It was just on Monday that we released the 24/7 Wall St. “12 Big Dividend Hikes Coming Before The End of 2012” and we already have one of the twelve coming true. …
Most investors have discovered that earning less than 1% per year in short-term Treasuries or even less than 2% out in the 10-year Treasury is no fun. Longer-dated Treasury bonds also are proving…
The press recently had a field day with a report from the “Institute for Policy Studies” about executive pay. The report said the of the 100-highest paid U.S. CEOs in 2011, “26…
Twenty-six of the top 100 highest-paid U.S. CEOs in 2011 made more than their companies paid in federal income taxes, according to a study released recently by the Institute for Policy Studies. This figure is up from…
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT), CVS Caremark Corp. (NYSE: CVS), 7-Eleven Inc., Sunoco Inc. (NYSE: SUN) and other well-known retailers are expected to announce that they have banded together to develop a…
BGR (Boy Genius Report) posted an exclusive that says that AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) has begun a period of strenuous training for its retail employees as its clears out inventory of current…
Americans should avoid a number of high-end cars, if their primary interest is passenger safety. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety reported that “only 3 of 11 midsize luxury and near-luxury cars evaluated earn…
Leap Wireless International (NASDAQ: LEAP) is out with its second quarter results, and the end result showed a wider loss than expected and the customer metrics look soft as well. Apparently having no-contract…
wikicommons / SkimstaMany American companies have been lauded for their rapid rise to greatness, a process that sometimes takes less than a decade. These firms become leaders in their industries, are renowned…
We have recently warned about a dividend bubble that is inflating in the high dividend yield stocks like the telecom giants. Both AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ)…
Over the last three months the best performing wireless carrier stock has been — wait for it — Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S), up nearly 62%. The second best performing stock in…
Sprint-Nextel (NYSE: S) lost $1.4 billion in the second quarter, as it continued to remain viable in competition with AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon Wireless. The company reported a net loss of $1.4…
The three major US stock indexes opened roughly flat this morning as Spanish 10-year bond yields rose to 7.5% and Moody’s cut Germany’s outlook to ‘negative’ after the markets closed last night…
AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) reported this morning that its second-quarter profit came in at $3.9 billion, or $0.66 per share. That is up from from $3.59 billion, or $0.60 per share, in…
U.S. stock futures are down slightly, indicating that the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index is likely to remain near a one-week low. European sovereign-debt worries continue to be of concern, ameliorated somewhat…
