It has taken about three months for the Dow to get back to positive. The push was in fact made by the Dogs of the Dow, but it was stalled for some…
March 22, 2016: Markets opened lower on again on Tuesday following the deadly bombings in Brussels that have reportedly killed 34 people and injured nearly 200 more. All 10 sectors opened lower…
What companies like American Express show us is not to give up so easily on big established companies, barring any scandals, and as long as they’re not bank stocks, which can fail…
ThinkstockMarch 3, 2016: Markets opened lower on Thursday as the dollar sank against the euro after a weak report on factory orders and a slowdown in the ISM services index. The healthcare…
Berkshire Hathaway does not pay a dividend, but Warren Buffett has outlined the manner in which he will repurchase his own company's stock on the open market.
American Express has posted a share price drop of more than 20%, which makes it the worst-performing Dow Jones Industrial Average stock so far in 2016.
The rest of the market may have its share of problems, but on the surface everything would seem to be fine with Berkshire Hathaway.
Shareholders put their trust in the chief executive officer to direct the company to better fortunes. At some point, however, a CEO can do more harm than good. The telltale signs the…
The top 50 hedge funds sold $4.6 billion in stock during the fourth quarter, according to FactSet.
Warren Buffett has now released the official equity holdings of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) as of December 31, 2016. That makes this the official Buffett stocks for 2016, but we would…
February 12, 2016: Markets opened higher on Friday as both the financial and energy sectors attracted investors again after being sold off earlier in the week. Financial stocks added more than 3.5%…
Rubber band theory is one of the most consistently reliable trading strategies on Wall Street. Quite simply, it says that regression to the mean is your safest bet.
While the Dow has dropped 7% this year, one of its 30 components, American Express, has done substantially worse.
Douglas A. McIntyre February 1, 2016: Markets opened lower on Monday following on the worst manufacturing data to come out of China in more than three years. From a weak start equities perked up in…
American Express (NYSE: AXP) cannot get it right. Retailers reject it. Consumers do not view it as the Rolls Royce which once sat atop the credit card universe. American Express share fallen…
Douglas A. McIntyre 
