August 22, 2016: Markets opened lower again Monday as investors remain cautious ahead of the Fed’s Jackson Hole conference beginning Thursday. Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen is scheduled to speak on Friday and…
The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Wednesday morning include Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, MGIC Investment, TransCanada and Verizon Communications.
July 19, 2016: Markets opened mixed on Tuesday with the blue chips opening lower before bouncing higher. Unlike the S&P 500 Index and the Nasdaq Composite, which never traded higher at any…
As one of the largest health care companies on the market, Johnson & Johnson helps set a direction for the industry. Strength within its pharmaceutical segment helped push this company to new…
Chris Lange Johnson & Johnson is set to release its second-quarter earnings report before the markets open on Tuesday, a period in which it agreed to acquire a privately held company focused on hair…
Chris Lange One-third of the 30 Dow stocks are reporting quarterly results between July 18 and 22. The main question is whether these earnings can push the Dow to new highs.
With the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting new all-time highs this past week, we have to wonder what we have in store going forward as earnings reporting ramps up.
Looking at what was a brief but massive fallout within broad markets, we are realizing that the Brexit provided a very attractive entry point into a fair number of industries. The Dow…
America’s largest companies tend to be located in major metropolitan areas. New York City alone is home to the headquarters of more than 70 of U.S.’s 1,000 largest public companies, the most…
Standard & Poor's has now shown that the first quarter of 2016 saw a 12% rise in buyback spending to a whopping $161.4 billion.
Top executives, CEOs especially, are often measured by the business decisions they make and how their company is performing. Often just as important, however, is the company’s culture, which executives also help…
The ASCO annual meeting is absolutely making waves in the pharmaceutical industry. As a result, analysts are giving their two cents on companies making presentations at the conference.
June 2, 2016: Markets opened lower Thursday while investors waited to hear results from the OPEC meeting in Vienna. Alas, no change to the current policy sending oil prices lower for a…
Johnson & Johnson has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vogue, a privately held hair products company, for $3.3 billion in cash.
Chris Lange Here are Warren Buffett's favorite consumer products stocks as seen in "Major Changes in Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings."
