Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

Copper prices rallied to a near four-year high on Dec 27, 2017, driven by strong demand from the world’s largest consumer and robust global economic growth.Factors Driving Copper...

Any industry that is taking giant strides does not miss ETF issuers’ eyes. The marijuana industry is on a tear lately. As per the source, cannabis-related stocks added about 236% in 2016....

The Fed may have enacted three rate hikes this year but geopolitics and mixed U.S. economic readings have kept U.S. Treasury yields at check. U.S. benchmark Treasury bond yields have hovered in the...

Yesterday’s trade started with extremely low volume on Globex, only 33k ES traded, the overnight trading range was only 6 handles from 2683.50 to 2689.50. With many overseas markets closed,...

After posting strong gains late last week, the CAC index is showing little movement. The Paris exchange was closed on Monday and Tuesday. In Wednesday trade, the CAC is at 5367.80, up 0.06% since the...

Thursday, December 28, 2017The 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 Comcast...

McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD), the new favorite of the slow and steady money crown over the past nine months, continues to work its way higher, slow and steady. Although MCD is turning...

Investors are not sure what to do with Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc (NYSE:CMG) right now. The bulls argue that CMG slipped out of its ascending black line bull channel while the bears say the situation...

Earlier this year, Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) did the unthinkable and dropped out of its 6-year ascending brown line channel. Since then, SBUX has consolidated sideways and mounted a charge...

Economic Calendar & Watch ListMorning Notes US Futures are again marginally lower on light holiday trading. Investors will be paying attention to the consumer confidence data to gain insight into...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:AAPL)When the market opened for trading the day after Christmas on December 26,2017, shares of Apple gapped down and traded for the most part of the day in a tight range....

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) stock skidded on Wednesday after an analyst poured cold water on the bullish sentiment that Model 3 deliveries are finally falling in line with expectations. In fact, he...

The rate environment has been favoring life insurers since the Fed started tightening its monetary policy a couple of years back, given the high sensitivity of their business models to interest rates....

Investors have had a great time for most of 2017, as major market indexes broke records on multiple occasions and are on course to create new annual records.Earnings for the S&P 500 increased in...