ThinkstockWhen Barron’s ran “Gold Is Regaining Its Glow” over the weekend, they probably made the weekend over every concerned and disheartened gold bug in the world. After all, how can central banks print up…
ThinkstockThe dispute over the fees that CBS Corp. (NYSE: CBS) charges Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) will come to a conclusion of some sort this Wednesday. One outcome floated by the cable operator…
Jon OggThe casual dining sector, particularly the fast food segment, may have run its major growth course. After McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) posted a disappointing company earnings report we can only yet again consider…
ThinkstockToday’s report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) on existing home sales in June may mean that there is trouble brewing for home improvement centers like The Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD) and…
ThinkstockInvestors are starting to be less concerned that high-yield dividend stocks could get crushed by a rising interest rate environment. Chairman Bernanke and the Federal Reserve have been getting more vocal that quantitative easing…
ThinkstockSunday’s New York Times story on the shenanigans played by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) at its aluminum warehouse in Detroit is nothing especially new. What is new is that the Times has…
Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) may be the subject of a special dividend very soon. The problem is that this high-yield dividend actually may turn out to be bad for shareholders, as it will come…
ThinkstockThe National Association of Realtors (NAR) reports that the seasonally adjusted annual rate of existing home sales in June fell 1.2% to 5.08 million from a downwardly revised total of 5.14 million in May.…
ThinkstockThe U.K.’s royal family is wealthy, but likely not wealthy enough to pass up sponsorships as the heir to the thrown is born to Kate, the wife to Prince William. Or, perhaps the family…
ThinkstockGannett Co. Inc. (NYSE: GCI) reported second-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The media company posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.58 on revenues of $1.3 billion. In the same…
ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has released its Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) for the month of June. Economic activity is showing a slight improvement on the national scale, but it is…
ThinkstockFor investors with the view that we have seen the worst of the correction in commodity stocks for 2013, or will soon shortly, the research team at Oppenheimer believes increased exposure to the commodity-sensitive…
courtesy of McDonald'sMcDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) reported second-quarter 2013 results before markets opened this morning. The fast-food restaurant chain posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.38 on revenues of $7.08 billion. In the…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from select Wall Street research calls on Monday, July 22, 2013. They include Crocs, General Electric, Juniper Networks and Nokia.
ThinkstockFor much of the past year and through the first quarter of 2013, the refinery sector was on fire. The top stocks in the sector were some of the top-performing stocks overall. The stocks…