Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

The U.S. market is currently in good shape and favorable economic indicators are likely to aid the performance of consumer staples companies. However, the improved economic scenario may divert...

Each year the stock market provides investors with interesting events and compelling corporate stories which are often hard to predict. However, sometimes a chain of events begins to form that clearly...

Wisdomtree launched a new fund in late December focused on providing exposure to income generating equity and fixed income ETFs.WisdomTree Balanced Income Fund WBAL seeks to track the yield and...

Posting its second annual gain in a row, oil prices closed 2017 up more than 12%. The last week of the year saw U.S. oil benchmark attain its highest settlement since June 2015. The commodity was...

Gold prices hit a three-month high on the last trading day of 2017, drawing curtains on its best yearly performance since 2010. Notably, spot gold was up more than 12% last year. The bullish momentum...

Ecolab Inc. (NYSE:ECL) has recently acquired New York-based Cascade Water Services Inc. The company will be integrated in Ecolab’s Water Business, which is a part of its Global Industrial...

On Jan 3, we issued an updated research report on Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:OREX) . This biopharmaceutical company, based in La Jolla, CA, is focused on the development of obesity...

Allergan plc (NYSE:AGN) , in a regulatory filing, announced that it is laying off over 1,000 employees as part of a cost-saving and restructuring program to protect it from potential revenue...

Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN) advertising push, Alphabet’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Schmidt stepping down and a number of lawsuits against Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) for deliberately slowing down older...

Good day traders!German DAX is catching up the US stock market which moved sharply higher yesterday. DAX is also moving somehow impulsively from the low; it's quite sharp leg up so we think it belongs...

Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) is set to launch a sequel to its highly popular production, Bright starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton. The sequel is expected to feature director David Ayer, according...

The Consumer Staples sector seems well-placed for 2018 with rising consumer confidence, healthy consumer spending, increased business investments and an improved labor market helping stocks in this...

Though there was no spark in the latest Fed minutes, the underlying sense of the minutes reflect the central bank’s faith in economic growth. This is because the unemployment rate slipped to...

Summary: The dollar posted gains following the positive macro data release yesterday as U.S. ISM Manufacturing Index for December printed at 59.7, significantly higher than the previous reading and...