Stock Picks In the United States, Black Friday tends to be a holiday onto itself.  Black Friday is the name given to the Friday after Thanksgiving and marks the kick off to the holiday shopping season.  This shopping day  is often the largest, most profitable ...

Stock Picks Even in the toughest of economic environments, there are industries and sectors that continue to perform well and even prosper in uncertain markets.  The fact is that no matter how bad the economy may be, people need to eat, fuel their vehicles, and ...

Stock Charts Day trading Agilent Technologies stock (NYSE:A) using the 30-second chart increased my profit and loss statement by 235 US dollars yesterday. A single trade was enough to make 45 cents per share in 6 minutes. One of my day trading rules is to follow the ...

Stock News Professional investors love to watch see where the whales are investing, and on Monday they got a glimpse of where the billionaires are putting their money with the release of the 13F filings.  Among the most noteworthy was the announcement that super-investor ...

Stock Picks It has been a difficult time to be a global bank investor, to say the least, as the crisis in Europe continues on and the US economy remains painfully sluggish.  As the news of Italy’s troubles spread, new concerns arose of the health of the Euro ...

Stock Picks MEMC Electronic Materials shares traded in the lows of the 52-week range last week, but found support for the third time at $4.50 and were up 3.90% on Friday, indicating possible bullish reaction this week. MEMC Electronic Materials stock (NYSE:WFR) has ...

Stock News Friday morning saw US markets continuing their move upward as investors remain hopeful that the long standing European debt issues are at last being addressed, and on a better than anticipated US consumer sentiment report.  The trend continued into mid-day ...

Stock Picks A spike in Italian bond yields to levels not previously seen in the Euro zone sent global markets spiraling downward on Wednesday morning as uncertainty over the ability of a new government in Italy to tackle the country’s debt crisis frightened ...

Stock News 2011 has proved to be a tough year for stocks in the tech sector.  Just look at the performance of the tech-heavy NASDAQ, an index that is up only 1.2% year-to-date, indicating little buying interest in tech stocks, and marking a flat performance for ...

Stock Picks The US economy has been on a seemingly never-ending treadmill as of late.  Primarily consumer spending driven, the economy has stalled on low consumer confidence levels, exacerbated by continuous media coverage of said low confidence levels, slow job ...