Noteworthy Dividend Increases Speak Volumes For Top Companies (GLW, UNP)
Stock News Dividend paying companies are in vogue again, with many investors turning to this traditional way of profiting from a security from dividend payments as well as increasing share prices. For many corporations, dividends have never ceased to be a way ...
Can Investors Count On A Santa Rally In 2011?
Stock News Following a difficult year in the stock market, investors are hoping for a little holiday cheer this year in the form of a December rally. Market timers like to refer to this late season upside trend as the Santa Rally, and this year, investors are ...
Considering Following Buffett’s Lead And Buying IBM? Why That Could Be A Wise Move (IBM)
Stock News Professional investors love to watch see where the whales are investing, and on Monday they got a glimpse of where the billionaires are putting their money with the release of the 13F filings. Among the most noteworthy was the announcement that super-investor ...
Upbeat Day For Global Markets As Investors Focus On Fundamentals, Positive US Consumer Sentiment Report (CAT)
Stock News Friday morning saw US markets continuing their move upward as investors remain hopeful that the long standing European debt issues are at last being addressed, and on a better than anticipated US consumer sentiment report. The trend continued into mid-day ...
Can The Battered Tech Sector Provide The Best Buying Opportunities? (AMAT)
Stock News 2011 has proved to be a tough year for stocks in the tech sector. Just look at the performance of the tech-heavy NASDAQ, an index that is up only 1.2% year-to-date, indicating little buying interest in tech stocks, and marking a flat performance for ...
Look To Dividend Paying Stocks To Protect Your Portfolio (ETN,IP)
Stock News For long-term investors, the advantages of investing in dividend paying stocks are numerous. Dividend paying stocks offer investors income while they wait for share prices to rise, and can act as a form of portfolio insurance during turbulent markets. Among ...
BP And The Enduring Lustre Of Black Gold
Stock News BP is one of the corporate giants of the petrochemical world, but just 18 months ago, an accident in the Gulf of Mexico had some convinced that it was headed for bankruptcy or take-over. On 20th April 2010, an explosion on the rig left 11 workers dead ...
Could This Airline Stock Help Your Investment Gains Takeoff? (LUV)
Stock News In light of the upcoming weekend summit of Euro zone leaders to discuss a potential solution to the debt crisis plaguing the region, markets have been fluctuating between hope and despair as news of a potential breakthrough is countered with denials of ...
Volatile Stocks Swing Wildly Ahead of Sunday’s EU Summit
Stock News Markets in the US continued to trade in a choppy manner as all eyes continued to focus on the outcome of this weekend’s EU summit. Headline news, continued to drive the US equity markets despite better than expected manufacturing news, that reflects ...
Can One Man Make A Difference In The Corporate World?
Stock News Many of us will have had the conversation with a colleague where grave misgivings about the shape things are taking within the organisation are shared. No matter how heart-felt these convictions are by one or both parties, the conversation always ends ...
