One heavy load the market faces is the price of oil which, to my surprise, no longer helps people when it falls, perhaps because the US is now a swing producer. Back when I worked for the Senate Forei...
Expectations were hardly sky high for AAPL heading into a quarter in which most of its suppliers had already announced iPhone sales would be disappointing, and moments ago AAPL validated many of these...
We recently forecasted the price levels where Apple would stop falling. We identified really big support around the $95 area. The chart shows that Apple indeed stopped its fall right below $95. Meanti...
Hormel (HRL) is the most recent dividend king to be crowned. The company recently raised its dividend by 16%, marking its 50th consecutive dividend increase. Any company that manages such an accomplis...
Two ‘internet stocks’ used to play the DJINET/stock market bounce scenario As noted the other day, I did what I thought was the right thing and de-risked the ‘bounce’ scenario by taking some ...
Hop on this once-in-a-decade opportunity to earn a 24% and growing yield from an ETF that only owns companies with stable, fee-based revenues. With little downside risk to the dividend being reduced, ...
Written by Doug Short and Steven Hansen The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index improved to 98.1 in January from the December final reading of 96.3, a small downward revision of DecemberR...
US equities were in rally mode today, ahead of the FOMC decision tomorrow and Apple’s earnings out tonight. As you may recall I have suggested that we would see stocks rally off the recent botto...
Peter Schiff recently appeared on Newmax Prime with J.D. Hayworth and tackled the issue of falling oil prices and crashing stock markets, saying there is no causal relationship between the two. In fa...
Five years ago, Amazon (AMZN) closed at $171. It recently traded at $594. That is a pretty spectacular five year return – just over 28% annualized. Returns have been delivered by the stock. And perf...