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Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) stock has nearly tripled since Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer took over in July 2012. But an 8.7% slip today (Wednesday) after a down revenue report has investors wondering whether Mayer's bullish touch is coming to an end.
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by Diane Alter
Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) stock is down about 1% today ahead of its Q4 earnings report, due out after the bell.
Here are the estimates:
This is an ominous sign for shareholders...
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting today will be U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's last before handing off the reins to Janet Yellen on Saturday.
As Bernanke sits in for his last meeting this week, we answered three of the most commonly asked questions our readers have been sending us about today's FOMC meeting and the possible outcomes:
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Today's Biggest Stock Market News, Jan. 29:
Five Stories for This Morning
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When it comes to the bioscience sector, the amount of misinformation some so-called "analysts" spread around the blogosphere on any given day is nothing less than breathtaking.
And frankly, I'm not sure whether most of the nonsense comes from ignorance – they just don't understand the science, the regulatory gauntlet, or the doctors who will be prescribing new products.
Or worse – trying to manipulate the market to help out friends holding positions in the stocks they "analyze."
by Diane Alter
The biotech boom that began last year has triggered triple-digit gains in some of the best penny stocks to buy today.
Some of our top penny stocks in biotech recommended last year gained as much as 440%, 231%, and 214%. And the biotech sector is going to keep surging – especially the sector's best low-priced buys.
With that in mind, following are three of the best penny stocks in biotech.
Market watchers have been pointing to selloffs in emerging markets like Turkey, Argentina, and Thailand as a reason to be cautious about investing in stocks today.
But falling share prices aren't a problem if you know where to look…
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by Tara Clarke
Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) will report Q4 earnings after closing bell on Tuesday, and there's a record on the line. Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer has a perfect track record for beating estimates in every quarter since she took the reins in 2012.
The digital media giant has beaten its per-share profit projections in each of the past seven quarters. And Yahoo! (YHOO) stock has always responded favorably, averaging a single-day, post-earnings gain of 2.2%.
SOTU 2014: U.S. President Barack Obama will deliver his fifth State of the Union address tonight, which means tomorrow most media outlets will graph and "wordcloud" his most used buzzwords like "jobs," "invest," and "innovate."
Instead of waiting until after the SOTU, we put together the nine phrases you're likely to hear tonight – as well as why President Obama needs to address them.
Here's your outline of State of the Union 2014:
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by Diane Alter
Best investments for the week ending Jan. 24, 2014: Stocks tumbled last week as investors fled global markets amid soft data out of China, and traders dumped crumbling emerging market currencies.
Disappointing Q4 earnings from a number of U.S. companies, including Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) and Coach Inc. (NYSE: COH), also weighed on markets.
For the week, the Dow dropped 3.5% or 580 points, falling back below the 16,000 level to end at 15,879. The S&P shed 48 points, or 2.6%, slumping below 1,800 to end at 1,790. And the Nasdaq slipped 1.7%, or 69 points, to 4,128.
But Money Morning never slips – investors can always count on us to interpret the big market-moving events, sift through earnings reports, and share the best stocks to buy now.
Here's a recap from last week:
