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It is no secret that the end of the relationship between Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) and Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) has been without much love.  In fact, Starbucks wanted out early and...
Earnings season is actually close to winding down for the December quarter.  We still have many late reports coming out for the December quarter and year-end.  We have identified 11 of the top...
For the first nine months of its 2010 fiscal year, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (NYSE: DD) got nearly one-third of its sales from its agricultural and nutrition division. That’s more than any...
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...
There has been an amazing feat in 2010.  All of the most recent companies which have been booted out of the Dow Jones Industrial Average have outperformed their replacement stocks and the broad...
Coffee prices have been rising, primarily as a result of a projected failure in the Colombian crop due to heavy rains. Colombia usually produces about 12 million bags of coffee annually. Weak crops...
The longer-end of the curve is is still rising.  Earlier we had seen the highest yields since June, and now we are seeing the highest yields since May.  The 10-Year Treasury yield has broken the...
Reuters: Obama’s deal with Congress will extend Bush tax cuts for two years. Reuters:  The US will sell its remaining shares in Citigroup (NYSE: C) and will make a $12 billion profit. Reuters:...
The ongoing battle between Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) and Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) is getting more heated and it has industry-wide implications for the coffee sector.  Kraft alleges...
Twitter  has, by most estimates, 145 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million...
Investors have tried for years to follow the strategy of Warren Buffett, considered by many to be the greatest investor in history. That’s ironic given how little he seems to care about ups and...
When Starbucks Coffee Company (NASDAQ: SBUX) filed its Form 10-K last week, it had this to say about its relationship with Kraft Foods Global, Inc., the division of Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) that...
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) has shown its latest holdings as of the close on September 30, 2010 and the changes continue be much more extreme than in prior...
Next week is the beginning of the end of earnings season as November gets started, but we still have many key earnings to watch and there are still many large companies reporting earnings.  We have...
These are some of this Thursday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: A) Raised to Buy at Stifel Nicolaus....