JPMorgan analyst Harlan Sur is one of many who were impressed by Applied Materials, Inc. AMAT 0.3%’s fiscal Q2 earnings and guidance beats. The stock is up more than 12.8 percent in early Friday trading, but Sur sees plenty of upside left for Applied Materials.
The Milwaukee Bucks basketball players have become victims of a major security breach, and the technical sophistication of the breach is likely something your grandparents could handle. The franchise has confirmed that players’ 2015 IRS W-2 information, including names, addresses, Social Security numbers, income information and dates of birth were released via email to an…
Apple Inc. AAPL 0.79% has had a rough go of it lately. The stock recently hit new seven-month lows, and it remains down 27.0 percent in the past year. If you were wondering what inspiring words the late great visionary Steve Jobs would tell Apple employees in times like these, you might be disappointed.
So many investors around the world are cautious in today’s market that defensive stocks may have become a risky bet. According to Citi analyst Robert Buckland, defensive stock valuations are historically high and are becoming an increasingly crowded trade.
If you’re a momentum trader, pay attention. You might be missing the greatest momentum trade of all time: the S&P 500. That’s the case A Wealth of Common Sense’s Ben Carlson recently made in a blog post discussing the counter-intuitive nature of S&P component performance over time.
There’s no way around it: Starting a business is hard, especially for an inexperienced entrepreneur. But, if you can at least avoid some of the common mistakes that entrepreneurs tend to make on their first go-around, you’ll be ahead of the game.
Unfortunately, just because someone is on TV every day talking about the stock market or happens to run a billion dollar hedge fund does not mean that he or she is any good at picking stocks. In fact, with recent picks like Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX), Kohl’s Corporation (KSS) and Micron (MU), Bill Ackman, Jim Cramer and David…
Most oil services stocks have surged in recent months as WTI crude oil prices have pushed as high as $46/bbl following February’s lows around $26/bbl. But should shareholders of the three largest oil services companies in the world, Schlumberger (SLB), Halliburton (HAL) andBaker Hughes (BHI) be taking profits or holding out for more gains?
In times of uncertain economic conditions and highly-volatile markets, pair trades can be one easy way to reduce trading risk. Pairs trades involve shorting one stock and going long another, typically correlated one. Industry experts at last week’s Sohn Investment Conference laid the foundation for pair trades involving Amazon.com (AMZN), General Motors (GM) and Royal Dutch Shell…
The latest FOMC minutes released this week suggest another small interest rate hike could be coming as soon as June. Wall Street and economics gurus love to make a fuss over the timing and potential implications of interest rate changes, but not every American is a bond trader, an economics professor or a monetary policy…