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New research shows that analysts are unduly influenced by what is going on close to home.

The SEC could soon let investment advisors hire celebrity endorsers. What could possibly go wrong?

Zynga's stock price has over 10% room for growth, in our view. The company's fair price estimate based on expected 2019 earnings is $7, according to Trefis estimates, which compares with a near $6 current market price. Z...

Drillers are laying down rigs, hydraulic-fracturing equipment sits idle and U.S. energy producers are promising fiscal restraint. Yet domestic oil and gas production keeps rising.

The epic growth in fracking that recently turned the U.S. into a net exporter of petroleum products has spawned entirely new industries. One of them is the supply of sand.

HP Inc.'s stock price grew over 60% from around $14 levels in October 2016 to around $23 in October 2018, primarily driven by higher sales in the notebook market. The sales growth during this period was also aided by an ...

Zillow Group, an American online real estate database company, which operates the largest portfolio of real estate and home-related brands on mobile and the web, focusing on all stages of the home lifecycle: renting, buy...

A steady rise in Treasury yields has investors putting the brakes on their contributions to U.S. bond funds.

World Wrestling Entertainment, a sports entertainment company, has seen its stock price decline by 20% over the past month, following a mixed set of Q3 results that saw the company's revenues and profits decline year-ove...

Yes, Bed Bath & Beyond looks slightly undervalued. As per Trefis, the price estimate of Bed Bath & Beyond's Stock is $14, which is about 4% above the closing price on 13th November, 2019. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. is an omn...

Sluggish retail-sales growth indicates consumers can't be the economy's only engine.

What we have warned about for so long, the IRS Chief Counsel has now expressly stated in an Advice Memorandum. Deal with it.

Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR), a company that specializes in medical devices for radiation oncology treatments, has seen its stock price rise by 10% over the last month, driven in part by reasonably strong Q4 FY'19 ...

On September 4, 2003, Nike acquired Converse for $315 million - two years after the latter filed for bankruptcy. Converse had annual sales of just over $200 million at the time of acquisition. Fast forward 16 years to Ni...

Comedian Bill Maher has a line he uses from time to time: "I don't know it for a fact, I just know it's true." Here is an example of that, which will be of interest to anyone who is at all concerned about the mounting ev...

For the last 15 quarters, Amazon's retail revenue growth has averaged 26.3% versus eBay's 6.5% (on a year-on-year basis). However, the last four quarters have seen significant weakness with Amazon's retail revenue growth...

American Airlines (NASDAQ: AAL) is the largest airline in the world in terms of fleet size, revenues generated as well as passengers carried. In 2018, it operated 956 mainline aircraft and 595 regional aircraft in its fl...

As private equity investors continue to seek the next healthcare services market to consolidate, dental laboratories may be in line for the crown.

A sweeping federal enforcement initiative aimed at sales practices related to retirement savings for teachers began after the nation's top securities regulator heard things in town halls that worried him.

The market keeps driving higher, whatever gets thrown at it. The trade news this morning sounds good, but we all know how quickly that can change. Nvidia earnings also seemed relatively strong, and the company got some u...

Electronic Arts' (NASDAQ: EA) fair price estimate based on expected fiscal 2020 earnings is $106, according to Trefis estimates. This reflects around a 10% premium to the current market price. Electronic Arts is an inter...

The defining moment of 2019 so far is the incredible cross-asset rally that took place from the bottom of the Christmas Eve 2018 massacre all the way through the low of the 10-year Treasury yield in the first week of Sep...