Is Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) Safe in a Global Downturn?
By Tyler Kocon For the past several decades, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) has been one of the largest names in consumer goods. The company, founded by Sam Walton, began modestly in Arkansas in 1962...
View ArticleTarget (NYSE:TGT) Acts to Stop “Showrooming”
By Amy Gilroy For the specialist, and for any brick and mortar store, a concern is that consumers are using your shop as a showroom, only to leave empty-handed and price shop online. Target Corporation...
View ArticleStock Portfolio Moves: GILD, ITUB, COP, KSS
By Mark Holder The Net Payout Yields model gained a solid 4.9% in February versus 4.1% for the benchmark S&P 500. As typical of this conservative model, it tends to gain alongside the market on the...
View ArticleThe Closed-End Fund That Could See A Catalyst This Week: Boulder Growth &...
By Michael Tarsala It’s not every day that a closed-end fund is a mover and shaker, but a potential catalyst could come as early as this week for Boulder Growth and Income, a CEF that is heavily...
View ArticleSodaStream International (NASDAQ:SODA) Still Has Plenty of Fizz Left
By Eric Steiman Global investors have beaten down SodaStream International (NASDAQ:SODA) from its all-time highs of around $80 dollars per share. The stock is currently trading in the mid-30s. The...
View ArticleWeekly Stock Watch: SIRI, FB, JPM, C, BAC, M, JWN, JCP, SKS, TGT, PBTH, KERX,...
By VFC’s Stock House Huge trading losses at JP Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) that sent company shares spiraling by 10% on Friday accentuated an already lackluster trading week in the broad markets...
View ArticleJobless Claims Rise: Bad News For Retail?
By Michael Tarsala Uh Oh. Jobless claims posted their biggest one-week gain in more than a year. An increase of 34,000 from last week brings the new claims reading to 386,000, topping even the highest...
View ArticleAre We in a Dividend Stock Bubble? Nope.
By Charles Sizemore No, Virginia. There is no bubble in dividend-paying stocks. This is not to say that defensive sectors of the market are not overpriced compared to more cyclical sectors, or that...
View ArticleAs the Food and Beverage Industry Adapts to Healthier Products for Consumers,...
By Glen S. Woods Consumers are demanding healthier, more natural foods with less sugar, fat, and salt — and companies of all sizes are taking note. The obesity epidemic in America, which has spread to...
View ArticleJohn Browne: Banks Punished for Central Bank and Political Errors
By John Browne In recent decades politicians have increasingly followed the Keynesian prescription of economic growth through continued government borrowing and the creation of undreamt of amounts of...
View ArticleStock Watch for Monday, November 12th
By VFC’s Stock House At the conclusion of each week, VFC’s Stock House examines some news items, stocks and stories that made headlines during the previous trading week, but may also make headlines or...
View ArticleStock Watch for Monday, November 19th, 2012
By VFC’s Stock House An up day on Friday wasn’t quite enough to eliminate another overall down week for the markets as flare-ups in the Middle East and concerns over the pending fiscal cliff in the...
View ArticleRobert Reich: Why You Shouldn’t Shop at Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE:WMT) on Friday
By Robert Reich A half century ago America’s largest private-sector employer was General Motors (NYSE:GM), whose full-time workers earned an average hourly wage of around $50, in today’s dollars,...
View ArticleThe Retail Madness of Black Friday Explained
By Xavier Brenner Imagine if an alien spaceship on a recon mission to earth were to monitor the Black Friday retail madness this year. What would they make of the riot scene at Best Buy Co. Inc....
View ArticleWeekly Stock Watch: AAPL, RIMM, GOOG, EBAY, AMZN, WMT, BA, GE, F, IMSC, SGYP,...
By VFC’s Stock House After a week of celebrating family, friends, turkeys and stuffing, there’ll be plenty to keep us occupied on the markets during the coming trading week. A festive holiday mood, a...
View ArticleThe Great Corporate Dividend Payout Stampede (COST, LVS, DDS, DIS)
By Xavier Brenner The twists and turns of fiscal cliff budget talks have left the stock market in manic depressive mode with mood swings galore. Just what mix of spending cuts and tax hikes will emerge...
View ArticleRobert Reich: Why the Fed’s Jobs Program Will Fail
By Robert Reich For the first time, the Federal Reserve has explicitly linked interest rates to unemployment. Rates will remain near zero “at least as long” as unemployment remains above 6.5 percent...
View ArticleRobert Reich: How We Can Avoid Raising Taxes on the Middle Class or Cutting...
By Robert Reich Brace yourself. In coming weeks you’ll hear there’s no serious alternative to cutting Social Security and Medicare, raising taxes on middle class, and decimating what’s left of the...
View ArticleRobert Reich: The Non Zero-Sum Society
By Robert Reich As President Obama said in his inaugural address last week, America “cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.” Yet that continues to be the...
View ArticleCalm Down, Everyone: Low Volatility Investing Strategies Are Killing It
By Xavier Brenner The once-enshrined investing maxim that there’s no high reward without high risk is getting a serious rethink these days from both finance academics and stock market investors. As I...
View ArticleChronic Pain Sufferers May Rest “Assured” With This Small Pharmacy (APHY,...
By Phil Lassiter Pain Medications: Not a Painless Task to Acquire When one thinks of pharmacy companies, any of the large corporate brands can come to mind, depending on where you live. The pharmacy...
View ArticleWeekly Stock Watch: SNWV, SSH, FPMI, AA, WMT, PIR, BBBY, HTWR, THOR
By VFC’s Stock House As the broad market rally looks to have sputtered, and with the upcoming earnings season not expected to blow away estimates by any means, investors will be looking to bank profits...
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