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The last week of earnings saw big rallies by old-fashioned retailers. Software companies also beat estimates, but failed to advance. Foot Locker (FL) led the charge by crushing consensus on its top and bottom lines. Same-store sales, a key metric showing the...
Forget about trade wars. The big story with China this year may be the runaway rally in the country's technology sector. The Golden Dragon Index ($HXC) has surged 9 percent in the last month and is up 28 percent so far in 2019. That's more than twice the gains of the...
Everyone's waiting for Lyft and Uber to go public. Did you know Russia's top Internet stock is also active in the ride-sharing space? Last month, Yandex (YNDX) reported 216 percent revenue growth for its Taxi division as ridership more than doubled. The service...
Gold's one of the world's oldest measures of value. It's also one of of the most actively traded commodities, thanks to CME's Comex Gold Futures. These contracts use the symbol root GC and track 100 troy ounces of gold. That means every point represents $100 of change...
Market Insights has covered the split between the new winners and losers in technology. Something similar seems to be underway in the health-care sector. Drug makers whose products offer the promise of growth have led. These includes biotechnology stocks, which keep...
Stocks kept testing a key resistance level last week amid signs of a potential economic slowdown. The S&P 500 rose 0.4 percent between Friday, February 22, and Friday, March 1. That helped deliver a 3 percent gain for February. It was also the ninth positive week...
Most retail stocks are well below their 52-week highs, but one niche in particular is breaking out: sneaker and footwear companies. Foot Locker's (FL) blowout quarter today is the latest example of the trend. Not only did earnings and revenue beat estimates. The key...
A hospital company drowning in liabilities just reported good results. Now a trader is using options to position for a comeback. Here's a breakdown of the strategy detected yesterday afternoon in Community Health (CYH): 20,000 September 4 puts were sold for...
TradeStation clients kept their focus on major technology names as markets plodded higher in February. Just two symbols changed on our monthly ranking. General Electric (GE) returned to the Top 10 and was the only non-technology stock to make the cut. Video game maker...