Short sellers appear to be increasing their bets against some of the key dividend stocks we track each and every day, judging by the August 15 settlement date for the short interest…
Will Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) raise the price of the iPhone 5 above the level it planned before its victory over Samsung? It would not be unusual for a company to use…
It was just on Monday that we released the 24/7 Wall St. “12 Big Dividend Hikes Coming Before The End of 2012” and we already have one of the twelve coming true. …
Most investors have discovered that earning less than 1% per year in short-term Treasuries or even less than 2% out in the 10-year Treasury is no fun. Longer-dated Treasury bonds also are proving…
The press recently had a field day with a report from the “Institute for Policy Studies” about executive pay. The report said the of the 100-highest paid U.S. CEOs in 2011, “26…
Twenty-six of the top 100 highest-paid U.S. CEOs in 2011 made more than their companies paid in federal income taxes, according to a study released recently by the Institute for Policy Studies. This figure is up from…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), CVS Caremark Corp. (NYSE: CVS), 7-Eleven Inc., Sunoco Inc. (NYSE: SUN) and other well-known retailers are expected to announce that they have banded together to develop a…
BGR (Boy Genius Report) posted an exclusive that says that AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) has begun a period of strenuous training for its retail employees as its clears out inventory of current…
Americans should avoid a number of high-end cars, if their primary interest is passenger safety. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reported that “only 3 of 11 midsize luxury and near-luxury cars evaluated earn…
Leap Wireless International (NASDAQ: LEAP) is out with its second quarter results, and the end result showed a wider loss than expected and the customer metrics look soft as well. Apparently having no-contract…
wikicommons / SkimstaMany American companies have been lauded for their rapid rise to greatness, a process that sometimes takes less than a decade. These firms become leaders in their industries, are renowned…
We have recently warned about a dividend bubble that is inflating in the high dividend yield stocks like the telecom giants. Both AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ)…
Over the last three months the best performing wireless carrier stock has been — wait for it — Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S), up nearly 62%. The second best performing stock in…
Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) lost $1.4 billion in the second quarter, as it continued to remain viable in competition with AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless. The company reported a net loss of $1.4…
The three major US stock indexes opened roughly flat this morning as Spanish 10-year bond yields rose to 7.5% and Moody’s cut Germany’s outlook to ‘negative’ after the markets closed last night…
