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The 100 Hardest Working Brands In The World
There are a number of ways to rank brand values. One of the most important is the level at which a brand contributes to the market value of a public company. 24/7…
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/Consumer Defensive
Colgate-Palmolive Company
$87.47
▼ $0.26 (−0.30%) today
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4:37pm ET
Investing
52-Week High Club
American Eagle Outfiters Inc. (NYSE: AEO) hit a yearly high of $18.08 after the clothing vendor announced that it had raised its 3Q09 EPS estimate to $0.24-$0.26 from $0.22-$0.25. Anheuser-Busch InBev…
8:12am ET
Investing
Top Analyst Upgrades (AXL, BRCD, CL, ELX, GRMN, PGR, Q, SLB, TTWO)
These are this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, initiations, and positive research calls seen early from Wall Street: American Axle (NYSE: AXL) Raised to Overweight at Barclays. Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) Started as Outperform…
2:31pm ET
Investing
Defensive Stocks Offering No Haven (WMT, PEP, KO, TAP, KFT, CAG, CPB, HRL, MCD, MO, VGR, RAI, PG, CL, MRK, JNJ, NVO)
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…
4:04am ET
Cars and Drivers
The Death Of Brands: Passing Up Advil For Aspirin
Who needs Advil when it is more expensive than aspirin and probably does no better at reducing pain? Who needs Starbucks (SBUX) when Maxwell House has just as much caffeine? A new…
2:15pm ET
Investing
Imminent Change to DJIA 30 (GM, F, CSCO, ORCL, AAPL, GOOG, CL, HON, PEP, TGT, AMZN, MDT, ABT, GS, BRK-A)
Word is out that the Dow Jones Indexes team is set to release the name of the replacement for General Motors (NYSE: GM) in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. We have heard…
11:05am ET
Investing
DJIA Component Replacement Candidates for GM (GM, F, CSCO, ORCL, GOOG, AAPL, CL, HON, PEP, TGT, MDT, ABT, GS, BRK-A)
The bets are on that General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM) is done as far as the current stock is concerned. While it seems that the equity holders of today will keep 1%…
5:31am ET
Investing
Defensive Stocks Refuse To Participate In Rally (PEP, KO, TAP, KFT, CAG, CPB, HRL, MCD, MO, PG, CL, MRK, JNJ)
Investors flock to defensive stocks in times of trouble and and when they worry, assuming they look to stay in the market when they are worried. But if the trend here continues,…
5:15am ET
Companies and Brands
Food Brands Lose Ground As The Consumer Seeks Value
If consumer spending on inexpensive items is supposed to be a foreshadowing of an improving economy, better days are still a long way off. Unilever, one of the largest consumer goods companies…
3:00am ET
Investing
Media Digest 5/1/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, lenders will object to the Chrysler Chapter 11 filing. Reuters reports that Switzerland is asking US a court to halt a case against UBS (UBS). Reuters reports that SMFG will buy…
2:15pm ET
Investing
Defensive Stocks Hammered Too (PEP, KO, TAP, KFT, CPB, HRL, MCD, MO, RAI, PG, CL, MRK, JNJ)
It’s another rough trading day in the stock market. It is bad enough that the DJIA is down over 3% to decade lows and under 7,000… But even almost all of the…
5:08am ET
Economy
Ten Large American Companies That Won’t Cut Jobs
Layoffs at big companies are so common now that it is novel when a day goes by without Microsoft (MSFT), Caterpillar (CAT), or Macy’s (MC) letting thousands of people go. There are…
1:35pm ET
Economy
The Ten Companies That Will Lead The US Out Of The Recession
There are an extremely small number of companies which are likely to do relatively well during the recession, either because they are the market share leaders in their industries by a wide…
4:01am ET
Media
Media Digest 1/30/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
According to Reuters, Republican may keep fighting Obama on the stimulus package. Reuters reports that Roche dropped its bid on Genentech (DNA) to $42 billion. Reuters writes that the Administration will release…
5:39pm ET
Companies and Brands
Can P&G Earnings Trump Colgate & Chattem? (PG, CL, CHTT)
Traders and investors alike look for defensive stocks with certainty of earnings in hard times like these. Tomorrow we will get earnings from Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG), and the consumer…