24/7 Wall St. has done an analysis of the largest companies in the United States based on the size of their portfolios of major consumer brands. Many of these brands are worth…
We have a very busy week ahead for equity investors, even outside of earnings season. This coming week’s key events, what we call The Unusual Suspects, is non-earnings related and includes the…
There is an ETF for just about everything, and now there is one geared solely around the consumption of food. Global X Funds has launched yet another niche ETF with the lauch…
Time now for our daily look at commodity prices and news. Today’s news is dominated by two reports from the US Department of Agriculture. One provides the USDA’s latest figures on grain…
Earnings season is supposed to be over, but we have a packed week full of earnings due from off-calendar quarterly earnings reports. We have compiled Thomson Reuters estimates and added color where…
The company which received the most negative press today is Borders Group which has not only declared Chapter 11 but is in the process of closing 200 stores. Google (NASDAQ GOOG) ranks…
There is a long-standing debate over the effect and impact of share buyback plans. What is not up for debate is that many companies have given big updates or announced new buyback…
There have always been questions about whether stock buybacks are an effective return of cash to shareholders. The theory is a simple one: reducing the number of shares outstanding boosts the price…
The bulls ran for cover today as commodities and financial stocks are pulling the market lower. After two huge ‘sell the news’ earnings reactions were followed by even more ‘sell the news’…
Active traders and day traders have many stocks to focus on this morning. We are watching key moves in shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), ConAgra Foods (NYSE: CAG), Genoptix, Inc. (NASDAQ:…
Dividends and income from your belly… We have decided to start taking some high-yield reviews of key sectors this week now that earnings season is past the half-way mark. Dividends in food…
There are three things investors traditionally want after making huge gains when they still want to hold stocks. They want stocks that have dividends and may want ‘value stocks.’ But the largest…
Wasn’t it just last week that we were up eight days in a row on the DJIA? And now we have a sell-the-news reaction to the recent growth numbers. Maybe it is…
Thursday is shaping up to be a miniature one-day version earnings season this week. This is likely the last of the major earnings reports we’ll see for another three or four weeks…
These are the top ten early bird analyst upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street early this Tuesday morning with more than two hours until the market opens. BHP Billiton (BHP) Raised to…
