U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following a report on U.S. unemployment that was better than analysts expected (more coverage here). There were literally hundreds of U.S. companies reporting earnings between…
Short sellers have increased their bets against some of the defensive high-yield dividend stocks, while paring down in others. As you will see, the dividend and stock performance matter here. We evaluated the…
U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning as investors and traders tried to make sense of more than 150 earnings reports that were released between last night’s closing bell and this morning’s…
Short sellers may be getting smarter about all the inflows of capital heading into dividend stocks. The short interest fell in many of the names, but investors should understand that this short interest had…
Short sellers have kept their attack up against the high-dividend stocks, perhaps indicating that many investors believe that the bull market may turn back toward growth rather than paying a higher premium…
Short sellers have continued to by and large increase their short-sale bets against the quality high-yield dividend stocks. The price gains must lead short sellers to believe that the yields are getting…
Jon OggShort sellers have increased their bets by and large against our universe of go-to quality dividend stocks. We tracked the short interest changes from the February 15 settlement date, versus the…
Jon OggThese are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. Aeropostale Inc. (NYSE: ARO) named Bear of the Day as expensive even after…
ThinkstockAs Fat Tuesday quickly turns into Ash Wednesday, Lent will take place from Wednesday, February 13 to Saturday, March 30 in 2013. It may not seem like much on the surface, but…
ThinkstockOnce again investors are faced with the fact that the politicians in Washington D.C. cannot get anything done. With the president’s State of the Union address tonight, the focus turns again to…
Short sellers have had their challenges due to rising share prices since the start of 2013. They have gone on to make some serious changes in the high dividend stocks now that…
courtesy of BlackBerryWhen Research In Motion unveiled its long-delayed BlackBerry 10, it also announced it was changing its name to BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY). CEO Thorsten Heins argued that the new name reflects…
courtesy of philip morris internationalPhilip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) is out with its fourth-quarter earnings, and the international tobacco giant is still growing. Earnings per share increased by almost 16% to…
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch has made some key changes to its various US research portfolios over the last 30 days. In a research change summary the bulge-bracket firm summarized its changes for…
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following a mixed bag of data on the U.S. economy and mixed earnings results out this morning. In Europe, Germany’s retail sales fell sharply this…
