by David Mamos
Smartphones and tablets probably wouldn't exist were it not for Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW), and yet the venerable company has not reaped the monster profits from the mobile revolution that tech companies like Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) have enjoyed.
Corning is the primary manufacturer of Gorilla Glass, the scratch- and shatter-resistant glass used in the touchscreens of many of today's smartphones and tablets.
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by Diane Alter
The Nasdaq topped 4,000 on Monday, its highest level in 13 years.
The tech-heavy index gained 11 points, or 0.3%, to reach 4,003 shortly after the opening bell amid a broad-based rally that also sent the Dow and S&P 500 higher. The Nasdaq peaked at 4,007.09, before shedding some gains and ending the session up 2.92 points, or 0.07%, at 3,994.57.
The Nasdaq flirted with the 4,000 threshold last week, closing at 3,991.64, up 0.14%, or 6 points. Year to date, the benchmark is up a whopping 32.20%.
This is where you want to be invested in right now..
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One in every 10 lightbulbs in the United States gets its power from Russian fuel. It's been that way ever since 1993, when the Megatons to Megawattsprogram began.
Under this agreement, the highly enriched uranium (HEU) contained in ex-Soviet nuclear weapons was downblended and converted into nuclear fuel.
It was a win-win arrangement. Americans got the nuclear fuel they needed; the Russians got the hard currency they needed. And the world got a cleaner, less dangerous environment, as around 20,000 warheads were stood down.
But this era is rapidly coming to a close. The very last shipment of the program's uranium recently left St. Petersburg, Russia, for Baltimore, Maryland.
By the end of December, the deal that helped provide about half of all commercial nuclear power in the United States… will simply end.
And that's going to open up a fantastic opportunity for us...
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On Nov. 11, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. set a company record for most sales in a 24-hour period when $5.7 billion was exchanged over its network of websites.
That's nearly four times the $1.46 billion in online sales logged on the United States' largest online shopping day of the year – "Cyber Monday" – in 2012.
This will be the most important IPO of 2014...
by Diane Alter
More and more companies today seek to attract investors by offering dividend payouts – and yield-hungry investors love their dividend stocks.
The Wall Street Journal noted on Nov. 18 that 51 of the top 100 Nasdaq stocks currently pay dividends. That's in stark contrast to December 1999, when a mere nine of the top 100 Nasdaq companies paid dividends.
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by Tim Melvin
Insider buying has been proven to have significant predictive power for stock prices – which is why we like to make a list of possible "insider" stocks to buy.
No one knows more about the condition and prospects of a business than the chief executive officer (CEO) and chief financial officer (CFO). When insiders like them buy stocks in the open market of the companies they control, the stock often outperforms the broader market for the next several years.
According to Nejat Seyhun, a professor and researcher in the field of insider trading at the University of Michigan, when insiders are buying shares in their own companies, the stock tends to outperform the total market by 8.9% over the next 12 months.
it's time for investors to go shopping...
Stock Market News Today, Nov. 25: Stocks are trading a bit higher this morning, with the Nasdaq topping 4,000 for the first time since 2000 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 primed for another record day.
The biggest market news today: Global leaders reached a deal with Iran regarding its nuclear program.
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by Sid Riggs
We've already reviewed a number of the seven catalysts, or "sparks," I look for in a company before I recommend it to subscribers of my Small-Cap Rocket Alert.
Industry rotation… big contracts… earnings revisions…
Finding just one of these "sparks" can lead you to extreme upside potential… But identifying two or more "lighting up" the same stock is even better.
So today I want to give you an eighth spark – one that just unveiled a potential 1,300% biotech gain for my readers last week. Then I'm going to show you how to find it on your own.
It's easy, once you know how to read this form...
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This year has seen the busiest U.S. IPO market since 2007, with 199 companies already going public.
Their performance has investors fearing we've hit IPO market bubble territory.
Of the year's 199 IPOs, 23% priced above their initial IPO ranges.
Through the first two weeks of November, 16 companies have doubled their initial public offering price. Six companies doubled their IPO price on the first day of trading alone.
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by David Zeiler
You'd better start getting used to the idea of virtual currency.
While the much talked about Bitcoin is the most prominent and widely used virtual currency, it is not the only one.
Bitcoin is not even the first, as the earliest digital currencies emerged as far back as the early 1990s (most of them are long gone).
other forms of money just aren't capable of this...
