Stock Markets Analysis & Opinion

Shares of Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) climbed 1.5% in morning trading on Friday after Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) upgraded the company from “neutral” to “buy.” Goldman Sachs raised the...

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Dream days of Dow Jones are back again. The index has been hitting record highs in recent sessions and closed at 21,553.09 on July 13. The blue-chip index set out on an astounding rally since...

Bill Ackman had a famously bad time with Valeant Pharmaceuticals (NYSE:VRX), which crashed from $263 to the single digits. Last March, having suffered terrible losses for his fund, Ackman “threw...

GantNews, a CNN News Affiliate, on July 12 reported that Susquehanna Financial Group analyst Pablo Zuanic earlier this week suggested that another bid by Kraft Heinz for Unilever (LON:ULVR) “is...

AXT Inc. (NASDAQ:AXTI), a swing trade of ours, is looking much better. It’s been up for 7 days in a row, broke through lateral resistance, and on Thursday jumped 35 cents, or 5%, to 7.30, on...

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Shares of VeriSign Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN) rallied to a new 52-week high of $97.50, eventually closing a tad lower at $97.18 on Jul 13. The shares have massively outperformed the S&P 500 on a...

It’s finally here, and people like me now have something concrete to talk about: Q2 Earnings Season. It tends to be the quarter that least affects stocks and the market as a whole, based on the...

Riding on higher revenues, The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE:PNC) reported a positive earnings surprise of 4.5% in second-quarter 2017. Earnings per share of $2.10 easily beat the Zacks...

Integrated oil and gas company Royal Dutch Shell (LON:RDSa) plc RDS.A recently announced that its subsidiary, Shell E and P Offshore Services B.V. will execute its contractual right to acquire the...

Investors have shifted their focus toward the second-quarter earnings season, with some of the major banks expected to report results next week. Some of the key sectors expected to contribute to...

Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google finally received some relief in Europe, winning a court battle with French authorities that saved it a massive $1.3 billion (1.12 billion euros) in tax...

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) , a healthcare bellwether, announced that the FDA has approved its pipeline candidate guselkumab for the treatment of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis. The drug...