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Grocery stores and supermarkets get whipsawed by rising prices on food commodities, rising prices from food processing companies, and rising fuel prices on one hand and higher unemployment and...
Markets opened lower this morning, and continued to fall before holding at around -150 points for most of the day on the DJIA. Japan’s yen sale pushed the dollar sharply higher and pushed down...
They’re Here!  Next week will launch the corporate earnings season for the third quarter.  The media is going to tell you that this is the most important earnings season in quite some time.  The...
If you have ever seen a private equity wish list if companies, Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFM) would be on it.  The stores are sleek, the products are at a premium, and its customers seem to...
Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) is just a drugstore… Right?  Maybe not any longer in entirety.  As of last year, the company operated 7,650 drugstores and it owned 37 strip shopping malls.  It turns...
Investors need to consider one thing about investing in retail.  This is quite likely to be the next bastion of dividend growth for investors seeking income to buffer market volatility in the...
It seems that being a junk bond credit investor still allows you to pick from a whole slew of companies that should not be junk bonds.  Unfortunately, you as an investor will probably never really...
It’s time for our daily look at commodity prices and developments that will carry over ahead in commodities. Corn and cattle prices top today’s news and these both have many implications on the...
These are some of this Friday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. (NYSE: AB) Cut to Neutral and $26...
There is a long-standing debate over the effect and impact of share buyback plans. What is not up for debate is that many companies have given big updates or announced new buyback plans in the month...
These are some of this Wednesday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls.  This morning we have two key updates from late yesterday afternoon,...
There have always been questions about whether stock buybacks are an effective return of cash to shareholders.  The theory is a simple one:  reducing the number of shares outstanding boosts the...
These are some of this Friday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Banco Santander S.A. (NYSE: STD) Raised to Overweight at HSBC. Broadcom...
Earnings season is about to kick off this week with three DJIA components and a slew of other influential sector-moving companies.  The key reports we are watching first are CSX Corp. (NYSE: CSX),...
Next week we have three key DJIA components reporting earnings, and many other market-moving and sector-moving companies are on deck as well.  The DJIA components on deck with earnings will be Intel...