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Frontier Communications (FTR) sunk to the bottom of the S&P 500 today.

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Frontier Communicationsdropped 4.7% to $2.41, while the S&P 500 declined 0.3% to 2,365.45.

Why did Frontier sink today? There’s no news that I’ve been able to find, so let’s blame the Federal Reserve, which is widely expected to hike interest rates tomorrow. Frontier is primarily known for paying a hefty dividend–it now tops 17%–and dividends tend to fall out of favor when interest rates rise. (Utilities, however, dropped just 0.1% today, so maybe that theory is bunk.)

Frontier Communications was the biggest loser last week when it dropped 5.1% after getting cut toNeutral from Buy at BofA Merrill Lynch. It was a string of events that began with Frontier’s earnings on Feb. 28, earnings that led Wells Fargo to opine that the company was still a “show me story.”

hot stocks for today: Liberty Broadband Corporation(LBRDK)


Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Andrew Tonner]

    After focusing on his philanthropic activities for a number of years, Soros resumed a more active role at his eponymous Soros Fund Management in mid-2016.Around the same time,the famed investor loaded up on shares of Liberty Broadband (NASDAQ:LBRDK) (NASDAQ:LBRDA), and the roughly $615 million stake he owns in the company represented his largest holding in his latest quarterly filing — and for good reason.

hot stocks for today: Sohu.com Inc.(SOHU)


Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By R. Chandrasekaran]

    The following stocks are rated Underweight:

    Baidu. Sohu.com Inc (NASDAQ: SOHU).

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  • [By Lisa Levin]

    Sohu.com Inc (NASDAQ: SOHU) shares were also up, gaining 14 percent to $57.89. Sohu.com reported a Q2 loss of $1.85 per share on revenue of $461.168 million.

  • [By Belinda Cao]

    Sohu.com Inc. (SOHU), which sold a stake in its search unit to Tencent Holdings Ltd. (700), advanced 11 percent for the week to $72.06. It retreated 5.9 percent Sept. 20. Tencent, Chinas biggest Internet company by market value, paid $448 million for a 36.5 percent stake in Sohus Sogou unit last week and merge its own search service with Sogou.

hot stocks for today: TTM Technologies, Inc.(TTMI)

Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Evan Niu, CFA]

    Shares of circuit board manufacturer TTM Technologies (NASDAQ:TTMI) have jumped today, up by 10% as of 3 p.m. EST, after the company reported fourth-quarter earnings.

  • [By Anders Bylund]

    How do you pick the top names in this broadly lucrative industry? I’m here to show you my three favorites in the printed circuit board market: Sanmina (NASDAQ:SANM), Benchmark Electronics (NYSE:BHE), and TTM Technologies (NASDAQ:TTMI), each one tailor-made for a different type of investor.

hot stocks for today: Flextronics International Ltd.(FLEX)


Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By Peter Graham]

    A long term performance chart shows Sanmina Corp along with potential peersCelestica Inc (NYSE: CLS), Jabil Circuit, Inc (NYSE: JBL) and Flextronics International Ltd (NASDAQ: FLEX)all having similar looking charts; but SANM has been the outperformer:

  • [By Peter Graham]

    A long term performance chart shows shares of mid cap Jabil Circuit and small capCelestica Inc (NYSE: CLS) heading back into positive territory while shares of mid cap Flextronics International Ltd (NASDAQ: FLEX) and small capSanmina Corp (NASDAQ: SANM) (a previous SmallCap Network Elite Opportunitynewslettersuggestion as the next breakout stock) have been much better performers as they took off early last year:

  • [By Amber Hestla, Michael J. Carr]

    Among its suppliers is Flextronics International (Nasdaq: FLEX), which offers a variety of engineering services and provides supply chain management. Other Flextronics customers include Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), LG and Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) Motorola Mobility. 

  • [By Peter Graham]

    Mid cap electronic manufacturing services (EMS) stock Flextronics International Ltd (NASDAQ: FLEX) reported Q1 2017 earnings after the market closed on Thursday with results missing Wall Street expectations and shares falling in afterhours/premarket trading. Net sales grew 2% to $6.0 billion and GAAP net income was approximately $125 millionversus net income of $106 million. The CEO commented:

hot stocks for today: Umicore S.A. (UMICF)

Advisors’ Opinion:

  • [By SEEKINGALPHA.COM]

    The other major cobalt miners (note their focus is mostly on copper and nickel or other commodities) include Eurasian Resources Group (private), Umicore SA (OTCPK:UMICF), Lundin Mining (TSX:LUN) (OTCPK:LUNMF), MMC Norilsk Nickel (OTCPK:NILSY) (LSX:MNOD), Vale S.A. (NYSE:VALE), BHP (NYSE:BHP), Jinchuan Group International Resources Co Ltd (HK:2362).

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