Today's Stock Market News, Jan. 28: Stocks ended in the red on Monday after emerging-market concerns and jitters on future corporate growth left investors rattled. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor's 500 both declined, while the lone bright spot was strong quarterly gains reported by Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT).
With our eye on Opening Bell, here are five stories to watch in today's market:
Corning Inc. (NYSE: GLW) stock traded even yesterday (Monday) ahead of earnings, as analysts predict the company will report an earnings per share (EPS) of $0.27 on revenue of $1.93 billion in the start of a big year for GLW.
While those estimates are down from last year's EPS of $0.34 and revenue of $2.15 billion, that's not a bearish sign for Corning stock investors.
See why GLW could be one of the best investments in 2014...
As a tech investor, I pay a lot of attention to the key trends reshaping our world and setting us up for massive gains.
I've also found that sometimes you can boil down great investment opportunities into a number. In this case its 11.4…the average age of a car on U.S. roads today.
Compared with the new connected car, that's like driving something out of the Flintstones.
See, the connected car is both web and Bluetooth enabled. It's also loaded with complex sensors, sophisticated software, and advanced semiconductors.
This embedded tech ecosystem is one of the big reasons why the industry sold some 15.6 million vehicles last year, in no small part because drivers want their smartphones and cars to stay connected to each other.
Here's the thing. As much as I believe in the connected car, there are many, diverse tech-related ways to cash in on the millions of new vehicles rolling off the assembly lines this year.
The secret to finding the best auto-tech plays is to understand foremost their positioning in this booming sector.
Some companies have arisen on the back of auto-technology, but lack the fundamentals to last…
Others have names as old as the industry itself, yet their technology outpaces much newer, and ostensibly higher-tech, companies…
And then there are some right in-between.
Today, I'll show you three very diverse companies…
Stock Market News Today, Jan. 27: U.S. stocks are compounding last week's selloff, with all three major indices dropping into the red as home sales fell 7% in December.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 41.23 points, or 0.3%, to 15,837.75; the S&P 500 fell 0.5%, or 8.73 points, to 1,781.56; and the Nasdaq fell 1.1%, or 44.56 points, to 4,083.61.
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We've been covering how companies that export liquefied natural gas are a good buy today – but investors can double their profits by also investing in the industry's shipping sector with Teekay LNG stock.
Teekay LNG Partners L.P. (NYSE: TGP) is a master limited partnership formed by Teekay Corp. (NYSE: TK) as part of its strategy to expand operations in the LNG sector.
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by Diane Alter
Dividend stocks update: Last week was painful for investors. The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its steepest weekly slide since November 2011. And the broad-based Standard & Poor's 500 Index had its worst week since June 2012.
But dividend stock investors are comforted knowing a steady stream of income from dividends helps soften the blow of falling stock prices.
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by David Zeiler
It's the worst of both worlds: Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) stock will get hit hard if it reports lousy earnings today after the closing bell, but good earnings won't affect the Apple stock price much at all.
That's the unfortunate legacy of Apple's mega-boom years from 2010-2012, when it posted 50% or higher earnings growth for nine consecutive quarters.
but these iPhone numbers definitely set off alarm bells...
After perusing all the displays at the massive Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month, tech-sector pundits began touting ultra-high-definition television (UHDTV) as one of the next big "breakout" technologies for 2014.
This wasn't a surprise to you.
Back in August, we said that specialty microchip maker Ambarella Inc. (Nasdaq: AMBA) would be a major beneficiary of the UHDTV surge and predicted the stock could double in just over two years.
This stock could easily double from here...
by Tara Clarke
The $2.1 billion Lenovo-IBM deal, announced on Jan. 23, is finally set to complete this Wednesday, and it's a major "Buy" signal for investors.
Five Stories to Watch in the Stock Market Today, Jan. 27:
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