ThinkstockInvestors love dividends, particularly safe and dependable dividends that rise through time. The S&P 500 Index currently has the most companies paying dividends in nearly two decades. The year 2013 has seen a continued…
ThinkstockAny time investors look for companies growing sales the most, one area that almost always stands out is the up and coming biotech stocks. After all, sales can grow from close to nothing into…
Jim Henderson, via Wikimedia CommonsSears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) reported third-quarter 2013 results before markets opened on Thursday. The company posted an adjusted earnings per share loss of $2.88 on revenues of $8.27 billion.…
courtesy of Google Inc.Tech giant Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has announced the launch of the Google Wallet Card, a prepaid debit card. The new card will allow users to make purchases in stores or…
courtesy of Apple Inc.When Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) released the iPhone 5S, the time buyers had to wait to get new phones lasted as long as two weeks. The figure has dropped as low…
courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) has had to deal with more than engine fires. Other luxury manufacturers like Porsche have begun to attack the alternative energy car market on their own.…
ThinkstockTribune Co. announced 700 layoffs. The company owns a number of television stations, but most of the jobs lost come from the firm’s newspaper division. The jobs eliminated show how newspaper companies have started…
ThinkstockAmericans do not age well, at least according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In its “Health at a Glance 2013,” OECD experts report: life expectancy in the United States stood at 78.7…
courtesy Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc.Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) reported fourth fiscal quarter and full-year 2013 earnings after markets closed Thursday. For the quarter, the maker of the Keurig single-cup brewing…
November 20, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher Wednesday morning and held onto modest gains until the mid-afternoon release of the FOMC minutes. Suggestions that the Fed may begin tapering before it sees an…
ThinkstockThe latest Minutes from the Federal Reserve’s October 29 to 30 FOMC meeting are indicating that tapering the $85 billion per month of bond buying could start in the coming months. This sounds significant in…
ThinkstockEvery one of the 3D printing stocks we follow got pounded on Tuesday and apparently the beatings will continue until morale improves. Wednesday trading has the stocks down in the early afternoon by just…
Wikimedia CommonsJamie Dimon of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) may still be a great banking CEO, but he is far from the bulletproof CEO he was considered to be back before his…
Courtesy of Tesla MotorsEarlier this year, The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) was forced to ground its 787 Dreamliners due to spontaneous fires in the lithium-ion batteries the company used in the aircraft’s emergency locator…
ThinkstockTry living without water for a few days. It is something you cannot cut back on or push out for very long. Investors have caught on that water is a must-own holding as well.…