US drug companies have a habit of misleading consumers and even physicians. It is a game they have played for decades. Usually they do not get caught. When they do a great cry goes up for reforming...
Pfizer (PFE) posted third-quarter 2007 revenues of $12.0 billion, a 2% decline from the same period last year. The Company’s reported net income was $761 million in the third quarter of 2007, a...
We are updating our list of tier-one Defensive Stocks since so many of these stocks have run up and since lists need continual updating.  Our originally updated list of tier one defensive stocks...
These are this Friday morning’s top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls from Wall Street affecting shares: Allstate (ALL) Raised to Buy at Argus. American Tower Corp. (AMT)...
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...
For Pfizer, it has been a long and painful fall. In early 2004, its shares were just below $39. It was the age of Big Pharma. Most of the big drugs had not gone "off patent" and so there...
Comscore has released data that say that 33 million people researched presciption medications on the internet in Q3. That is up 18% from the same quarter last year. More important for Big Pharma, 31%...
Comscore has released data that say that 33 million people researched presciption medications on the internet in Q3. That is up 18% from the same quarter last year. More important for Big Pharma, 31%...
Pfizer is going to fire 2,000 salesmen, 20% of its domestic sales force. Lehman Bros estimated that the move could save $440 million a year. The company’s reasoning would appear to be that as...
FuelCell Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCEL) is not the biggest household name in alternative energy stocks, but is up this morning on a contract win.  The maker of ultra-clean power plants using renewable...
On Today’s STOP TRADING segment on CNBC:  Cramer asked if the economy is so strong why do industrials post so-so numbers?  Cramer said PPG Industries (PPG) could fall to $60.00,...
Not a good quarter for Pfizer (PFE). Second quarter revenue fell 6% to $11.1 billion. Net income was down 48% to $1.3 billion. The loss of U.S. exclusivity for Zoloft and Norvasc hurt earnings as did...
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) just got its long-term ratings downgraded by Moody’s.  It is amazing that bond ratings agencies still get to operate in a business as usual manner, but they do.  Long gone...
Source: Jon OggDividends have continued to rise.  Better yet, they are expected to keep rising for the rest of the year.  A study from Dow Jones Indexes showed a rise of almost 2.2% so far this...