The top equity strategist at Merrill Lynch has updated the High Quality and Dividend Yield screen of stocks to buy, adding some names that may provide investors solid 2014 returns.

Dispersion strategies can bring big profits to those with superior stock picking skills.

The equity strategy team at J.P. Morgan presented a new research report that actually makes a very solid case not only for equities, but for equities with higher emerging market exposure. Here are 10 picks ...

Box, which counts Dropbox among its rivals, has reportedly filed to go public.

Friday is a strange day in the markets. The month of January is closing out with the first monthly January loss in three years, after a huge 2013 of course. Yet there were six initial public offerings ...

Six IPOs hit the market Friday , and three of them were biotechs. What stands out is that these emerging pharma deals came on the heels of a wildly successful biotech IPO on Thursday.

January 29, 2014: Markets opened lower on Wednesday following Tuesday’s late policy rate hike by the Turkish government. The announcement that the Fed will again reduce its asset purchases added more volatility ...

As of January 15, short interest in several semiconductor stocks increased as investors continued to bet against PC processors and memory chips in favor of mobile devices. With only a couple of exceptions, ...

We continue to track the short interest changes in the primary 3D printer and services companies. The following information is based on data reported for the period ended January 15, 2014. Short interest ...

The equity research team at Jefferies has come out with a list of their stocks to buy that have been ambushed hard, not only the past two trading days, but since the beginning of the year.

Paired trades can be extremely lucrative with the smart use of options.

The so-called underwriter quiet period for AMC Entertainment Holdings has come to an end, so now the analysts in the underwriting syndicate firms can issue coverage on the company. Shares were down in ...

In a new research report, Deutsche Bank analysts initiate coverage on some of the top software stocks and also upgrade other top names from Hold to Buy.

Apple got a mid-day pop on Wednesday due to nothing more than comments from activist investor and billionaire Carl Icahn. His position is now believed to top $3 billion, and he called Apple a "no ...

The magnitude of the debacle at Best Buy during December was not something Wall Street expected. Most firms had fallen in love with the story, and Best Buy was seen as the proverbial Phoenix rising from ...

As we have looked through research from the firms that we cover on Wall Street, we find that almost everybody expects a pullback. None that we have seen could be as large as the one predicted by Piper ...

With a number of high-profile IPOs, franchises are having a moment in the Wall Street spotlight.

After a strong 2013 where the S&P 500 was up almost 30%, you would think that most stocks would be close to being fully priced. That's not what Thomas Lee, the chief equity strategist at J.P. Morgan thinks....

These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Thursday, January 16.

Barron’s suggested this week that the recovery in the housing market could spell trouble for restaurant stocks going forward. But there seem to be two theories on what could happen. Investors seem to feel ...