Courtesy Ford Motor Co.This year has been a tough one for value investors. The rage has been growth stocks, especially the momentum names, and the more conservative value names have been left…
ThinkstockBlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) has announced that its strategic review is over. Thorsten Heins is also out as CEO. John S. Chen will be executive chair of BlackBerry’s board of directors and…
We like to keep a close eye on the focus lists and conviction lists of the major firms that we cover on Wall Street. Typically stocks that are added and removed from…
ThinkstockBankers are still not very well thought of after the financial meltdown, even if they might not have ben that well thought of before the meltdown. Still, at some point the public…
Investors have become all too familiar with the increasingly difficult task of scouring the investment universe for income-generating securities. Bond investors have been forced farther and farther out the yield curve or…
ThinkstockThe U.S. Federal Reserve is supposedly independent of the government, even if running the Fed is a Presidential appointment and requires backing of Congress. It also pays profits back to the government.…
ThinkstockA deal between Democrats and Republicans has supposedly been reached in Washington, D.C., to end the government shutdown and to end the debt ceiling expiration. While many people expect that this will…
Wikimedia CommonsThe general investing public will spend much of its energy waiting for earnings from famous companies such as Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) and J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP). These are…
ThinkstockWells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) reported third-quarter results before markets opened Friday morning. The bank posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) that totaled $0.99 on revenue of $20.5 billion. In the…
Paul Ausick White House Photo by Pete SouzaBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) and Warren Buffett generally hold close to 40 different stock positions in the Berkshire Hathaway portfolio of U.S.-listed shares. Anyone who has…
Jon OggStocks have traded down from recent highs in light of a federal government shutdown and ahead of a debt ceiling expiration. Now investors and traders have to wonder which stocks to…
ThinkstockWe already have warned that investors and traders alike are now unlikely to see five key economic reports this week due to the government shutdown. Industry economic reports still will be released.…
The stock and bond markets in the United States and internationally had to trade through a very unusual first Friday or the month because there was no Labor Department report on Unemployment…
ThinkstockAfter the market implosion of 2007 and 2008, the major U.S. banks were all reeling from the same disease. The housing bust and the slew of horrible mortgage backed securities deals that…
ThinkstockMaybe it just feels like it (or looks like it), but the upcoming layoff of 4,500 people at BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY) had some company this past week. A number of other…
