courtesy of StarbucksStarbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) has reported its fiscal fourth quarter earnings. Expectations were high because the stock was within one percent of trading at an all-time high yet again. Howard Schultz and…
ThinkstockBankers are still not very well thought of after the financial meltdown, even if they might not have ben that well thought of before the meltdown. Still, at some point the public needs to…
courtesy of NvidiaTake-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) was trading up after earnings in the after-hours trading session. Shares have since petered out with a drop of almost 6% to $16.88 in late afternoon…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsStocks rise and fall for many reasons, many of which seem very counterintuitive. So what are investors supposed to take out of Wednesday’s stock market sell-off? Hopefully, not much, but…
ThinkstockDigital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: DLR) is supposed to be the landlord of the cloud. That should imply not only endless growth but dividend growth as well. Unfortunately, the growth of the cloud is…
ThinkstockThere is good news if you receive Social Security. You are getting a 1.5% pay raise. There is bad news if you are a taxpayer earnings much more than $100,000. Your income adjustment for…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Labor Department may be late this month with the unemployment and nonfarm payrolls report, but the ADP payrolls data is giving a weaker-than-expected look at the jobs market. ADP has reported that…
Jon OggInvestors are having to deal with seeing stocks hit new highs almost daily now. With a temporary deal in Washington, D.C., and with earnings coming on strong, investors are caught trying to decide…
Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP) may have the greatest peer-review website out there, but its earnings report is leaving a lot of investors holding the bag after a serious surge. Yelp’s quarterly loss widened out…
LinkedIn Corp. (NYSE: LNKD) has managed to beat earnings expectations at every single quarterly earnings report. Now the social network for professionals has reported sales growth of 56% to $393 million. Earnings came in…
The National Rifle Association is perhaps best known for gun-ownership rights and lobbying hard against any efforts to limit those rights. How many individuals consider the NRA a great publishing house? Apparently, the answer…
Courtesy BlackBerryBlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY) is a merger story that just refuses to go away. Fairfax is the interested party at $9.00 per share, and there have been published rumors and written reports discussing…
Jon OggInternational Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has just lived up to its promise of endless share buybacks with a greatly expanded share buyback plan. The goal is to keep buying up the stock…
ThinkstockApple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has not gotten the warm reception from Wall Street and investors that the fan boys may have hoped for after its quarterly earnings report. The long and short of the…
ThinkstockCredit Suisse has shown a very mixed report on its coverage of utilities on Tuesday. We have seen one very positive call on Northeast Utilities (NYSE: NU), followed by caution in Exelon Corp. (NYSE: EXC),…
ThinkstockThe latest economic reading is the Conference Board’s report on monthly consumer confidence for October. The title of the report was “Consumer Confidence Decreases Sharply in October,” but this easily could have been “A Total…
ThinkstockBank of America Merrill Lynch has refreshed a huge coverage list of master limited partnerships, or MLPs. The firm has shown that forty-eight MLPs in its coverage universe have declared their third-quarter cash distributions,…
ThinkstockInflation is just not appearing in the broad economic numbers. A fresh report from the U.S. Department of Labor actually is not that fresh, but it is the most recent report on inflation because…
Jon OggWe are in the thick of earnings season, a deal was made in D.C. and stocks are challenging new all-time highs almost daily. So how do investors know which stocks to buy and…
Courtesy of Twitter Inc.Most Wall Street analysts wait for a company’s IPO to actually price and then start trading before they issue Buy, Sell, or Hold recommendations (or other recommendations). This is not the…