Defensive stocks are often the stocks that investors try to use as a safe harbor to wait out the storms. We have covered many of these and even gave our own list…
These are the new combined holdings (alphabetically A-G) from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) for the period ended December 31, 2007: American Express (NYSE: AXP) 151.6 million shares for a value…
The Coca-Cola Company (KO) reported fourth quarter earnings per share of $0.52, an increase of 79 percent versus the prior year on a reported basis, and $0.58 after considering items impacting comparability,…
Douglas A. McIntyre Below are some of the key general calls we are looking at in early pre-market trading: Anglogold (NYSE: AU) downgraded to Neutral from Buy at UBS. Cephalon (NASDAQ: CEPH) downgraded to Underperform…
We are constantly looking for the business angle of current events, and what could be more pressing than the Super Bowl today. More people watch the Super Bowl than watch live coverage…
"Comfort food" is close to recession-proof, at least according to Pepsi (PEP). According to Reuters, Pepsi believes that "its business, based on "comfort foods", to be resilient to a U.S. economic slowdown,…
The big US companies with the weakest prospects have sold off by as much as 50% over the few months. But, because some of them have powerful brands, large customer bases, and…
Goldman Sachs is out noting that investors hunkering down into earnings may want to look at beverages as an attractive sector with reasonable valuations. Goldman Sachs also believes that macro weakness should…
We are updating our list of tier-one Defensive Stocks since so many of these stocks have run up and since lists need continual updating. Our originally updated list of tier one defensive…
2007 was one volatile year and for now it appears that will be the norm for at least the start of 2008. Everyone’s favorite market pundit or least liked pundit is obviously…
Over in the world of baseball where steroid-built great apes hit 60 home runs a season, there is still a place for what is known as "small ball". That approach to the…
Below is some of the top pre-market news affecting individual shares that 247WallSt.com is reviewing: AMERCO (NASDAQ: UHAL) announce a $50 million share buyback plan. Children’s Place Retail Stores (NASDAQ: PLCE) NOV…
There are many other impacting analyst calls today, but these are the top calls that 24/7 Wall St. is focusing on: The Andersons (ANDE) raised to Buy at Banc of America. Autodesk…
The markets haven’t fallen apart after yesterday’s 360 point dive on the DJIA, but we are still trading a tad lower today. Now that Cisco Systems is showing you can’t just automatically…
With the markets down so much today on the financial stock fallout after the Citi downgrade/concern and with oil stocks listing lower after the Exxon miss, we wanted to show a brief…
