Next week we may have the FOMC meeting, but analysts and economists are looking for no change in rates with the language growing more hawkish on inflation and more cautious on the…
For reasons that are impossible to explain, much of the mythology of the late 20th Century American CEO was placed Atlas-like on the shoulders of John Francis Welch, GE’s head man from…
The two largest online social networks are Facebook, which is a private company, and MySpace, which is owned by News Corp (NWS). MySpace has always been the larger property. Facebook was a…
It used to be that DEFENSIVE STOCKS were the way to go during periods of uncertainty and during times of market sell-offs. But now that isn’t even working out. After we looked…
The J. M. Smucker Company (NYSE: SJM) and The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) Folgers unit have confirmed yesterday’s reports that the two companies are going to merge. The Folgers coffee…
After today’s close, we saw which stocks Warren Buffett held in Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A, BRK.B) as of March 31, 2008. Buffett’s filing cut off date is longer as he has…
For years, GE (GE) has been considered the single best corporate proxy for the US economy. For years it led all American companies in market cap. It businesses range from entertainment to…
These are some of the top analyst calls we are focusing on this morning: ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) Cut to Neutral from Overweight at HSBC. Caribou Coffee (NASDAQ: CBOU) Cut to Neutral from…
Goldman Sachs has made some changes in coverage to its consumer products universe. The bulge bracket brokerage firm favors Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP) and Colgate-Polmolive Co. (NYSE: CL) and gave both…
On tonight’s MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer noted that he wanted to look for the new banks. Even thougfh these aren’t really banks, they are the defensive stocks that are still…
Investors usually try to find stocks where they run for cover when the stock market is in turmoil. This Monday is no exception after seeing the Bear Stearns implosion "takeunder" and the…
Defensive stocks are often the stocks that investors try to use as a safe harbor to wait out the storms. We have covered many of these and even gave our own list…
As The Wall Street Journal points out, the DJIA is up 6% in a month. That is because, if results from financial firms in the index are backed out, the rest of…
These are the new combined holdings (alphabetically H-P) from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) for the period ended December 31, 2007: Home Depot (NYSE: HD) 4.181 million shares for $112.6 million.…
A lot of smaller companies will continue to report earnings over the next several weeks, but almost all of the really big companies which are on calendar fiscals have put out their…
