Babcock & Wilcox (BW) stock is sharply lower this morning after slashing its full-year profit forecast.

The top insurgent funds discussed their latest insurgency campaigns at a conference of hedge fund managers, including efforts at Xilinx, Babcock & Wilcox, TeamHealth and Yahoo!

Here's an in-depth look at five big stocks that are telling important technical stories.

The European stabilization shines a new light on the auto stocks, says Stephanie Link, co-portfolio manager of Action Alerts Plus.

Brush Engineered Materials (NYSE:BW) has been upgraded by TheStreet Ratings from a hold to buy.

TheStreet Ratings released rating changes on 12 U.S. common stocks for February 25, 2011. Seven stocks were upgraded and five stocks were downgraded by our stock model.

Brush Engineered Materials (NYSE:BW) hit a new 52-week high Thursday as it changed hands at $40.63 compared with its previous 52-week high of $40.11. Brush Engineered is currently trading at $40.15 with 116,061 shares changing hands as of 10:05 a.m..

Shares of Brush Engineered Materials (NYSE:BW) were gapping up Thursday morning with an open price 10.3% higher than Wednesday's closing price. The stock closed at $34.46 yesterday and opened today's trading at $38.02.

Brush Engineered Materials CEO Discusses Q3 2010 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

U.S. retirees may get a big benefit with the next Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2023.

Core retail sales improved firmly in July, but the headline figure was essentially unchanged as gas prices tumbled from their June record highs.

E-commerce giant Amazon is the subject of a major investigation linked to its Prime service. It's not sitting idly by.