The debate over whether investors prefer stock buybacks or dividends will continue in the years ahead. Companies use both tools for returning capital to their shareholders.
With the U.S. dollar the strongest in years, Merrill Lynch strategist Savita Subramanian and her team think there is opportunity in buying high-quality multinationals.
It now might be easier to argue that Berkshire Hathaway is becoming more like a public private equity shop, rather than being a conglomerate.
Thursday's top analyst upgrades and downgrades include Garmin, IMAX, Micron Technology, Kimberly-Clark and Procter & Gamble.
24/7 Wall St. takes a look at six more key dividend hikes that investors should be expecting within the next 30 to 45 days.
thinkstockMarch 16, 2015: Markets opened higher on Monday as the dollar traded slightly weaker against the euro early. That did not help crude oil prices, hough, which tumbled to a new 52-week…
Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, loves dividend stocks, even if Berkshire Hathaway itself does not pay a dividend and likely will not do so for another generation.
thinkstockMarch 6, 2015: Markets opened lower on Friday after news that the unemployment rate fell to 5.5% in February and the economy added 295,000 non-farm jobs after a downward revision of 18,000…
thinkstockMarch 4, 2015: Markets opened lower on Wednesday following a somewhat disappointing ADP employment report for February even though January’s estimate was revised sharply up. Crude oil inventories grew by 10 million…
With stocks having hit all-time highs and with the bull market now six years old, investors have to consider carefully which stocks and sectors they want to invest in.
We combined two Merrill Lunch ideas that secular contrarians should be long, or own now, and screened the firm's stocks universe for large-cap dividend yield stocks that are rated Buy.
Historically, industries in the consumer staples arena are the real beneficiaries of a drop in oil prices, especially when the savings rate rises.
courtesy of WhiteHouse.govBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has made its quarterly filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission for its holdings as of December 31, 2014. For all practical purposes, this filing is…
thinkstockJanuary 27, 2015: Markets opened lower on Tuesday after pre-market earnings reports from several of the DJIA blue chips came in a little short, and we’ll give some details on that in…
Before the markets opened Tuesday morning, Procter & Gamble reported its fiscal second-quarter financial results.
Chris Lange 
