Amazon Worth a Trillion a Year From Now, Says Morgan Stanley Amazon (AMZN) will have as much profit from new lines of business — cloud computing, subscriptions, and advertising — in five years’ time as it does today in retail sales, according to Morgan Stanley’s Brian Nowak, who reiterates an Overweight rating the stock, and a $1,250 […]
A successful investor understands the importance of adding well-performing stocks to the portfolio at the right time. NVIDIA Corporation NVDA is one such technology stock that has been on a healthy growth trajectory of late. Shares of this California-based graphic chip behemoth have rallied nearly 5% since its reported solid third-quarter fiscal 2018 results. Moreover, the stock […]
Yahoo Finance’s call of the week is a series of downgrades on Snap (SNAP), the parent company of Snapchat. UBS, JPMorgan, RBC Capital Markets, Stifel and Morgan Stanley all lowered their ratings on the social media company following its disappointing third-quarter results. The bearish calls sent shares tumbling. The stock is down 16.4% since reporting […]
All revenue categories top estimates except auto hardware sales Nvidia Corp. shares rose almost 4% in premarket trade Friday, extending late-session gains after the Santa Clara, Calif.-based graphic processing unit maker’s quarterly results and revenue outlook topped Wall Street estimates. Nvidia NVDA, +5.27% shares were last up 3.6%. That follows a 1.8% decline in Thursday’s regular session. […]
Like a teen’s pair of jeans, J.C. Penney’s (JCP) stock has been torn to shreds. The department store lowered its full-year same-store sales, profit and earnings forecast Friday, predicting that its sales will be flat at best or fall by 1%. It cut its adjusted earnings from 40 cents to 60 cents to 2 cents […]
The sky is falling for Advanced Micro Devices . Or at least, that’s how it feels. AMD stock fell almost 15% last week and opened Monday’s trading session lower by 6% before bouncing slightly so far in early trading. Analysts at Morgan Stanley downgraded shares of Advanced Micro Devices to underweight from equal weight, moving […]
There were eight initial public offerings (IPOs) on the calendar last week and six succeeded in gaining access to the public markets. The total amount raised over $2 billion and the average first-day pop was around 13.7%. Nine IPO’s are on the coming week’s calendar and they are looking to raise a combined total of […]
Gold market-timers are not bearish enough — yet There is not enough skepticism among gold timers to support a big rally in gold and gold mining shares. But we may be getting close. It was nearly four months ago when I last devoted a column to a contrarian analysis of gold market sentiment. I argued […]
A growing number of firms are sounding the alarm on investor cash levels that have dropped near the lowest levels in history. Low cash levels are a threat to the ongoing equity bull rally, because it signals that investors are running out of money they can use to keep the market going higher. The stock market has […]
Everybody knows what “the cloud” is, right? It’s, like, internet storage or something? Sure. Yeah. I wanted to go a little deeper. I wanted to know exactly what it is, where it is, who owns it, who runs it, and how it works. So I did a little travel, conducted some interviews—and last Sunday, “CBS […]
REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Billionaire investor Warren Buffett made a lot of people feel better about historically stretched stock prices earlier this month. Speaking in an interview with CNBC on October 3, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway said, “Valuations make sense with interest rates where they are.” The investment community breathed a sigh of relief. After all, […]
By Apeksha Nair REUTERS – Gold slipped on Monday on a firmer dollar and stronger Asian equities, but stayed above the key psychological level of $1,300. The metal gained about 0.9 percent on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump warned he might ultimately end a 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran and after data showed underlying […]
