Hot Stocks

Hot stocks are not about hype. They emerge when powerful themes, policy shifts, and capital flows converge. InvestorPlace analysts track fast-moving market narratives, especially in technology, AI, and infrastructure, to identify stocks drawing outsized attention and explain what is really driving those moves.

Urban Outfitters Earnings Show Strength Despite Weak Sector

Urban Outfitters earnings have investors excited today, but Janney Montgomery Scott analyst Adrienne Tennant called that weeks ago.

Amazon Marches Into the Video Game Console War

Amazon might join Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo and a few others in the next-generation video game console war. And despite the competition, it's a good move.

JCPenney Earnings: Still Terrible, But We’re Used to It

JCPenney earnings were downright ugly, as revenue missed expectations and the company posted a loss nearly twice as wide as analysts were expecting.

To Disney Infinity and Beyond for NFC Technology

Disney Infinity connects real-life toys to an open-ended video game in another step toward connecting physical objects to the online world.

Will General Motors Say ‘So Long!’ to South Korea?

South Korea's rising labor costs and won are becoming a double whammy for General Motors.

Bond Yields Rocket Toward 3%: Monday’s IP Market Recap

Investors pulled out of bonds and stocks en masse, pushing 10-year Treasury bond yields to 2.9% and sending the broader index to a fourth straight day of losses.

Gold Slips on Profit-Taking

Gold and silver sank slightly on Monday as investors took profits after last week's precious metal rally.

3 Soaring Pet Stocks to Adopt

Two of these pet stocks have gained over 50% in the last year, while the third has been climbing more recently. And all three of them look promising going forward.

Google Winding Down 20 Percent Time

Google continues its march away from its innovative origins by winding down the 20 percent time program that let employees work on pet projects.

Yahoo Stock: All Style, Little Substance

Yahoo stock might be soaring and Marissa Mayer might be turning heads, but the fundamental story is much different and much more dire.

High Shrimp Prices Could Make Darden Restaurants Seasick

Shrimp prices just keep on soaring ... and that's bad news for already-struggling Darden Restaurants and other seafood-centric dining spots.

What’s Warren Buffett Buying?

We take a look at what moves Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway made during the second quarter.

Gold Rises, Posts Weekly Gain

Gold futures climbed modestly on Friday as Middle East violence and Federal Reserve tapering fears drove equities markets lower.

Daniel Loeb: Disney’s In, Virgin Media’s Out

What were the big moves for Daniel Loeb's Third Point LLC? New positions in DIS and KO while dropping out of VMED and CIM.

Green Mountain Coffee to Join Nasdaq 100

On August 22, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters will join both the NASDAQ-100 Index, NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index and the NASDAQ-100 Ex-Tech Sector Index.

Cisco, Walmart Torch the Street: Thursday’s IP Market Recap

Blue chips Cisco and Walmart each delivered some crappy news and had their stocks sheared as a result, helping to drag down the broader indices.

Gold Jumps on Safe Haven Appeal

Escalating violence in Egypt allowed gold to shrug off lower than expected first time U.S. unemployment claims and post a solid gain for the day.

Soros Ups the Apple Ante, Trashes Gold

Soros Fund Management's recent 13F filing shows that George Soros took some big positions in tech, but waved bye-bye to the yellow metal.

Buffett Bets on Suncor, Dish Network

Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway buys Dish Network and Suncor, while lightening up on Moody's, Mondelez and Kraft.