Merck & Co Inc

NYSE: MRK
$98.31
-$0.19 (-0.2%)
Closing Price on November 14, 2024

MRK Articles

Toyota (TM) got a small taste of things to come. The company already faces a raft of class action and liability suits. Now, a suit which involves the crash of a Lexus ES 350 after it mysteriously...
There are twelve major pharmaceutical firms that dominate this industry worldwide. Their combined market value is over $1 trillion with total  annual sales  of over $500 billion. The firms have...
Reuters:   The EU summit will address the Greek bailout. Reuters:   Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) will test an ultra-high speed broadband system. Reuters:   Sweden took that top spot from the US for use...
Reuters:   Dubai said the market’s perceptions of its problems is “softening.” Reuters:   Citigroup (NYSE:C) could sell $20 billion in shares soon. Reuters:   Hershey (NYSE:HSY) is near a...
You might think that companies tend to repurchase fewer and fewer shares in their share buyback plans when shares rise and rise.  When you compare the moves from the March 9 close, the price moves...
Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK) barely has its Schering-Plough deal behind it.  And today came the announcement of its dividend rate, but more importantly came word of a large share repurchase...
Dillard’s Inc. (NYSE: DDS) rose as high as over 10% to a yearly high of $15.79 after the department-store chain was upgraded by Deutsche Bank AG.   Dress Barn Inc. (NASDAQ: DBRN) rose as high as...
FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) over 3% to a yearly high of $84.92.  Barron’s reported that the package delivery company may rise as high as $100 dollars according to a survey of investors and analysts....
Reuters:   Toyota (NYSE:TM) returned to a profit. Reuters:   The Fed will keep rates near zero for an extended period. Reuters:   Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) beat forecasts. Reuters:   Gold is near...
We have seen earnings from five of the thirty DJIA components this morning alone.  All were above expectations, even if some of the year over year comparisons do not look that great at some.  We...
We have already run the 5 of the 30 DJIA components that reported earnings this morning.  But we still have 7 more of the 30 DJIA components reporting during the rest of this week alone.   The...
The short interest in Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) was steady in the period that ended on September 30 at 16 million shares.The bet being made against RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) rose 13% to 13% to 19.2 million.  The...
Wasn’t it just last week that we were up eight days in a row on the DJIA?  And now we have a sell-the-news reaction to the recent growth numbers.  Maybe it is because we ran too far too fast and...
Reuters:   UBS (UBS) shares may fall when the Swiss government sells out. Reuters:   The US deficit estimate was trimmed to $1.59 trillion. Reuters:   A homeowner sued Wells Fargo (WFC) over a...
Reuters:   Banks paid out billions of dollars in bonuses last year while losing money. Reuters:   The US closed  its car “clunkers” program just as it began as funds ran out. Reuters:  ...