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. […]
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J.C. Penney Is on Its Deathbed, Says the Stock Market
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 […]
Advanced Micro Devices Stock Could Plunge 32% to $8
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 […]
IPO News This Week: 9 Firms Seeking Total of $2 Billion in Capital
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 […]
How you’ll know when it’s time to buy gold
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 […]
Investors are running out of cash — and that’s terrible news for the stock market
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 […]
Inside the Amazon company that’s even bigger than Amazon.com
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 […]
A flawed argument used by Warren Buffett could be setting stocks up for ‘one of the worst disasters in history’
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, […]
Gold eases on firm dollar, stronger equities
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 […]
Busy IPO Season Beckons for Cairo as Reforms Seen Bearing Fruit
At least six Egypt companies plan to list by end of next year Franklin Templeton says state company IPOs would boost market Egypt’s stock market is shaping up to be the Middle East’s hot spot for initial public offerings next year. At least six companies plan IPOs by the end of 2018, following two sales […]
JD.com shares are a better deal than Alibaba’s: Barron’s
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shares of China’s No.2 e-commerce firm JD.com <JD.O> are a better deal for investors than Alibaba Group’s <BABA.N> stock and could rise 30 percent or more over the next year, Barron’s said on Sunday. JD.com’s shares have underperformed Alibaba’s since the beginning of August due to misplaced concerns, and JD.com stands […]
Carl’s Jr. Is Trying to Sell Itself To Amazon Through Tweets, for $1.7 Billion?
Let’s hope that Jeff Bezos likes cheeseburgers. Carl’s Jr., the fast food franchise known for its smutty ads, is mooching on Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN – Get Report) to acquire it through a series of facetious tweets starting early Monday morning, Oct. 9. Along with sister chain Hardee’s, the hamburger-and-hot-dog brand could be worth about $1.7 billion, per […]