Media reports questioning whether the United States will keep its “Triple-A Rating” in the future are frequent. The fear of endless budget deficit spending and quantitative easing have only added fuel to…
Companies locked in a struggle to remain viable and maintain their profits and sales sometimes begin to run out of customers. This happened to GM (NYSE: GM), which had a 50% share…
Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) results will be helped by holiday spending (Reuters) Ebay’s (NYSE: EBAY) turnaround helped increase earnings (Reuters) Nintendo said the negative reports about its 3D products were out of proportion…
These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) Cut to Hold at Jefferies. Apple…
There are several ways to rank America’s most widely followed public companies. They could be ranked by annual sales, brand value, market capitalization, number of customers, or profits. Another approach is to…
S&P 500 WEEK: BOTTOM 10 (07 JAN-13 JAN) Ticker Weekly Price Change (%) Close Price 13Jan11 Close Price 07Jan11 Market Cap($Mil) SUPERVALU INC. SVU -13.4 7.50 8.66 1591.3 Merck & Co Inc.…
These are some of this Friday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. (NYSE: AB) Cut to Neutral and $26 target at…
The heads of several major investment banks attempted to sell their services of an AIG (NYSE: AIG) plan to pay off money it owes taxpayers (Reuters) Forecasts from Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) helped…
Can the Dow Jones Industrial Average rise 12.65% more in 2011 after gaining about 11% in 2010? Our calculations show the the DJIA is likely to hit 13,042.06 in 2011. That’s a…
The Dogs of the Dow is an investment strategy which annually selects the ten highest dividend yields of all thirty Dow Jones Industrial Average components. Because we are going for the timeless…
The longer-end of the curve is is still rising. Earlier we had seen the highest yields since June, and now we are seeing the highest yields since May. The 10-Year Treasury yield…
This year’s recall of certain types of Tylenol and Motrin by Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), which began in January, brought back memories of the 1982 Tylenol recall. It affected as many…
Reuters: EU and the IMF began to work out details of an Ireland bailout. Ireland will finish work on a $20 billion set of budget cuts. Reuters: China has started to work…
Twitter has, by most estimates, 145 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…
Earnings season is in full swing and is peaking this week in the frequency of market moving and sector moving companies reporting quarterly results. There are several DJIA components reporting earnings along…
