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…
According to The Times HSH Nordbank of Germany will sue UBS (NYSE: UBS) to recover up to 500 million pound which it lost on subprime instruments sold to it by the Swiss…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Societe Generale filed its financial information and confirmed its huge trading loss. Reuters writes that the sale of 3Com (COMS) has come apart because a piece of the company…
These are the new combined holdings (alphabetically A-G) from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) for the period ended December 31, 2007: American Express (NYSE: AXP) 151.6 million shares for a value…
AnheuserBusch (NYSE: BUD) and InBev, a rival beer company, are in talks about a merger, according to Trends magazine. Douglas A. McIntyre
Douglas A. McIntyre We are updating our list of tier-one Defensive Stocks since so many of these stocks have run up and since lists need continual updating. Our originally updated list of tier one defensive…
Over in the world of baseball where steroid-built great apes hit 60 home runs a season, there is still a place for what is known as "small ball". That approach to the…
The markets haven’t fallen apart after yesterday’s 360 point dive on the DJIA, but we are still trading a tad lower today. Now that Cisco Systems is showing you can’t just automatically…
With the markets down so much today on the financial stock fallout after the Citi downgrade/concern and with oil stocks listing lower after the Exxon miss, we wanted to show a brief…
If you follow beverage stocks or follow alcohol and beer stocks very much, you certainly saw the huge gains today seen in Canadian ADR’s of Molson Coors (NYSE:TAP). Shares rose some 10%…
We are frequently asked about how certain basket picks perform compared to the overall market. It has been years since anyone has claimed their stocks should gain regardless of the market because…
If you ever heard the old saying "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it!" it sure seems like we are there. It also makes you wonder if it is…
Last Friday, we wrote about defensive stock havens for a crummy stock market. We also warned that in true market selling extremes there is no such thing as a true haven, and…
It’s yet another crummy day in the markets with roughly a 280 DJIA point drop before the closing bell went off. Bear Stearns added the most fuel at the end of the…
Stock Tickers: KO, MRK, PG, CAG, BUD, HRL, CL, MO, MCD, KFT, NVO, WTR If you are a long-term bull and aren’t feeling panic after seeing a huge down day (of over…