This week was another big week in the world of dividends and the quest to hike and initiate payments to shareholders. Brinker International, Inc. (NYSE: EAT), Raytheon Co. (NYSE: RTN), and ConocoPhillips…
Short sellers pushed into tech, communications, and industrial companies for the period ending March 15, but largely moved out of financial shares. Short interest in Cisco (CSCO) was up 12% to 53.7…
We are getting more and more dividend hikes in 2010. Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) finally declared its first dividend. ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) is hiking its payout. Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY)…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
This week is a jam-packed list full of the Unusual Suspects. We have many earnings reports, enough that we had to screen out some, and we have many issues to watch for…
Next week actually has some key earnings despite the notion that earnings season is over. We have many tied to retail due to the notion that most stocks in the national retail…
PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) is the latest of the big companies to hike their dividend payouts this morning. We have not kept an exact tally, but this is getting close to 70…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
On the tenth anniversary of the tech bubble of 2000, short sellers aggressively dropped their bets against hardware, software and internet companies. Figures are from February 28. The short interest in Apple…
Reuters:  Democrats may miss their goal to vote on healthcare reform. Reuters:  China exports rose 46% in February. Reuters:  China’s Geely raised money to buy Volvo. Reuters:  Strong Chinese trade data made…
March 9, 2009 marked the absolute apex of selling and marked the official ending date of the bear market. At the time, many were expecting stocks to see gains because of grossly…
Al Gore invented the internet, and Cisco (CSCO) will improve it forever. Cisco built up today’s announcement of its latest technology and the result of the news was that the firm’s stock…
Updated throughout the day. Marsh & McClennan (MMC) plans to sell its corporate investigations division Kroll for $1.3 billion. Bidders may include The Carlyle Group, Apax Partners and General Atlantic (FT) DryShips (DRYS)…
These are this Monday morning’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in early Wall Street research notes: ADC Telecommunications Inc. (NASDAQ: ADCT) Raised to Neutral at JPMorgan. Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:…
The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product introductions, management…
