Canaccord analyst Scott Van Winkle remains bullish on United Natural Foods Inc UNFI 0.41% following the company’s recent pre-announcement and impressive fiscal 2016 guidance. In a new report, Van Winkle notes that United has now become a better value than rival Sysco Corp SYY 2.1% for only the second time since 2008.

As the S&P 500 continues to trend mostly sideways so far this year, an increasing number of investors are becoming nervous that the six-year bull market may be finally reaching its top. Citi Research analyst Stephen Antczak sees this market anxiety reflected in the growing number of clients asking about hedges in recent weeks. Antczak…

Stock pickers often have to decide whether they want to chase yield or growth in the market, but UBS analyst Spiro Dounis believes that he’s found a stock that has it all. In a new report, Dounis explains why tanker company Euronav NV (NYSE: EURN) represents the best of both worlds.

A new report by Mizuho analyst Peter Lawson focuses on biotech stocks with major catalysts on the way between now and the end of 2016. Perhaps more than any other sector, biotech stocks move based on major events, and here is a breakdown of what biotech traders should be watching.

Pew Research just released its annual Mobile Messaging and Social Media report, and the results show that Pinterest and Facebook Inc FB 4.97%’s Instagram are the big winners when it comes to growth. According to the survey, usage rates among rivals Facebook, LinkedIn Corp LNKD 0.59% and Twitter Inc TWTR 0.5% seem to be stalled.

The Indian central bank announced 11 winners in its new push to bring banking services to a large segment of the country’s population for the first time. The 11 companies selected out of 41 applicants will work closely with the Reserve Bank of India to set up “payments banks,” which will rely heavily on mobile…

Crude oil prices hit fresh 6.5-year lows on Wednesday, and the trigger seems to be the most recent U.S. commercial crude oil inventories number reported by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Inventories were widely expected to continue falling from all-time highs reached back in April, but the latest number indicated a surprise uptick, which…

The story for infidelity website AshleyMadison.com keeps getting worse, as hackers that accessed a large amount of user data last month made good on threats to make the information public on Tuesday by posting it online. Avid Life Media, which operates AshleyMadison.com, confirmed on Wednesday that at least some of the data being published online…

In a new report, Marty Fridson, CIO of wealth management firm Lehmann Livian Fridson Advisors LLC, discussed the recent sell-off in the high-yield market. According to Fridson, the period of extreme overvaluation has ended, but energy and metals/mining bonds have played a disproportionately large role.

With the IRS apparently still studying the details of a potential spin-off of Yahoo! Inc. YHOO 3.43%’s stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd BABA 3.04%, SunTrust analyst Bob Peck released a new report explaining the four possible scenarios that Yahoo shareholders are likely to see based on exactly how the IRS chooses to handle the…