Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

Amid what has been a hair-raising few days throughout the global stock market, traders focused on cryptocurrencies have had an even-rougher stretch. On the back of significant slumps in bellwether...

Current Position of the MarketS&P 500: Long-term trend – The bull market is continuing with a top expected in the low 3000s. Intermediate trend – Is this an intermediate-term top?...

As you are, or should be, aware, the big market plunge on Friday came as no surprise to us – it was predicted just a few days before in the article Broad US Stock Market Meltup update, in which...

Just a quick heads-up to mention that major support for the SPX sits between 2525 and 2485, as shown on the following daily and monthly charts.There is a convergence of the 200-day moving average with...

How bad was last week’s rout in US equities? The slide is the biggest weekly drop for the S&P 500 Index in over two years. But that’s not saying much, given how calm the upside bias...

Shares of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) surged nearly 2% higher in early morning trading Monday, defying broader market trends that sent major indexes lower—and helping erase some of the tech...

Paylocity Holding Corporation (NASDAQ:PCTY) is slated to release second-quarter fiscal 2018 results on Feb 8. The question lingering on investors’ minds is if this provider of cloud-based...

The earnings picture for the energy sector is shaping up remarkably well. Energy once again is expected to be the biggest contributor to the S&P 500 earnings growth with total earnings for the...

In this Global Week Ahead, another 90 fourth quarter (Q4) S&P 500 earnings results hit the tape. The names include GM, Walt Disney and Kellogg.Earnings growth — the stock market’s main...

Suncor Energy Inc. (NYSE:SU) will release fourth-quarter 2017 results after the market closes on Feb 7.In the preceding period, the Canadian energy giant reported better-than-expected results on...

A series of curious events occurred last Friday morning, which continued — Rube Goldberg-like — throughout the day and, it may be argued, even into this morning’s pre-market trading...

Shares of Aon plc (NYSE:AON) declined 0.6% after reporting fourth quarter 2017 earnings per share of $2.35, less than $2.56 a share in the year ago quarterShares of Phillips 66 (NYSE:PSX) declined...

Markets ended in negative territory on Friday following the addition of a staggering number of jobs to the U.S. economy. The report led to a surge in interest rates, resulting in benchmark 10-year...

On Feb 2, we issued an updated research report on Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. (NYSE:TMO) , a leading scientific instrument maker. The stock has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).Thermo Fisher ended the...