A recent report by Bank of America lays out the repercussions that analysts expect in upcoming years from the recent collapse in oil prices. Bank of America lowered its projections for Brent and WTI prices and lowered price targets for several stocks that are exposed heavily to upstream oil and gas production. The price of oil has…
A recent report by Bank of America focused on investment themes for a changing world. One of the areas that the report identified as a source of change is security. Bank of America analysts believe that societal advancements are producing new potential threats each year, and the business of protecting people from these threats will…
A recent report by Bank of America focused on investment themes for a changing world. One of the areas that the report identified as a source of change is energy efficiency. Primary energy demand already makes up 7 percent of worldwide GDP, and Bank of America analysts expect energy demand to grow by 40 percent by 2035.…
A recent report by Bank of America focused on investment themes for a changing world. One of the areas that the report identified as a source of change is education. Today, the education sector is worth nearly $5 trillion worldwide. Bank of America analysts see major growth ahead in worldwide education. Specifically, they believe that drivers of this…
A recent report by Bank of America looked at investment themes for a changing world. One of the areas that the report identified as a source of change is the increasing modern life expectancy. In fact, the number of living people in the world over the age of 60 is expected to double from 841 million in 2013…
Workers took to the streets on Thursday, December 4 in more than 190 cities across the country in an effort to gain a $15 minimum wage. Unrest over the $7.25 per hour federal minimum wage has been growing in recent months, and the fight has shifted from the federal level to the state and city level…
A Morgan Stanley report this week provided some early real-time feedback on this holiday shopping season, and the data looks good for investors. The Number Morgan Stanley’s AlphaWise Real-Time Department Store Sales Tracker indicates a 1.6 percent increase in sales year-over-year for the month of November.
In a recent report, Morgan Stanley released its top stock picks in the international mining sector. Not all stocks sell on American exchanges, but Morgan Stanley provides reasons to go shopping abroad for each of these six companies.
Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 0.41% is a very tough nut to crack. With 237 million worldwide customers, Amazon seems on the surface to be a huge success. In fact, Morgan Stanley analysts predict that Amazon will control 23.5 percent of the worldwide e-commerce market by 2016. Amazon’s revenue and share price highlights the past decade’s growth.
A recent report by Morgan Stanley focused on apparel discounting and gross margins for the month of November. The study used pricing data collected weekly on thousands of apparel items. Discounting Morgan Stanley’s AlphaWise Apparel Discounting Index indicates that apparel discounting for November was nearly identical to the discounting seen in November 2013. During the first half…