Dividends are still rising and equity and income investors should expect more of the same for 2012. The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) joined in on the dividend hike brigade with another dividend…
Banks were able to shine for years and years over credit unions. This new age of “too big to fail” after bailouts and then banks gouging customers for charges may be creating…
In a threat to a national settlement related to the foreclosure “robo-signing” investigation, the attorney general of Massachusetts has filed suit against Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC), J.P. Morgan Chase &…
Standard & Poor’s is at it again… more downgrades and this time in the ailing banking sector. While we focused solely on the U.S.-based banks here, the downgrade was handed aimed at…
The super-low bank P/E ratios may be showing something of a question. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) and others top banks may have a…
The new proposed stress tests are just one more thorn in the side for the banking sector, but analysts from Dick Bove to Meredith Whitney, as well as value and bargain investors and…
China’s factory activity reaches a 32-month low. (Reuters) Merck (NYSE: MRK) pays $950 million to settle Vioxx charges brought by the government. (Reuters) FCC head wants more examination of the AT&T (NYSE:…
Fitch is warning that U.S. banks could be adversely affected unless the Eurozone debt crisis “is resolved in a timely and orderly manner.” The mention is a warning that the credit outlook…
The economic choppiness is coming to a head with the age of dividend hikes. The pressure is going to remain for companies to continue returning capital to shareholders while also looking for…
Paulson & Co. Inc. is another hedge fund group that investors use for Whale Watching, although this last quarter was not exactly kind to Mr. Paulson’s billions… The current 13F report shows…
Last Friday at the meeting of the G20 in Cannes, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) revealed a list of 29 global systemically important financial institutions (known as the G-Sifis). These institutions are…
Each morning 24/7 Wall St. issues a list of some of the key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. We review these and other calls from the week…
Stocks opened higher this morning and the gains held up pretty well all day. The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee report contained no big surprises, with interest rates continuing to be held…
MasterCard Inc. (NYSE: MA) absolutely crushed estimates this morning, reporting third-quarter EPS of of $5.63 on revenue of $1.82 billion. Consensus estimates were aiming for EPS of $4.81 on $1.7 billion in…
These are some of Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK) added to Strong Buy List at Zacks. Bank…
