Everything about Australia’s Foster’s Lager seems big — starting with the brew’s over-sized can. Today the beer’s maker, Foster’s Group Ltd., agreed to be acquired by the world’s second largest brewer, SABMiller…
Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) has made good on a dividend hike we have been expecting. The domestic tobacco giant has now increased its regular dividend by almost 8% to $0.41 per…
Jon C. Ogg What on earth are investors supposed to do when T-Bonds offer almost zero income? Interest rates are now so low that the price-risk in long-term Treasury bonds is too great. Ben Bernanke…
Most investors love when the market bounces big after a huge sell-off. The 600+ point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday actually came to almost 2,000 lost DJIA points…
2.25 PM Comments from the Fed killed the rally, and the DJIA dropped into negative territory. The central bank will keep interest rates low through mid-2013, but it did not indicate any…
The S&P downgrade of the United States may have the investment community in a fuss, but many investors saw this coming long before. To say that investors will not see a knee-jerk…
When you see a ten-day sell-off and a capstone panic day with what is a 300-point sell-off in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the first reaction is that no one wants anything…
Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning. Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Cut to Sell at S&P Equity Research. Altria…
Next week will mark the true ‘opening the floodgates’ for earnings season. We have given some brief earnings previews and added in color for the DJIA components set to report earnings in…
If Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO), Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI), Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD), and Molson Coors Brewing Company (NYSE: TAP) should keep an eye on efforts to legalize marijuana. The…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 225 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than…
Updated throughout the day. Premium content service Hulu is for sale (NYT, WSJ, AP) Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will launch a faster iPhone this September (Bloomberg) Altria (NYSE: MO) and Philip Morris (NYSE:…
The FDA is about to give some serious warning labels on cigarette labels. Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO), Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI), Lorillard, Inc. (NYSE: LO) and Vector Group Ltd. (NYSE:…
We may have just witnessed an oversold bounce in the stock market, or we may be in for more days of recovery. The markets are flirting with six weeks of negative performance…
Stocks are still correcting as economic data keeps coming in weaker and weaker. Now the media keeps routinely talking up what we called a supporting call for QE3. Please, no QE3! Still,…
