Apple pops on Goldman note
Opens $3.79 (1.2%) higher after the firm resumes coverage with a $430 price target Goldman Sachs (GS), one of the few major U.S. investing firms that wasn't covering Apple (AAPL), resumed coverage...
View ArticleApple hits record high $364.92
After a five months of jagged ups and downs, AAPL overtakes a record set on Feb. 16, 2011 Investors who stuck with Apple (AAPL) through thick and thin this year got their earthly reward Friday. With...
View ArticleHow NOT to bet on Apple's quarterly earnings report
Buying puts or calls just before the numbers come out is a fool's game Apple (AAPL) is a company that tends to surprise Wall Street every time it reports its quarterly earnings, usually on the upside,...
View ArticleFortune 500: 20 biggest stock losers
The stock market may have reached new highs, but not all were part of the party, including the usual suspects, J.C. Penney and IBM.
View ArticleGoldman drops its bearish ways, anticipates U.S. bull market
Goldman Sachs GS is swapping its bearish outlook on the S&P 500 to become one of the most bullish firms on Wall Street, according to a note sent to clients. The firm raised its expectations for the...
View ArticleThe single, best way to tell whether stocks are worth it
Investors have come down with a case of the jitters, and for a good reason. Since September 22, the Dow has careened through three days of 100 point-plus losses. The gigantic pop in the Alibaba IPO and...
View ArticleDon’t count on a soft landing for stocks
The recent stock market selloff has investors worried that equities are overpriced, maybe extremely overpriced. If that's the case--and all measures suggest that it is--what trajectory is the eventual...
View ArticleThe biggest threat to CEO pay, for the short-term
The way CEO pay has grown over the past 30 years, you might think it's bound to keep growing indefinitely. But if a suddenly stagnant market falls, we could see a stumble in top-level compensation, at...
View ArticleStock market plunge: Why oil matters
Oil is proving to be a much bigger slick for the stock market than most people assumed. On Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell, dropping nearly 500 points at one point in the day before...
View ArticleDon’t buy this, buy that! 55 stocks to own in 2015
Sometimes the smartest actions are the ones you don't take. That old dictum seems relevant at a moment when the markets are a paradox: Each new high only makes many veteran investors more nervous that...
View ArticleWhat Wall Street missed: The market’s biggest surprise in 2014
Be wary when Wall Street calls something a safe bet. About a year ago, Bob Doll, a well-followed strategist at Nuveen Investments, put rising interest rates on his list of top 10 projections for 2014....
View ArticleCoffee and 4 other surprisingly great investments of 2014
It was another good year for investors. Some thought too good. The New York Times coined the term the “Everything Bubble.” Hedge funder Paul Jones said the market was so good it had to be faked. Noble...
View ArticleGoldman drops its bearish ways, anticipates U.S. bull market
Goldman Sachs GS is swapping its bearish outlook on the S&P 500 to become one of the most bullish firms on Wall Street, according to a note sent to clients. The firm raised its expectations for the...
View ArticleThe single, best way to tell whether stocks are worth it
Investors have come down with a case of the jitters, and for a good reason. Since September 22, the Dow has careened through three days of 100 point-plus losses. The gigantic pop in the Alibaba IPO and...
View ArticleDon’t count on a soft landing for stocks
The recent stock market selloff has investors worried that equities are overpriced, maybe extremely overpriced. If that's the case--and all measures suggest that it is--what trajectory is the eventual...
View ArticleThe biggest threat to CEO pay, for the short-term
The way CEO pay has grown over the past 30 years, you might think it's bound to keep growing indefinitely. But if a suddenly stagnant market falls, we could see a stumble in top-level compensation, at...
View ArticleStock market plunge: Why oil matters
Oil is proving to be a much bigger slick for the stock market than most people assumed. On Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell, dropping nearly 500 points at one point in the day before...
View ArticleDon’t buy this, buy that! 55 stocks to own in 2015
Sometimes the smartest actions are the ones you don't take. That old dictum seems relevant at a moment when the markets are a paradox: Each new high only makes many veteran investors more nervous that...
View ArticleWhat Wall Street missed: The market’s biggest surprise in 2014
Be wary when Wall Street calls something a safe bet. About a year ago, Bob Doll, a well-followed strategist at Nuveen Investments, put rising interest rates on his list of top 10 projections for 2014....
View ArticleFortune 500: 20 biggest stock losers
The stock market may have reached new highs, but not all were part of the party, including the usual suspects, J.C. Penney and IBM.
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....