Verizon Communications could have a better 2016 than it did in 2015. If you include the dividend yield in a total return calculation, analysts on Wall Street were looking for a more…
Unfortunately for investors, even when fundamentals look reasonably good for the economy, world headline events can make the sellers rush to the desk to dispose of stocks. As China continues to melt…
Here are four stocks that will help you sleep easy regardless of how the broader indexes perform for the rest of this year.
Dogs of the Dow is a dividend strategy for investors to buy what are either "cheap" or "beaten up" Dow stocks. Unfortunately, 2015 was an awful year for the members of the…
December 31, 2015: Markets opened lower on Thursday as energy stocks got a lift from higher crude oil prices, but technology, telecom, and consumer staples traded lower on the last trading day…
An FCC report indicates that from September 2013 to September 2014, the maximum advertised broadband download speed rose from about 37 megabits per second (Mbps) to 72 Mbps.
At the end of every year, myriad strategies are announced for the coming year. With investors continuing to love dividends, one strategy that is reviewed every year is the so-called Dogs of…
While no stocks totally escape headline and market volatility, especially when terrorism is involved, these should be less prone to selling should another Paris or San Bernardino type event happen.
Merrill Lynch is among the first firms to present their top picks for 2016, a decidedly conservative set of picks, and probably with good reason.
With oil plunging, and the market reeling from what should prove to be extremely good news for consumers, many investors are in a quandary over which path to take for 2016.
AT&T is likely to join the ranks of companies hiking their dividends before year-end, but will it out-hike Verizon Communications?
A number of America’s largest private companies are big enough in terms of revenue that had they been public they would have placed in the upper ranks of the Fortune 500. As…
November 27, 2015: Markets opened mixed on Friday but only narrowly up or down from Wednesday’s close. No economic data was due out today and there was little corporate news as well.…
For the period that ended on November 13, the five NYSE companies with the largest short positions were General Electric (NYSE: GE), Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK), Vale S A (NYSE: VALE), Sprint (NYSE: S),…
While investors cannot constantly shuffle the holdings in their portfolios based on every current event, they can shift to companies that pay solid dividends and are less vulnerable to volatility selling.
