David Sterman has worked as an investment analyst for nearly two decades. He started his Wall Street career in equity research at Smith Barney, culminating in a position as Senior Analyst covering European banks. While at Smith Barney, he learned of all the tricks used by Wall Street to steer the best advice to their top clients and their own trading desk.
David has also served as Managing Editor at TheStreet.com and Director of Research at Individual Investor. In addition, David worked as Director of Research for Jesup & Lamont Securities. David has made numerous media appearances over the years, primarily on CNBC and Bloomberg TV, and has a master's degree in management from Georgia Tech.
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Among the biggest losers in Tuesday’s early trading are Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) and Orbitz (NYSE: OWW). The bad news keeps coming for DVD-by-mail pioneer Netflix. Rival Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) has lined up an agreement with Epix, a consortium of major movie studios, to again access to many of the… Read More
Among the biggest winners in Tuesday’s early trading are Heckmann (NYSE: HEK), and Valeant Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: VRX). Heckmann looks like a perfectly-built company for the shale gas revolution. The company trucks in fresh water (and then helps handle the used water) that is used in the “fracking” process. As… Read More
Do you want to make a lot of money investing in commodities? Then oil and gas producers are a great place to start. But odds are, you’re probably not going to do it with global behemoths like Chevron (NYSE: CVX) and Exxon-Mobil (NYSE: XOM).#-ad_banner-# Don’t get me… Read More
It’s not every day a quality dividend stock yielding almost 9% goes on sale at almost 20% off. But that’s the deal that readers of High-Yield International were alerted to three weeks ago. And it’s not too late… Read More
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan may be most remembered for the phrase “irrational exuberance.” In December 2006, he asked if stock prices were too high, saying, “But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly… Read More
Today, I want to cover a popular market ETF that is a strong buy based on a momentum indicator that most traders ignore and a… Read More
Europe is in the news again, although it seems like the continent’s financial turmoil is always in the news. European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi was quoted in The Wall Street Journal as saying, “It… Read More
Summer is just about over, and that means the lull in the markets we’ve seen over the past several weeks also is about to cease. Once traders return to work after the Labor Day holiday, there’s sure to be more action, more… Read More
It all started back in 2008. Oil and gas prices were soaring. Credit was getting tight, people were losing jobs and the Great Recession was in full force. As these trends took shape, auto sales plummeted. These historical changes forced consumers to… Read More
Jerome Peribere had a short honeymoon with investors — one day to be exact. When news broke on Wednesday, Aug. 29, that he would become president of Sealed Air (NYSE: SEE), investors cheered him with a quick 12% gain in the company’s stock. A day later, the stock was already… Read More
