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Notable Insider Buys In The Past Week: General Electric, Symantec And More
Monday, August 19, 2019 - 5:22pm | 708Insider buying can be an encouraging signal for potential investors. Insider purchasing was seen at companies favored by Carl Icahn and George Soros last week. The CEO of an industrial giant put his money where his mouth is as well. Conventional wisdom says that insiders and 10% owners really...
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Bulls & Bears Of The Week: AT&T, Facebook, GE, Microsoft And More
Sunday, February 3, 2019 - 11:40am | 830Benzinga has featured looks at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included social media and cloud computing giants. Bearish calls included a crumbling conglomerate and a top drugmaker. Last week, the partial federal government shutdown ended, but just in time for a...
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Benzinga's Weekly Bulls & Bears: Apple, Eli Lilly, GE, Nike And More
Saturday, January 20, 2018 - 5:50pm | 836Benzinga has featured a look at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls featured the iPhone maker and the world's largest retailer. Bearish calls included an iconic conglomerate and a pharma giant. The markets again are hitting new all-time highs, even with...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Best Dividend Stocks, Symantec, GoldCorp And More
Sunday, August 28, 2016 - 11:47am | 713This weekend's Barron's takes a look at 10 dividend stocks with hefty yields and the best prospects for growth. The prospects for a leading fertilizer maker and a software security pioneer are also examined. Other featured articles ponder the prospects for a top gold mining stock and a modular...
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Short Interest On The Rise In Akamai Technologies And Juniper Networks
Thursday, April 28, 2016 - 9:08am | 528Short interest moves in many of the leading cybersecurity stocks were mixed in the most recent period. Short sellers were particularly keen on two of them in those two weeks. Shares of both stocks slumped more than 7 percent during the period. While short interest moves in the leading...
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Short Interest In First Majestic Silver And Harmony Gold Doubles
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 - 1:52pm | 782Short interest in a number of stocks surged in the most recent settlement period. Two precious metals miners were among those stocks leading that trend in the final weeks of March. Shares of both of them rose in the period, as did the broader markets. As the first quarter drew to a close, it...
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Symantec Surges As Activist Investor Is Building A Large Stake
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 10:46am | 264Shares of Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) were trading higher by nearly 10 percent ahead of Friday's opening bell after the company announced it has received a $500 million strategic investment by Silver Lake. In connection with Silver Lake's investment, the company's Board of...
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The Year-Long Chain Of Retailer Data Breaches
Friday, October 17, 2014 - 3:15pm | 1063The Wall Street Journal reported on December 18, 2013 that Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) had been the victim of an "extensive theft" of customers' credit and debit card data. Understandably, consumers panicked and investors worried. The timing couldn't have been worse, as...
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Tech, Semiconductors Among Worst Performers As Sell-Off Continues
Friday, October 10, 2014 - 5:06pm | 2294U.S. stocks continued to sell off on Friday on higher than usual volume. Semiconductor stocks were hit hard following Microchip's profit warning and cautious sector-wide comments. The rest of the tech sector was weak, especially "momentum" and high-beta stocks as the Nasdaq index...
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Markets Marginally Lower Ahead Of Earnings Season
Monday, July 7, 2014 - 4:37pm | 1929U.S. stocks were slightly lower as investors digested a report by Goldman Sachs speculating that the Fed Funds rate may be increased in the third quarter of 2015, earlier than expected. Earnings season unofficially kicks off this week with Alcoa (NYSE: AA) reporting on Tuesday. Many Dow...
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3 Security Software Picks With Room To Run?
Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 10:21am | 945In a research report released this week, the analysts at Oppenheimer pointed out that cybersecurity remains a top priority for both corporations and government entities. Among the companies they have an eye on are FireEye (NASDAQ: FEYE), Imperva (NYSE: IMPV) and Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW...
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Market Wrap For March 21: Markets End Friday On A Negative Note, But Still Positive For The Week
Friday, March 21, 2014 - 4:38pm | 2353U.S. stocks slipped to negative territory aided in part by Friday being a quadruple witching trading session. Major indices sold off in the afternoon as investors likely took some chips off the table going in to an uncertain weekend with the situation in Ukraine far from resolved. The S&P...
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Top Trending Tickers On StockTwits For March 21
Friday, March 21, 2014 - 9:26am | 730Here's a look at the top tickers trending on StockTwits.com. Tiffany: Earnings miss This morning, Tiffany & Co (NYSE: TIF) reported its fourth quarter results. The company announced an EPS of $1.47, missing the consensus estimate of $1.52. Revenue of $1.29 billion missed the consensus...
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Market Wrap For January 30: Markets Focus on Good News
Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 6:06pm | 2831U.S. stocks rose on Thursday as investors and traders focused on the positives. Data showed that the economy expanded in the fourth quarter as consumer spending gained traction. "Today the market is focused on the good news, or the developed world," Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at...
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of January 27: Facebook, Google, Apple And More
Monday, January 27, 2014 - 7:56am | 982The earnings crunch is on this week. Highlights will include reports from Amazon.com, Apple, Boeing, Comcast, Facebook, Google and Yahoo! All of them are expected to report year-over-year growth in per-share earnings. But analysts are looking for declining profits from the likes of Caterpillar,...