Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) stocks have a long and demonstrable history of outperforming the market over a 1-3 month time period. This unique ranking is only bestowed upon the top 5% of all stocks...

North Korean premier Kim Jong-Un ushered in 2018 with a speech that rattled investors. He warned the United States and said that he has a nuclear button on his desk that might be used in case his...

Any stock-focused article about the past year has to begin with the most obvious fact: 2017 was an incredible year for stocks.Cryptocurrencies—with their astronomical returns—may have...

The year 2017 was great for the market with the S&P 500-based ETF SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:SPY) (AX:SPY) , SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average (SI:SPDR) ETF DIA and PowerShares QQQ ETF QQQ adding...

(0:15) - 2017: The Year of Tech Stocks(2:30) - Emerging Small Cap Stocks To Watch In 2018(9:20) - Episode Roundup: Podcast@Zacks.comOn today’s episode of the Tech Talk Tuesday podcast, Ryan...

Heading into the New Year, both oil and natural gas futures experienced noticeable upticks on healthy storage draws.On the news front, energy explorer SandRidge Energy, Inc. (NYSE:SD) called off its...

After a great 2017 (for stocks), investors will now be mulling over what’s in store for this year. Chances are high that optimism will be quelled a bit. Trump bump is largely baked in now and...

Shares of Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) were up more than 4.5% in morning trading Tuesday as analysts praised the video streaming company’s original content strategy and reignited rumors that the...

As 2018 begins investors try to decide what the best investments are to get into. Last year it was marijuana stocks and technology companies. Will 2018 repeat the same trend? Probably not. When the...

Tuesday, January 2, 2018The Zacks Research Daily presents the best research output of our analyst team. Today's Research Daily features new research reports on 16 major stocks, including JPMorgan...

I spent a lot of time in the 2017 End of Year Special Edition looking back across 2017. I covered some of my best charts and market/macro calls of the year (and some of the worst!), along with my...

Monthly S&P 500 Emini futures candlestick chart: Unprecedented rally The monthly S&P 500 Emini futures candlestick chart has gone for an entire year with every low above the low of the prior...

It wasn't a big sell-off on Friday, but there was a downward break of the bullish squeeze in the Russell 2000. It was associated with a MACD trigger 'sell' although this had effectively flatlined from...

NASDAQ Short Term Elliott Wave view suggests that the Index is correcting the rally from 12/5 low (6232.3). While dips remain above Intermediate wave (4) at 6232.3, expect Index to extend higher....