Gimmicks are always a big way to draw in new customers and to entice existing customers to buy more. They often cost a company very little and can bring in large rewards. …
Reuters: BP plc (NYSE: BP) has made final plans to plug its well. Reuters: The dollar index fell to a three-month low due to a slowing economy. Reuters: Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE:…
The great majority of the largest companies in America are easily identified by name by most consumers. That is because their names match one or more of their most important brands. McDonald’s…
The problems in the Gulf have caused BP’s shares to drop from a 52-week high of $62 to the current price of $32. Two years ago, they were almost $70. BP’s stock…
This morning we ran a list of stocks which actually closed up 2% or more yesterday during the sell-off waves. We looked through the list of about 20 stocks, and of those…
There are three things investors traditionally want after making huge gains when they still want to hold stocks. They want stocks that have dividends and may want ‘value stocks.’ But the largest…
The Fed has started the end of the near-zero rate cycle cycle, sort of. But yesterday’s sudden discount rate hike to 0.75% from 0.50% is almost certainly a prelude to the Fed…
Over what we saw during the recession, 2009 was the year that dividends were cut down to effect cash conservation to get through the recession. In fact, the dividend cuts may have…
Two trillion cigarettes are sold in China each year. Sixty-percent of adult men in the People’s Republic are smokers. The AP reports that China will ban smoking indoors in seven of the nation’s…
Douglas A. McIntyre It was early in October before earnings season kicked off into full thrust when we first reviewed many large or actively traded stocks which had not participated in the stock market rally…
Wall St. likes financial statements that give it deep insights into a company’s operations, especially its liabilities. It likes boards that make sure shareholders get as complete a picture as possible of…
We have already run the 5 of the 30 DJIA components that reported earnings this morning. But we still have 7 more of the 30 DJIA components reporting during the rest of…
Here we are going into yet another earnings season. We saw Monday how the market has rallied significantly from the March lows and the major indexes are even up in positive territory…
These are this Friday’s top day trader alert stocks. We have more color and more detail on price and volume analysis linked through to each at VSInvestor.com: AllState Corp. (NYSE: ALL) is…
Wasn’t it just last week that we were up eight days in a row on the DJIA? And now we have a sell-the-news reaction to the recent growth numbers. Maybe it is…
