October 12, 2016: Markets opened mixed Wednesday in a continuation of Tuesday’s downbeat finish. The energy, healthcare, and basic materials sectors were the day’s leading losers, while real estate, utilities, and telecom…
Despite the up and down nature of earnings from Twitter, it is an interesting franchise that under better corporate leadership could prosper.
With the 10-year Treasury yielding much less than 2% and the prospects for big capital gains going forward far lower than over the past 10 years, switching to top dividend stocks now…
It would be the final blow to Yahoo if in the massive breach one of the email accounts hacked belonged to CEO Marissa Mayer.
Douglas A. McIntyre As Samsung tries to recover from the Galaxy Note 7 battery fire recall, some consumers may want to consider the Galaxy Note 5. Released in mid-2015, it remains a highly advanced smartphone.
While the polls have the race pretty tight, one thing is for sure: a victory by Donald Trump would favor a far different group of stocks than a victory by Hillary Clinton.
September 19, 2016: Markets opened higher Monday and while most sectors traded in the green the gains didn’t add up to much. Fresh speculation about an OPEC production freeze pushed oil prices…
Some profit-taking selling has knocked these four companies back into very reasonable valuation levels.
Apple already has forecast a third consecutive quarter of declining revenue and whether sales of the new iPhones can turn that around remains to be seen.
September 9, 2016: Markets opened lower again Friday following lukewarm trading sessions in Asia, another nuclear test in North Korea, and so-so economic data from Europe. Energy stocks rose on lower than…
There may be other blue chips, but none has the iron-clad balance sheets, wide moats for most of its businesses and management that largely has been viewed as steady and smart.
September 6, 2016: Markets opened higher Tuesday following the three-day Labor Day holiday, and after a morning dip below the break-even line for both the S&P 500 and DJIA, equities traded above…
Verizon has struck the latest blow in the dividend duopoly of high dividends in the major telecom stocks. It has increased its quarterly dividend to more than 57 cents per common share.
August 26, 2016: Markets opened higher Thursday and went higher following Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen’s speech in Jackson Hole. The Fed chief intimated that sentiment for another increase in the policy rate…
A new study from Rootmetrics has ranked the top four U.S. wireless carriers for the first half of 2016 on a variety of metrics.
