hotel, restaurant and leisure stocks have surged on investor interest and very positive sentiment from Wall Street analysts. In a research report out today, the analysts ...

In a filing that Chrysler Group’s majority owner wanted to delay forever, the U.S. carmaker has submitted its Form S-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise $100 million in an initial ...

Despite Republican efforts to defund the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, it is looking increasingly likely that the program will begin enrollment into the new health care exchanges beginning next week, ...

Looking to learn from the past, social media company Twitter will list on the New York Stock Exchange.