Investors love dividends. This one investing component has comprised a major portion of total returns through time. The trend in recent years has been for companies to pay dividends and keep raising…
Jon OggSo far, 2013 has been a great year for equity investors. With both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index trading up in the double-digits, we wanted to…
U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning even following a larger than expected rise in new claims for jobless benefits in the U.S. The final revision to fourth quarter 2012 GDP…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following a stack of poor reports on the Italian economy. New industrial orders were down, industrial sales were down, and retail sales were down. To…
Jon OggThese are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Barclays PLC (NYSE: BCS) raised to Outperform at Bernstein. BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE:…
courtesy GameStop Corp.Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is turning a gun on the retail video game model, and this will crush GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME), if the preliminary news about specs on the…
Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe stock market is down Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.26%, the Nasdaq down 0.35% and the S&P 500 down 0.22%. Today’s winners include a…
Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A./N.V. (NYSE: BUD) cut to Hold at Soc-Gen. Buffalo Wild Wings Inc.…
ThinkstockIt is the time of year again, when America’s largest retailers release those critical holiday season figures and disclose their annual sales. A review of these numbers tells us a great deal…
ThinkstockToys“R”Us may no longer be a public company, but that does not mean that it is not an important barometer for toy companies. The company was acquired in a deal in 2005…
courtesy GameStop Corp.GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) is showing that some hot video games did not exactly translate into the great video game recovery for which investors have been waiting (and waiting and…
Jon C. Ogg courtesy GameStop Corp.Just as the holiday retail shopping season gets down to its last two weeks, GameStop Corp. (NYSE: GME) said today that it would begin selling two models of the Kindle…
ThinkstockIn the most recent trading days, we have seen more companies turn to new or expanded share buyback plans. If the dividend tax rates rise too much, corporations may ditch the endless…
courtesy GameStop Corp.Is it possible that the video game sector is finally making a comeback? Are all the silly little virtual farm animal games from the likes of Zynga, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA)…
U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning but quickly turned south and bounced around lower all day. In Europe, the eurozone notched its second consecutive quarter of negative GDP growth, tossing the…
