In yet another week that saw the markets continue to march higher, some of the top Wall Street firms that we cover were continuing to lower the boom with Sell ratings on some of the high-profile names. Most equity strategists have admitted that we have turned the corner and are in a secular bull market for the first time in almost 15 years.
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The biotech market has been on fire this year, and there is every indication that things will go on changing. With huge binary events right around the corner, and many of the top companies with clinical trials that have shown tremendous results, some of the gains for investors can be staggering.
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Most Wall Street firms run model portfolios for their institutional and retail clients. Like all portfolios, they make weighting changes based on a variety of specifics that can include everything from valuation to loss or gains in technical and relative strength. Usually when a portfolio manager eliminates a position, either the thesis on the stock has totally broken down or the stock has hit the established price target.
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The days of big-box retail dominating the market place are over. Brick-and-mortar stores that want to compete have to have everything online that compliments their traditional store presence, whether it is free-standing or in a mall. E-commerce sales rose to 10.5%
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Following the market crash and ensuing recession in 2008, somebody was going to be named the bad guy. It wasn’t going to be the politicians who insisted that everybody had a right to own a house. It was going to be the big, bad, greedy banks and bankers. It was going to be the bad bond people who pooled thousands of bad mortgages and sold them as investment grade securities. It was going to be Wall Street.
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As the stock market races to new highs, all investors seem to ask the same question. With this much positive momentum, how do I stay involved? Can I commit new capital and not get scorched if a wicked sell-off comes around? One way is to seek out strong areas that look to benefit from untapped growth. To do that, investors can track the influential Architecture Building Index, or ADI. The research team at UBS is doing just that, and there are some positive signs.
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The 2017 RSA Security Conference is in full swing in San Francisco. One thing is for sure, like 2013, the increase in hype around security is apparently very evident, and end demand also appears much more sustainable. It is easy to understand why. On almost a daily basis we hear or read about a security breach. From major corporations to the largest governments around the world, nobody seems immune to hackers bent on gaining restricted entrance and access to classified data.
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24/7 Wall St. has continued to see the endless themes and predictions made by Wall Street firms for 2017. Over the past month, we have highlighted many of the top picks and pans for this year. One of the interesting aspects of compiling and reporting on the stocks to buy and ideas for this year is that they tend to run reasonably parallel across the board. For instance, while most firms feel that we could experience a sizable correction at some point, none are predicting a crash on Wall Street.
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Want to get a head start on what angel and venture capitalists are looking for in 2017? Here are some sectors we hear whispers about from investors:
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