Morgan Stanley released a report this week with its outlook for the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate hike. Analysts believe that the Fed’s resolve to raise interest rates in 2015 remains strong, despite weak economic numbers to begin the year.
The site 24/7 Wall St. recently took a look at the March consumer data from Placed and compiled a list of the most popular stores in America. Companies were ranked based on the percentage of American shoppers that visited a store at least once in the month of March.
On Tuesdady, Johnson & Johnson JNJ 1.04% and Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ACHN 1.32% announced this week that they are entering into a collaboration agreement to develop one or more of Achillion’s lead hepatitis C virus (HCV) treatments, including ACH-3102, ACH-3422 and sovaprevir. Shares of Achillion fell nearly 15 percent on Wednesday as shareholders were disappointed…
Since I started writing for Benzinga full-time, I rarely have time to make personal posts on Trading Common Sense anymore. However, I was so thrilled when I found out from my editor this morning that my recent article on generational stock picks was discussed at length on CNBC’s “Halftime Report” show that I had to add a…
TD Ameritrade has shared a new batch of statistics with Benzinga that are focused on investment strategies among different generations of stock market investors. Here’s a breakdown of the most popular stocks (by percentage of TD Ameritrade portfolios containing the stock) over four different generations.
With Gap Inc GPS 0.41% set to release earnings on Thursday after the market closes, now is a good time to take a look at what Wall Street thinks of the clothing retailer. Wall Street consensus estimates for The Gap are currently earnings per share (EPS) of $0.56 on $3.70 billion in revenue. However, not…
In a new report, analysts at Baird Equity Research took a look at U.S. regional banks and presented their near-term outlook for bank stocks. According to analysts, shareholders should keep their expectations low when it comes to a Federal Reserve interest rate hike serving as a positive catalysts for regional banks.
A new report by Jefferies focuses on the value of growth in the software space. According to analysts, “all growth is not created equal,” and the assumption that all growth is equally good for software companies could be a dangerous oversimplification.
There is no doubt cloud computing is the future of data storage. Big name tech companies like Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), Salesforce.com, Inc. CRM 1.85%, International Business Machines Corp. IBM 0.16%, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Oracle Corp (NYSE: ORCL) are investing billions of dollars setting up cloud infrastructure. Why? Because the cloud will be big, and everyone…
With Best Buy Co Inc BBY 3.43% set to release earnings on Thursday before the market open, now is a good time to take a look at what Wall Street is expecting from the electronics retailer. Wall Street consensus for Best Buy is currently earnings per share of $0.29 on $8.49 billion in revenue. However,…