Topic: Alan Lancz

Tech Stocks Lead In Early Afternoon Trading

Stocks were again mixed in early afternoon trading Tuesday. Stratasys (SSYS) gapped up and bolted 17% to a new high. It opened above a 29.40 buy point in a cup-with-handle base. Stratasys' earnings tumbled 63% to 28 cents a share last ...

Market Slumps into Mid Week

Stocks Pulled back mid day around 2%, and few think about the fact that they have run 10% since bottom May 5th post Flash Crash.  The Fed news sent a few Global shivers to fan this broad based sell off.  I would ...

No margin for error in Wall St bill's final test

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats will have little margin for error this week as they push for final congressional approval of the most comprehensive rewrite of financial rules since the Great Depression.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hopes to take up the sweeping legislation ...
Options may be a relatively obscurity even to veteran investors, but the concept behind them actually dates back to around 600 B.C.. Known formally as the CBOE Volatility Index and informally as the "fear index," the VIX is a high-octane hedging ...
North American stocks rose Monday following the biggest month-to-month employment gain for Americans since December 2007.Today on Stockhouse Your opinion matters. Submit an article to Stockhouse today at submissions@stockhouse.com. Submission guidelines can be found here. Gene Arensberg explains why ...
The manufacturing sector expanded above analysts' expectations in March at the fastest rate of growth since July 2004, suggesting that the economic recovery underway is picking up some steam.. When the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) released its manufacturing index at 10 ...
As Wall Street moves into the one-year anniversary of the market's bottom, shareholders of firms in the financial sector could face a disappointing year ahead if they expect gains anywhere close to what they've realized in the past 12 months ...
European markets also rose following new plans by European Union leaders to push Greece to get its budget under control.European officials gave Greece one month to prove it can cut its deficits.Debt problems in European countries including Greece, Portugal and ...

The Wide World of Dividend Stocks

An earlier version of this story inaccurately quoted Thornburg portfolio manager Cliff Remily in his discussion of BP. BP), China Mobile (CHL), Diageo (DEO), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) remain lucrative options for income-hungry U.S. investors.. "If you only ...

U.S. companies' sales turnaround may be misleading

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. companies' sales are expected to rise for the first time since the third quarter of 2008, but it may be too soon for investors to cheer the turnaround as proof the economy is about to take off ...