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24/7 Wall St. has done an analysis of the largest companies in the United States based on the size of their portfolios of major consumer brands. Many of these brands are worth billions of dollars if...
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of March 31, 2011 for the Q2-2011 holdings.  These public stock...
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) is holding up better than we might have expected following its secondary offering.  The coffee conglomerate traded above $78.00 briefly this week...
The drop in commodities may help rally the dollar (Reuters) The moderating growth of jobs claims is seen as a threat to the recovery (Reuters) A sharp drop in commodities prices hurt the stock market...
Earnings season may have peaked but we still have some key sector moving stocks due to report earnings on Thursday morning.  We have offered previews and some basic color on shares of Airgas Inc....
There is an ETF for just about everything, and now there is one geared solely around the consumption of food.  Global X Funds has launched yet another niche ETF with the lauch of the Global X Food...
Today’s commodities news starts off with bursting warehouses full of zinc, an unexpected rise in cocoa futures, and an equally unexpected fall in corn and wheat prices. The stockpile of zinc at the...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Arcelor Mittal (NYSE: MT) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs....
Time for our daily look at the world of commodity prices and key developments. Corn futures continue their seemingly inexorable march toward $8/bushel as wet and windy weather in the US Midwest...
Dallas-based Epsilon reported a break-in to the company’s email system that exposed some of the data the company maintains for clients using its email marketing services. Epsilon is a subsidiary of...
JPMorgan recently increased its profit estimate for the S&P 500 2011 earnings from $94 to $97.50. The bank is not alone in its optimism. The direction of the market, which has recently hit...
Time now for our daily look at commodity prices and news. Today’s news is dominated by two reports from the US Department of Agriculture. One provides the USDA’s latest figures on grain stocks,...
Defensive stocks are supposed to offer you some safety in times of uncertainty.  High-yield stock dividends are also supposed to offer you a safer harbor in choppy markets as well.  In today’s...
Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) did end up signing a pact with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR).  The move was obvious to some, but will be shocking to others.  Starbucks...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has shown its latest holdings as of the close on December 31, 2010 and the changes were extreme due to a unit portfolio manager...