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Bank of America Merrill Lynch added AutoZone, Inc. (NYSE: AZO) to its U.S. 1 list (of top investment ideas) on Thursday. According to the report, analysts Denise Chai and Curtis Nagle give the stock a Buy rating and $865.00 price target “in an environment where S&P 500 earnings growth...

Groupon Inc (NASDAQ: GRPN) is scheduled to announce its second-quarter financial results before the market opens on Friday. In a report issued Monday, Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts Paul Bieber and Justin Post previewed the results, which they expect to be in-line with their estimates and...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) broke out results for its Web Services unit Thursday, with results that pleased investors. Web Services revenue grew 49 percent in the recent period to $1.57 billion, while its operating income fell 13 percent (excluding foreign exchange effects). Total Amazon...

The current bull market turned six years old on Monday, and it seems appropriate to take a look back and see how far stocks have come since the S&P 500 hit a Financial Crisis low of 676.53 on March 9, 2009. The S&P itself has more than tripled in value, up about 207 percent in those six...

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BOAML) upgraded shares of Google Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) from Neutral to Buy, and raised its price target from $580 to $650 on Monday. According to the firm, Google shares are becoming more attractive on the back of: "Early signs of renewed...

Metaldyne Performance Group Inc (NYSE: MPG), producer of automobile powertrain and safety components, opened for trading last Friday. Metaldyne was formed in August 2014 by private equity firm, American Securities. Metaldyne uses proprietary metal forming technology to manufacture components...

Bank of America analysts believe 2015 may be the time for investors to start dipping their toes into oil again. In a recent report, analysts presented the case for cautiously venturing into oil-exposed energy stocks that have heavily underperformed in 2014 due to the collapse in oil prices....

A recent report by Bank of America looked at investment themes for a changing world. One of the areas that the report identified as a source of change is the increasing modern life expectancy. In fact, the number of living people in the world over the age of 60 is expected to double from 841...

Dan Nathan, co-founder and editor of Risk Reversal, recently stopped by Benzinga's #PreMarket Prep. Nathan's career spans 17 years as a proprietary equity and options trader at hedge funds (SAC, Exis and Cheyne Capital) and within the equity derivatives group of Merrill Lynch. Nathan...

Earnings season continues next week with several pharmaceutical and biotech companies set to report. The rising tension between Russia and the West will also play a role in market fluctuations as investors prepare for tougher sanctions to be enacted. Key Earnings Reports Next week investors...

Winthrop H. Smith Jr., the former Chairman of Merrill Lynch International, believes that investor skepticism has not subsided in the years following the 2008 financial crisis. "Today I think we have a climate where the credibility of Wall Street has been damaged by the excesses of 2007 and 2008,"...