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Jon OggAgilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is often forgotten about by investors now, but the company operates in more than 100 nations and employs more than 18,000 workers.  The company is into...
The trade in 2011 was to go out and turn utility stocks into the new investment for retirees seeking income.  They couldn’t exactly get any big yield in certificates of deposit, and loaning Uncle...
With this being the first week of the year, many analysts, market pundits, and media outlets are revamping their picks and outlooks for 2012.  Jim Cramer on CNBC’s Mad Money this week came out...
It seems that most investors have started adding income or dividend reinvestment plans to their portfolios by using dividend stocks. With the yields of the 10-Year Treasury close to 2% and the...
For several years it has been the case that Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) was considered a biotech though it had at least some of the same problems of Big Pharma players like Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE)...
It was not that long ago that Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO) was removed from our 2012 Model Dividend Portfolio.  Our take was that the metrics of the domestic tobacco industry were changing to where...
2011 was more or less a wash for stock performance when it was all said and done.  There were several great stories and there were many duds.  24/7 Wall St. has compiled a list of what should be...
The lineup of the Dogs of the Dow, simply the ten highest dividend yield stocks of the thirty Dow Jones Industrial Average components, appears to be undergoing a bit of change for 2012.  There is a...
TrimTabs is showing what many investors might have expected.  After such a volatile year in the stock market, investors are seeking safety in the nearly no-income offered by bond funds and bank...
It is no secret that Iran is a saber-rattling nation. The country wants to be relevant on the global stage so much that it keeps up with its nuclear ambitions regardless of global trading sanctions...
If you ever run a “value screen” in the world of stock strategies, Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) shows up all the time as a “cheap tech stock.”  Unfortunately, this is a...
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) is cleaning out of its position in Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. (NYSE: ETE).  The MLP has announced that it has agreed to sell 22,762,636 common units...
Investors are chasing up rent-based assets because they are searching for yield. Earning 2% per year by lending Uncle Sam money is not enticing, so investors are still on the prowl for dividends with...
The continued rise in tobacco stocks is certainly cheered by tobacco stock investors who own the stocks for the high dividends.  The problem is that there seems to be a phantom premium now being...
This is an interesting point in time for the sector of Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs).  The oil and gas business could greatly unlock much of the domestic unemployment woes (and the trade...