Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) shares are down 2.14% and Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) is down 2.7% which is sending up an old friend of traders the coveted 'SKF' or ProShares UltraShort Financials (ETF) (NYSE:SKF) up 1.2%.
Feels like a bank run on ya see, what's the big [...]
Sometimes you are just looking for a good dividend stock of a solid company to get your portfolio stabilized a bit. We present to you Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) and Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK).
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Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE:ANF) may have fallen from grace with the younglings.
The company said Thursday that its November comparable store sales fell 17%, missing analysts' estimates of a 9.3% decrease, after bigger-than-expected declines across its namesake chain, Hollister and Abercrombie shops. Total sales fell 8% to $245.7' [...]
AK Steel Holding Corp. (NYSE:AKS) shares have been on a tear since November, in the last 30 days AKS has jumped from $15 to today's price of $20.90.
Thanks to Goldman's hat tip on American Steel stocks yesterday AK Steel is enjoying [...]
Airline Stocks including JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ:JBLU), Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE:LUV), and US Airways Group, Inc. (NYSE:LCC) are all up today.
The Airline sector, which fell last Friday on the "Dubai Scare", have turned around and are now gapping up nicely.
There isn't much news to report on the' [...]
America Online is now just AOL (NYSE:AOL) and the company is officially on its own again after the split from Time Warner (NYSE:TWX). Shares of AOL started trading on Tuesday at $27 and finished its first week down 14% to $23 even. The public will [...]
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) is an attractive stock for its dividends and price appreciation. Pfizer closed at $18.25 at the end of the trading day Friday and currently offers a dividend yield of 3.5%. In addition, PFE has been in a steady, uptrending price channel since early March [...]
Canadian Oil Sand companies such as Suncor Energy (NYSE:SU), Imperial Oil Limited (AMEX:IMO), Syncrude Canada Ltd. and Canadian Natural (NYSE:CNQ) not only have to worry about the volatile price of oil -- negative press and environmentalists could be the larger hurdle for them to conquer.
Brazil's Real is the most overvalued currency according to the all powerful Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS). The bank says a 2% tax on foreign purchases has yet to prove effective at control, as a "wall of money" has led the real to appreciate 34% this year.
You can [...]
S&P downgraded Foot Locker's (NYSE:FL) corporate credit rating to B+, expecting the company to continue to have "ongoing performance difficulty."
After continuing negative same-store sales you just have to wonder who still buys shoes there intentionally? If you're in the mall -- okay, but its not like' [...]
How much longer can Potash prices continue to plunge?
At some point the two all-star potash companies are worth reviewing, those weapons of choice being Potash Corp. (NYSE:POT) and Mosaic Co. (NYSE:MOS). Thanks to Agriculture (AG) making a recent comeback another one-size-fits-all investment is the PowerShares DB [...]
On a day like this which stocks are not doing so well?
How about Blockbuster Inc. (NYSE:BBI), its shares are now trading for 75 cents. In the last 5 years Blockbuster has lost its business to Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and its stock has dropped 91%. [...]
Shares of Titanium Metals Corporation (Public, NYSE:TIE) are up 9% on the day and 13% since our buy recommendation on November 4th.
We told you they were going to gain soon from Boeing's reliance on Titanium, and news today confirmed our prediction:
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Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:PLA) is up 25% today, as rumors are churning about a potential buyout of the struggling company.
According to two people close to the situation, Playboy is in talks to sell itself to Iconix Brand Group Inc.
How much would the company sell for?
Playboy currently has 26.91M [...]
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NYSE:AMD) shares hit a new 52-week high of $6.73 a share, today's 22% increase is fueling buying as AMD shares back down to the $6.45 level.
Intel is forking out $1.25 billion to AMD, its poetic justice for AMD and its shareholders.
Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE:WMT) has done it again, the largest retailer in the world beat the street and shares are trading flat in the $53 range. WMT came in 3 cents above the consensus estimate and they issued earnings guidance for next quarter that is in line [...]
Kiss the Dollar Good-bye, that's the way the media and Wall Street has been treating the U.S. currency lately. As more negative press is spilled out on an hourly basis about the declining greenback the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish (NYSE:UUP) continues its fade to black. [...]
Goldman Sachs' (NYSE:GS) CEO explained to the public that they pay more because their employees are more productive and just downright special. Quote of the Year --"What people fail to mention is that net income generated per head is a multiple of our peer' [...]
