Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

The U.S. retail sector is in a great shape. Sales increased 0.8% sequentially in November 2017, after an upwardly revised 0.5% rise in October and breezed past market expectations of a 0.3% rise. On a...

Finance stocks have been gaining momentum on the back of the recent interest rate hikes by the Fed since the end of 2016. A decent interest-rate environment has favored almost all the industries under...

The global telecommunications industry is witnessing rapid technological improvement. Unprecedented growth in high-speed mobile Internet traffic, particularly with respect to wireless data and video,...

Welcome to the eleventh episode of Full-Court Finance, the podcast from Zacks Investment Research focused on the intersection of sports, business and the stock market. On this week’s episode,...

The company behind modern-day electric cars and soon to be semi-trucks and roadster managed to expand its current market capitalization by a whopping $6 billion gain since December 5. This is due to...

In the last letter, I discussed the evidence building up warning that we were getting close to an intermediate top. I had also mentioned that there appeared to be some correlation between GDX...

It seems that cryptocurrency bitcoin doesn’t know where to stop. Its record run in the last one year corroborates this statement. It hit several all-time highs this year, despite caution by...

Shares of Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) surged to hit a new 52-week high on Monday morning after JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) analysts upgraded the once-struggling social media stock.JPMorgan’s Doug...

While the S&P (but not the Dow Industrial Average) enjoyed solid gains on heavy volume accumulation on Friday it was left to Tech Indices to steal the headlines.The NASDAQ closed the week on new...

The Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bbb” and the Long-Term Issue Ratings (Long-Term IRs) on the unsecured debt and preferred shares of Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited (NYSE:AHL) were...

Market futures are up big again to start the week before Christmas, following 4 straight weeks in the green amidst a bona fide Santa Claus rally and indexes that continue to price in the likelihood of...

After negotiating on two versions of the bill already passed by the House and Senate, Republicans unveiled their final tax bill — which would reshape the tax code in three decades, making...

Adobe Systems Incorporated’s (NASDAQ:ADBE) shares increased 1.4%, after reporting fiscal fourth quarter non-GAAP earnings of $1.26 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of...

Benchmarks closed in the green on Friday following optimism that the much awaited Republican tax Bill has now garnered sufficient support from policymakers to enable it to be passed next week. These...