News about <![CDATA[US7415034039]]> News about en-us <![CDATA[Market Wrap for Friday, January 25: Dow and S&P Climb Towards Old Highs]]> The U.S. stock market continued to climb amid low volatility conditions on Friday. Investors remain focused on quarterly earnings reports with a wide number of stocks making large moves.

The overall atmosphere remains bullish with the S&P 500 already rising nearly 5.4 percent in 2013. Both the Dow and S&P

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<![CDATA[No Apple And That's Good For This Tech ETF]]> It is only mild hyperbole to say that nearly everyone with a television or Internet access, at least those in the U.S., know by now that shares of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) are being taken to the woodshed today. The iPad maker, once a $700+ stock, is down 11.7

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<![CDATA[Facebook Graph Non-Starter For Stock, ETFs]]> Following Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) much ballyhooed new product announcement, shares of the social media giant are off about three percent on volume that is nearly double the daily average and hovering near the lows of the day.

That glum performance is arguably the result of Facebook's newly unveiled "Graph

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<![CDATA[Sang Lucci January 11th Market Close Summary]]> The broad indexes were stuck in a range under yesterday's closing price for most of the day until a late day surge back brought us back to flat on the S&P. Stocks ended up mixed with some sectors staying positive while others gave up some ground, however, we saw no

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<![CDATA[Priceline Group Announces Booking.com CEO To Take On Additional Responsibilities]]> The Priceline Group (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced today that Darren Huston, CEO of Booking.com, has been promoted to take on additional responsibility in the management of the Priceline Group's international brands, Booking.com, Agoda and Rentalcars.com. From his position leading Booking.com, his new responsibilities will include oversight of inter-brand

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<![CDATA[Amazon is Dragging These ETFs Higher]]> Shares of e-commerce giant Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) are trading lower by about 1.5 percent in late trading Tuesday, backing off a bit from the all-time set on Monday.

Trading at an astounding 154.29 times forward earnings and nearly 123 times its price to earnings growth, according to

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<![CDATA[Liberty Interactive Buys Controlling Stake in TripAdvisor]]> Shares of TripAdvisor (NASDAQ: TRIP) rallied strongly higher on Tuesday after it was announced that Liberty Interactive (NASDAQ: LINTA) had purchased a controlling stake in the company. Shares were up about nine percent early Tuesday, trading near $41.90.

Liberty Interactive acquired 4.8 million shares of TripAdvisor at

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<![CDATA[Hedge Fund Profile: Tiger Global Management]]> In early 2012, Bloomberg profiled one of the newest, and youngest, members of the hedge fund gilded set. At just 37 years-of-age, Tiger Global Management's Chase Coleman III finds himself among an elite set of billionaire Wall Street money-managers. Even in this rarefied company, his pedigree and track record

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<![CDATA[ETFs For Cyber Monday]]> Its relevance in question, one thing that is not debatable about Cyber Monday is rising sales. Shoppers are expected to spend $1.5 billion today as they visit various e-commerce web sites, a 20 percent increase from last year's levels, according to research firm comScore.

Cyber Monday is one more opportunity

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<![CDATA[No November Rain For These ETFs]]> Even with a multi-day bounce the SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) is still off more than a third of a percent this month. That glum performance indicates that, to this point, investors have ignored seasonal trends for stocks while opting to focus instead on the result of U.S.

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<![CDATA[UPDATE: JG Capital Initiates Priceline.com at Overweight; Exposed to Demand for Bargain Deals]]> JG Capital initiated coverage on Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN) with an Overweight rating and a $780 price target.

JG Capital commented, "Priceline.com, in our view, is the best on-line travel site for bargain hunters. By taking suppliers' excess inventory and marking it down, Priceline.com is able to offer

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<![CDATA[Salesforce.com, Priceline.com and Baidu Receive Cautious Mad Money/Jim Cramer Mention -CNBC]]>