ThinkstockWe noted last week in our report on the first music industry profit in more than a decade that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) was believed to be negotiating with music industry players to license…
ThinkstockPersonal income tanked in the month of January while spending maintained a narrow 0.2% gain. Today’s report from the Commerce Department showed that income was down b a whopping 3.6% as higher tax rates…
SmartBalanceBoulder Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ: BDBD) was the top winner of our daily “Market Winners and Losers” earlier today as the stock was up 16%. That was at 10:48. Now shortly after 1:00 PM EST we…
ThinkstockThe recording industry has taken a beating for more than a decade as it struggled to come up with a way to maintain its substantial profits in the face of Internet sharing programs like…
ThinkstockAbercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) is far from doomed, although it is one of the biggest losers on Friday. It is also farther and farther away from its old days of being the…
We keep talking about big great American companies which are hiking their dividends. Now we have Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) out with news that the consumer products giant’s board of directors has approved a…
courtesy of The Coca-Cola CompanyThe dividend hike train continues to march forward and onward. Now we have an investor taste test happening between Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) and PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP), as the…
ThinkstockThe world of beer stocks is not that large any longer, and there really are not enough players to evaluate as a real public investable sector. Boston Beer Co. Inc. (NYSE: SAM) has grown…
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is out with earnings. The world’s largest retailer spooked the markets recently with an internal memo about sales starting out very soft, but here is…
Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE: GNRC) already has pulled back from its post-storm highs. After the company won more business for its generators, the company’s largest shareholder group has decided to take some money off the…
Ed Brown, via Wikimedia CommonsThe Labor Department has released the Producer Price Index (PPI), also known as wholesale inflation. The report is for the month of January, and it came in at +0.2%, as…
ThinkstockSodaStream International Ltd. (NASDAQ: SODA) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2012 results before markets opened this morning. The home beverage carbonation system maker reported quarterly adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) $0.45 on revenues of…
Wikimedia Commons, Public DomainPepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 20122 results before markets opened this morning. For the quarter, the food and beverage company posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of…
ThinkstockWhole Foods Market Inc. (NASDAQ: WFM) may be a great company at selling great products at a premium, and it may be able to have far higher margins that traditional grocery stores. Now it appears…
courtesy of Groupon Inc.Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) is a troubled company under questionable leadership where IPO investors have been crushed. Long gone are the days of a $6 billion or $7 billion buyout offer…