Call toll-free 800.328.1267
Walmart cratered this week as investors unloaded stay-at-home stocks and shifted toward commodities. Walmart (WMT) might have generated more revenue than expected, and enjoyed better traffic. However it came at a cost to profits, which missed estimates because of...
American Tower is the largest owner of wireless towers, and the largest member of the real-estate sector. It’s been in a long-term uptrend thanks to the spread of wireless communications, having doubled between early 2017 and early 2019. It hit new all-time highs last...
Intel or AMD? The question is almost as old as "Coke or Pepsi?" For years, the two have battled for leadership in the semiconductor market and the stock market. Intel mostly led coming out of the financial crisis but started falling behind in 2016. Now, the charts...
The SPDR Financial ETF quietly did something historic last week: It closed at the highest price ever. This is a big deal because XLF has been trapped at resistance running back to 2007 (before the subprime crisis). It was trying to break the old highs around $31...
The "fear index" just broke 20 for the first time in almost a year. It was one of several milestones suggesting the market sees further recovery from last year's coronavirus pandemic. Cboe's volatility index fell 0.9 point this week to 19.97. It was the lower close on...
Twitter is having its best week in six years as its advertising business finally starts to gain traction. Twitter (TWTR) is up 27 percent since Friday, February 5. That makes it the best-performing member of the S&P 500 for the period. It's also the biggest weekly...
A shortage of semiconductors is sweeping the economy as demand for connectivity surges in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Companies including General Motors (GM), Ford Motor (F), Apple (AAPL) and Enphase Energy (ENPH) have mentioned difficulties obtaining chips...
3-D printing stocks are flying as investors see huge growth for a revolutionary new segment of the technology space. 3D Systems (DDD), Stratasys (SSYS), ExOne (XONE) and Voxeljet (VJET) have more than doubled so far this year. The gains broke years of sideways...
Elon Musk lit another fire under Bitcoin today, parking $1.5 billion of Tesla's cash in the cryptocurrency. Tesla (TSLA) announced the transaction in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing this morning. The move followed a decision by the electric car maker's...