Although stocks are likely to get cracked today, they have likely put in a short-term bottom. Since Yesterday, the NASDAQ hit 2900 and pivoted north. It is the fourth time in the last six-months that the leading index found support at the level. Investors need to pay extra-close attention to the proverbial technical buy/sell line [...]

You might start hearing the word volatility with greater frequency. Stocks finished relatively flat yesterday in the wake of a European political shakeup, but Top Equity News believes that’s about to change. The pro-bailout crowd in Greece couldn’t pull a majority together. The newly elected neo-Nazis and Socialists ran on taxing and spending, anything but [...]

Before we get to our weekly ahead analysis, Top Equity News read a very interesting observation from Goldman Sachs on Zerohedge.com (great site -just don’t pay much attention to some of the tinfoil hat crowd in the comments section). According to Goldman, companies that have beat earnings and sales estimates have outperformed the S&P by [...]

Carmike Cinemas Inc. (CKEC) is expected to report earnings after the market closes on Monday, May 7, 2012, with the conference call to be held at 5 p.m. EST. CKEC is expected to lose $0.03 for its 1st quarter.  Top Equity News expects the entertainment, digital cinema and 3-D motion picture presenter to report earnings that will [...]

Out of nowhere, today’s Institute for Supply Management (ISM) manufacturing report prints an out of the box topside surprise. With yesterday’s regional manufacturing news from Dallas and Chicago, the result was truly unexpected on the good side. The ISM report breaks a string of major economic report disappointments and flies in the face of last [...]