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Our brains are wired to like new things, even when they aren’t necessarily better than the old. In the world of investing, nothing is newer or can generate more excitement than an initial public offering—commonly referred to as an IPO. There’s a lot of buzz surrounding IPOs and...

Benzinga has featured looks at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included a top automaker and a leading airline. Bearish calls included a troubled utility and a video game giant. When the big U.S. banks kicked off the fourth-quarter earnings season last week, their...

Benzinga has featured looks at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls the leading EV maker and a couple of social media giants. Bearish calls included a top automaker and a telecom giant. In another wild week in the stock markets, not only did the major U.S. indexes end...

Benzinga has featured looks at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included a semiconductor, financial and construction equipment giants. Bearish calls included a couple of internet stocks and a popular cannabis play. While a bomb plot captured headlines last week,...

Benzinga has featured looks at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included an old-school conglomerate and a social media pair. Bearish calls included an electric car maker and a pharmaceutical firm. Another major hurricane slammed into the United States this past...

Benzinga has featured looks at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included a streaming video giant and a struggling social media player. Bearish calls included the iPhone maker and a leading pharmaceutical company. The Nasdaq ended May nearly 6 percent...

Benzinga has featured looks at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included a top semiconductor maker and a Detroit automaker. Bearish calls featured a struggling conglomerate and a social media player in hot water. The bull run is now more than nine years...

Benzinga has featured looks at many investor Bullish calls included sector leaders in retail, technology and transportation. Bearish calls featured a struggling social media company and a top financial name.  While volatility may have settled somewhat in the past week or so, the...

This weekend's Barron's offers a look at seven companies with rising earnings and falling prices. Other featured articles offer the prospects for a "good" big bank and a pair of social media giants. Also, whether the end is in sight for the long bull market and how to...

This weekend's Barron's cover story offers reasons to bet on a premier global investment bank. Other featured articles offer the prospects for a tool maker with a questionable strategy and a solar panel maker that may have had its day in the sun. Also, what to expect from tech IPOs...

Benzinga has featured a look at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls featured a big oil pick and some blockchain picks. Bearish calls included struggling retail, apparel and social media stocks. The new year is off to a strong start with markets again hitting...

Benzinga has featured a look at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls featured giants in the consumer electronics and entertainment arenas. Bearish calls included discount retailers and a social media leaders. The new year is off to a strong start in the equity...

Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) reported weak third-quarter earnings results Tuesday, revealing challenges with monetization potential and user growth. The Analyst Morgan Stanley's Brian Nowak. The Rating Morgan Stanley downgraded Snap Inc from Equal-weight to Underweight, decreasing its price target...

Snap Inc (NYSE: SNAP) has a problem. Investors who got burned buying the stock after its volcanic IPO might argue it has a number of problems, given that it’s down roughly 50 percent since hitting post-IPO highs of almost $30. Putting that aside, the issue that seems to plague Snap at every...