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The world of shipping dry goods, sea containers, and oil and commodities has been in a very strange place so far in 2012.  Dividend investors need to start evaluating whether or not they want to...
American Electric Power Company (NYSE: AEP) is trying to show the all-clear sign and help to assure its dividend investors that it can still grow and can still keep paying out that great 4.8%...
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) reported earnings growth of 43% to $2.18 billion or $0.40 EPS net but the non-GAAP report followed by analysts was $0.47 EPS.    Revenues rose by 11% to $11.5...
Private equity firms are bad and evil because they fire workers to juice profits for billionaires who get to pay low tax rates!  Is that the right logic?  What if you found out that private equity...
Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is set to report earnings on Wednesday after the closing bell and all companies in telecom and communications will be watching handily.  After a poor earnings...
Any time you have a shareholder talking up a company, you have to understand that they are talking up their book.  Billionaires do this, and they tend to be listened to more than others when it...
2012 is getting off to a great start for the equity markets.  We recently looked at the performance of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.B), which is underperforming this year so...
Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is getting clocked today after earnings.  Some of the news should have been anticipated that Thai floods affected its supply chain in Asia because the company already...
Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) has reported earnings for its second quarter and the consumer products giant has turned in earnings of $0.57 EPS but the normalized earnings was $1.10 EPS on $22.14...
This was definitely going to be a different sort of FOMC day with the way that the new communications are going to show more of the inner-thinking of the Federal Reserve on rates and monetary...
Junk bonds, or high-yield bonds are at a level that all income investors need to be paying attention to.  After a big recovery in the sector and after the markets have gotten off to a good 2012,...
Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (NYSE: FDO) is showing just how a secular trend is still going to rule the roost in retail.  It was Dollar Tree, Inc. (NASDAQ: DLTR) hitting new all-time highs yesterday,...