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.

Gold Dives to Two-Year Low on China

By Christopher Freeburn, InvestorPlace Writer
Gold tumbled in Monday trading, hitting a two-year low, after a report showed weaker economic growth in China.

Ebay-Paypal: A One-in-a-Million Deal

By Will Ashworth, InvestorPlace Contributor
Ebay's $1.5 billion acquisition of PayPal has continued paying dividends long after the deal's been done. Here's why, in dealmaking, that success is the exception, not the norm.

Netflix’s Big Streaming Numbers: Encouraging, But Not Enough

By Adam Benjamin, InvestorPlace Assistant Editor
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says users streamed 4 billion hours of content in the past three months, but how excited should we be about that figure?

Cloud Infrastructure Service Stocks: Who Makes the Grade?

By Susan J. Aluise, Aviation, Auto & Transportation Writer
Cloud computing -- especially the Infrastructure-as-a-Service segment -- is a huge deal. Find out which of these four names has the most promising prospects.

Adobe’s Primetime Makes It a Promising Play

By Brad Moon, InvestorPlace Contributor
Adobe's tackling streaming video with its new Primetime platform and investors are confident it will dominate the segment as it has many others.

Gold Plunges on U.S. Economic Worries

By Christopher Freeburn, InvestorPlace Writer
Gold suffered its biggest pullback in a year as rising concern about the U.S. economy's recovery shook traders Friday.

Background Checks No Match for High-Caliber Gun Stocks

By Jim Woods, Editor-in-Chief, Successful Investing, Intelligence Report, Bullseye Stock Trader
Gun-makers Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger simply shrugged off a Senate vote to begin debating the main piece of federal gun legislation.

Acadia Booms, But Has a Long Way to Go

By James Brumley, InvestorPlace Feature Writer
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals rocketed to 64% gains yesterday on good news regarding its Parkinson's disease treatment ... but let's not put the cart before the horse.

VIDEO: 6 Stocks in 60 Seconds

By Alyssa Oursler, InvestorPlace Contributor
Check out this quick video recap of six stocks that made headlines -- good or bad -- this week.

Tech Can’t Stop the Rally — Thursday’s IP Market Recap

By Marc Bastow, InvestorPlace Assistant Editor
Technology stocks reversed course as a report showed dramatic slippage in PC shipments, but the Dow and S&P still marched on to new records.

Gold Recovers as Investors Look for Bargains

By Christopher Freeburn, InvestorPlace Writer
Gold rose modestly in Thursday trading, recovering from Wednesday's nearly 2% drop in futures prices as investors took advantage of the lower price.

Hospital Stocks Might Be in a Holding Pattern

By Will Ashworth, InvestorPlace Contributor
Things were going so well for hospital stocks before Wednesday, when they hit a wall. The question going forward: What's over that wall?

Faulty Airbags Lead to Massive Japanese Auto Recall

By Christopher Freeburn, InvestorPlace Writer
Defective airbag systems made by Takata Corp. from 2000 to 2002 have forced Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Mazda to recall 3.4 million cars around the world.

Stocks Keep Pushing the Ceiling — Wednesday’s IP Market Recap

By Marc Bastow, InvestorPlace Assistant Editor
An accidental early leak of the Fed's most recent minutes suggested continued monetary easing through at least mid-year, helping prop up the bulls Wednesday.

Gold Plunges on Goldman Sachs Forecast

By Christopher Freeburn, InvestorPlace Writer
A reduced 2013 forecast for gold prices from Goldman Sachs sent the metal plummeting in Wednesday trading, as the U.S. dollar rose and equities soared.

Personal Care Companies: 2 to Buy, 1 to Sell

By Will Ashworth, InvestorPlace Contributor
Avon and the broader personal care industry have been on a tear so far in 2013, but that doesn't mean all are a buy. Take a look at two winners and one dud.

Don’t Get Married to the Bird Flu Stock Bump

By James Brumley, InvestorPlace Feature Writer
H7N9 should blow over like previous flus, and when it does, those companies that got bumped or boosted amid the crisis should revert back to their prior trends.

Are the PC Partners Up to Something?

By Brad Moon, InvestorPlace Contributor
Microsoft stock has understandably perked up since filing anticompetition allegations against Google in the EU. But is that driving Intel, too?

6 Things to Look For in a Real Estate Investment Trust

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Real estate investment trusts represent a unique opportunity for dividend growth investors, and here are 5 things I look for in analyzing a REIT investment
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