It turns out gun makers like Smith & Wesson Holding Corp SWHC 2.34% and Sturm, Ruger & Company RGR 0.85% may not have had as bad of an August as the FBI background check data for the month seemed to indicate. Gun stocks have sold off hard in recent weeks following the release of the…
Prior to the widespread availability of the internet, Wall Street insiders had a huge advantage when it came to access to information about public companies. Individual investors would often read about market-moving news in the newspaper the next day or in a company’s annual report once it arrived in the mail.
Goldman Sachs clients have been flooding the bank with questions about how gold performs under two conditions: a falling stock market and rising interest rates. The questions seemingly stem from growing market concern over the impact of future Federal Reserve rate hikes, particularly if the hikes trigger a pullback in the stock market.
Some traders and journalists have speculated that the recent selloff in the S&P 500 was not related to concerns over a September Federal Reserve rate hike. Instead, they point to steepening yield curves, particularly in Japan, as what has spooked investors.
In the middle of all the market turmoil in the past few days, Apple Inc. AAPL 1.17% has surged 4.4 percent Wednesday to hit a new 2016 high.
The latest data from TickerTags indicates that Wells Fargo & Co WFC 1.28%’s reputation has taken quite a hit on social media in the wake of its fraud settlement.
In a series of new notes out this week, Wunderlich analyst Bill Choi updated his outlook on several top cybersecurity stocks. Here’s an overview of what he had to say about each.
Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have been campaigning hard to convince Americans that they can fix the U.S. economy and “make America great again” with their respective policy agendas. Ironically, a new survey from Bankrate indicates that a majority of Americans see the election as the primary threat to the economy.
The most recent Quicken Loans study of homeowner value perceptions revealed that the disparity between appraiser and homeowner opinions of home values continued to narrow in August.
Every so often, headlines of a credit rating downgrade will be followed by news of a 10 or 20 percent drop in a stock’s share price. While most long-time investors are familiar with the idea that credit rating upgrades are good and downgrades are bad, they are not all familiar with the nuisances of what…