There are several ways in which companies can return money to shareholders, but the two most common methods of returning cash to shareholders are dividends and stock buybacks. Dividends are rarely controversial…
West Texas Intermediate Crude is bleeding today now that the IEA has made a coordinated release of 60 million barrels of oil. Half of that will come from the United States and…
Investors need to consider one thing about investing in retail. This is quite likely to be the next bastion of dividend growth for investors seeking income to buffer market volatility in the…
Jon OggWe have another week that has passed by and there were many stand-out research calls that took place throughout the last week. Our top analyst calls, some of which are dubious…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE: AMD) Raised to Outperform at FBR.…
Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) is doing something that many investors might have considered more than difficult. Its shares are actually rallying after an earnings report. If you just read the…
Short sellers must not agree with the conventional wisdom that high gas prices and unemployment will keep Americans out of stores and malls this summer. These investors decreased their negative bets against…
Every state posted GDP growth between 2000 and 2010, according to the latest U.S Department of Commerce data, which was released earlier this week. The growth rates, however, were very wide. Michigan’s…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated Buy with $415 target at Argus;…
Did you heed the call “Sell in May and Go Away!” this year? It turns out that as of mid-day we now have nearly half of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average…
We have already seen earnings come in as a disappointment from Lowe’s Companies today. We still have quite a few retailers on deck to report earnings this week. We compiled a more…
Investors love dividends, particularly from companies which are raising dividends or which have a history of raising dividends. There is a new diversified sample dividend portfolio for investors called the “8-Pack of…
The Dow Jones industrial average, the best-known barometer of the U.S. stock market, has been on a tear recently, gaining more than 16% over the past year. Investors have not yet recovered…
It may seem like corporate earnings season is just about over, but next week we have a flurry of reports with some tech and a monster amount of retail companies. We have…
The unemployment rate rose so fast in 2008 and 2009 that in some months the US lost more than 500,000 jobs. That trend has only begun to reverse itself this year, and…
