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DJIA 2012: Best Targets Imply DJIA 13,678 (BAC, JPM, VZ, IBM, CVX, MCD, CSCO, XOM, GE, HPQ, INTC, MRK, PFE, PG, WMT, DIA)

As each new year replaces the prior year, 24/7 Wall St. looks at the individual targets on all 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average price targets from Wall Street analysts to ...
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Which Dogs of the Dow Are Best in 2012? (T, VZ, MRK, PFE, GE, DD, JNJ, INTC, PG, MSFT, CVX, JPM, KFT, MCD)

The lineup of the Dogs of the Dow, simply the ten highest dividend yield stocks of the thirty Dow Jones Industrial Average components, appears to be undergoing a bit of ...
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Top Oil & Gas Stock Picks for 2012 (XOM, CVX, COP, RRC, TSO, PXD, APC, CHK, APA, OXY)

Crude oil prices have risen this year, although they have been tapering off in the past couple of months. Pump prices have been driven by the price differential between Brent ...
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Crude Inventory Drops Dramatically (XOM, CVX, SLB, HAL, BHI)

This morning’s weekly petroleum status report from the US Energy Information Administration noted a particularly steep -- and unexpected -- drawdown in oil stocks. Crude inventory fell by 10.6 million ...
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Media Digest (12/15/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT

Olympus may hire its former CEO, Michael Woodford, in the midst of an accounting scandal. (Reuters) Foreign investment in China drops for the first time in 28 months. (Reuters) Holiday ...
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Bain, Other Consultants, Top Best Places To Work List

Bain & Company topped the 2012 version of the "Glassdoor Top 50 Places To Work." McKinsey, MITRE, and Shalom Consulting were all among the top 10. Tech leaders were also ...
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More DJIA Stocks Set to Hike Dividends Very Soon (DIS, DIA, T, VZ, CSCO, KO, IBM, JNJ, JPM, MMM, PFE, MRK, WMT, DVY, VIG, PFM, HDV)

Dividends are still rising and equity and income investors should expect more of the same for 2012. The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) joined in on the dividend hike brigade with ...
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Media Digest (11/21/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

The supercommittee appears unlikely to settle on a deficit agreement. (Reuters) A senior Chinese official says he expects the global recession to last for some time. (Reuters) Spain’s center-right People’s ...
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Upside Potential at Big Oil Companies (XOM, CVX, COP, BP, OXY, MRO, APA, PBR)

As the price differential between WTI and Brent crude oil continues to narrow, with WTI rising and Brent falling, big oil companies should see a gain in their realized prices for crude. ...
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Pipeline Reverses Refiners Fortunes… An Apparent Overreaction (ENB, COP, VLO, MPC, TSO, WNR, CVI, XOM, CVX, BP, EPD, TRP, RDS-A)

The announcement from Enbridge Inc. (NYSE: ENB) that it would acquire the 50% stake in the Seaway pipeline system owned by ConocoPhillips Corp. (NYSE: COP) and reverse the pipeline's flow ...
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All 30 DJIA Dividend Trends into 2012, Stock by Stock (DIA, AA, AXP, T, BAC, BA, CAT, CVX, CSCO, KO, DD, XOM, GE, HD, HPQ, IBM, INTC, JNJ, JPM, KFT, MCD, MMM, MRK, MSFT, PFE, PG, TRV, UTX, VZ, WMT, DIS)

The economic choppiness is coming to a head with the age of dividend hikes. The pressure is going to remain for companies to continue returning capital to shareholders while also ...
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Refiners Thriving on Crude Price Differential (WNR, TSO, VLO, MPC, BP, XOM, CVX, COP, MUR)

Two major oil refiners have reported third-quarter earnings since the market closed last night. Both posted better-than-expected earnings primarily due to sharply higher refining margins. Western Refining Corp. (NYSE: WNR) ...
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24/7 Closing Bell (AMD, FSLR, POT, PAAS, S, OXY, CVX, CSTR, MRK, BIDU, WY, IPG, SWC, ALGN, STMP, CPSI, CODE, DRIV)

Markets opened slightly lower this morning and spent the morning trying to decide on a direction. The Reuters/University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index rose more than expected, but even ...
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Big Oil Rules! Strong Earnings, Takeover Chatter, Dividends, Asset Sales (XOM, OXY, VLO, CVX, BP)

Crude oil prices have jumped more than $3/barrel this morning on the expectation that the European agreement on sovereign debt will put some life back into the global economy. That ...
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New US Push into Geothermal Energy Possible, But Not Likely (CVX, CPN, GOOG, ORA, GE, OGFGF)

The first large-scale geothermal electricity generating plant in the US was developed in the 1960s in northern California. Unocal, now part of Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX), did the initial ...
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