Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

Shares of Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) rose on Monday after a BMO Capital Markets analyst upgraded the construction equipment giant, just one day before it reports its second-quarter financial...

Shares of Applied Optoelectronics (NASDAQ:AAOI) soared to a new all-time high of $97.75 during morning trading hours on Monday. The scorching hot fiber-optics equipment maker, which is currently a...

The chemical industry is getting its mojo back after a long dry spell. The highly cyclical industry is finally finding traction again after bearing the brunt of the global economic crisis.The industry...

This is a busy week for earnings. In addition to many of the FANG stocks, we’ll hear from half a dozen top restaurant names. The restaurant rally appears to be over as many of the hot restaurant...

Arconic Inc. (NYSE:ARNC) logged profit, as reported, of $212 million or 43 cents per share for the second quarter of 2017. The results in the reported quarter include $47 million of special items...

Shares of multiple sporting goods companies were down in morning trading on Monday after Hibbett Sports (NASDAQ:HIBB) announced that it expects a big second quarter drop off in a key sales...

Popular music streaming company Spotify is close to a new licensing deal with Warner Music. Both parties believe that a deal could be signed by September.According to Reuters, this is the last big...

I’ve always been a huge fan of Nassim Taleb, author of the often-referenced book “The Black Swan.” In 16th century Europe, it was presumed that all swans must be white because every...

The Bank of Japan on July 20, 2017 kept its benchmark interest rate steady at -0.1%, while cutting its inflation forecast for the fiscal year-ended March 2018 and March 2019. The Bank of Japan’s...

The euro has been on a tear lately, being at a two-year high against the greenback last week. Heightened speculation over the European Central Bank’s (ECB) possible announcement of the QE wind...

“Summertime” is the aria in the opera Porgy and Bess (1935) composed by George Gershwin. The song became a popular and much-recorded jazz standard, with more than 33,000 covers by groups...

One mystery trader has made an extremely large bet that the stock market is going to crash by October, and if he is right he could potentially make up to 262 million dollars on the deal. Fortunes were...

In terms of the technicals, the technology sector is way overbought.The energy and telco sectors are way oversold. There are far better technicians than me that you can read every day on Twitter,...

Shares of WebMD Health (NASDAQ:WBMD) skyrocketed 19.59% in premarket trading on Monday following news that private equity firm KKR & Co. (NYSE:KKR) will buy the online health publisher for...