Time will tell whether paying $1.1 billion for Tumblr is a wise decision, but the deal, announced this morning, certainly shows Yahoo’s (NASDAQ:YHOO) new-ish CEO Marissa Mayer is serious about restarting ...

A new study from the non-partisan Employee Benefit Research Institute doesn’t tread in the investing waters, but it nonetheless does a great job explaining why dividend-paying stocks could remain in demand ...

It has been clear in recent earnings seasons that companies in the S&P 500 are achieving growth in profitability thanks more to their ability to cut or keep a lid on their costs than to their success in ...

Like a game of whack-a-mole, no matter how many times Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) attempts to put to rest lawsuits over the marketing of its Risperdal antipsychotic, another claim pops up. The latest ...

Stamps.com (NASDAQ:STMP) shareholders just saw their fortunes shoot up some 50%, as seen in a stock chart , on little more than an earnings surprise that made investors realize they’d underestimated the ...

Amid the tumult that is the drug industry, pharma layoffs have long since become commonplace. And keeping tabs can be quite an exercise, but here are two of the latest examples. Purdue Pharma is scrapping ...

The well-documented failure that is the shift from pensions to the 401(k) (most working people just don’t save), calls from the Political Right, increasingly heeded by the Left, to scale back Social Security ...

You have to think that Germany might have been a dissenting voice during the recent G7 meeting where finance officials decided to tacitly let Japan continue its yen-weakening easing. After all, exports ...

Whoever said every ending is a new beginning obviously isn’t following the bond market. Last week, Pimco’s Bill Gross clearly enunciated that the decades long bond rally is over. But then this week he ...

For computer software warhorse, CA Inc. (NASDAQ:CA), the outlook is overcast, due to the cloud. CA, based in Islandia, N.Y., thrives on milking its installed-base customers, providing software, maintenance ...

Shares of Myriad Genetics (NASDAQ:MYGN) spiked higher yesterday to hit their highest levels on record since mid-2009, as seen in a stock chart . The move came in the wake of the New York Times op-ed by ...

The 6% earnings yield for S&P 500 stocks is nearly 3x the yield of a 10-Year Treasury note. That’s well above the historic norm of 1.6x dating back to the 1940s. Bull leaners take note: S&P Capital IQ ...

From the looks of trading in Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX), Jim Chanos is no David Einhorn. Chanos bashed Seagate as a value trap in a presentation at a major investment conference last Wednesday, but ...

Master limited partnerships (MLP) investments are notorious for creating onerous tax filing requirements, and that reputation leads a lot of investors to choose MLP funds over shares of individual companies. ...

File this under 'Why didn't they know any better?' Four years ago, Sanofi (NYSE:SNY) grew worried that a generic version of its best-selling Plavix blood thinner would gain attention from physicians and ...

The 7.5% overall unemployment rate is still well above average for an economy in year four of a recovery. But for the CFOs of teen/young adult clothing retailers Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF), American ...

Investors who like to bet that certain nascent technologies will go mainstream have pushed up 3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) shares some 240% in the past two years, as seen in a stock chart . They’re about to get ...

The marketing gods couldn’t have conjured up a better strategy for stock wary investors than the low volatility approach that favors old reliables such as General Mills (NYSE:GIS), Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) ...

Moody’s Analytics (NYSE:MCO) chief economist Mark Zandi expects the rest of the year to be a bit of drag as the full impact of sequestration will hit in the summer, sucking precious wind out of an already ...

Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) recent announcement that it will swap out last year’s $10 billion stock repurchase plan with a $60 billion buyback plan to be completed by the end of 2015 is just the latest (and ...

Steve Eisman of Emrys Partners made his name and a small fortune by selling short the U.S. housing market (or, more specifically, correctly betting that securitized subprime mortgages were heading toward ...

A much-anticipated settlement of various federal government probes into Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) marketing of the Risperdal antipsychotic, as well as other medications, is being delayed over language ...

Priceline (NASDAQ:PCLN) urges its members to “name your own price” for their holiday flights, hotel bookings and car rentals; investors in the company’s stock, however, are going to have to get used to ...

File this under ‘what were they thinking?’ In a puzzling move that has drawn considerable skepticism, the FDA late last week approved a new combination cholesterol pill from Merck (NYSE:MRK). But instead ...

Investment advisors have been pouring billions of dollars into master limited partnership funds in recent years, grabbing on to these high-yielding securities as godsends for increasingly desperate, income-hungry ...

For the first time in decades, US spending on medicines has ticked downwards. Overall, the money spent by consumers totaled $325.8 billion last year, a 1 percent drop from 2011, according to IMS Health. ...

Over the last week or so, in the run-up to the Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) annual meeting, there has been – once again – a lot of buzz surrounding the succession plan that Warren Buffett has put in ...

Coinstar’s (NASDAQ:CSTR) roots lie in some rather 20th century ideas: vending machines and counting up all those pesky coins that accumulate over the course of a month and enabling customers to turn them ...

Who, exactly, is J.C. Penney (NYSE:JCP) talking to in those heart-felt ads, the ones where the company apologizes for changing its stores and begs shoppers for a second chance? Is it women who supposedly ...

Midcap stocks have delivered better performance than large caps of late. That’s attracted plenty of money into exchanged traded funds that specialize in midcaps. The iShares Core S&P Midcap ETF (NYSEARCA:IJH) ...

All industrial conglomerates are not created equal, clearly, and Bloomberg Businessweek has a smart story on how David Cote, who didn’t even make the final three in the race to succeed Jack Welch at General ...

Granted, Regeneron Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ:REGN) Kansas City Southern (NYSE:KSU) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX), the three largest stocks in the S&P 400 Midcap index don’t exactly have the same ...

Here’s a riddle: What company can recall a big chunk of its inventory, warn of a “significant impact” on its financial results, and still get a 13% rise in its share price in the following seven weeks? ...

Imagine having an extra $100,000 or more to invest in great stocks that exhibit dividend growth, to fund your retirement. Or $200,000 if you have two kids. College tuition , which of course is just another ...

If you’ve got enough investable money to be spending time on YCharts, you either already have, or will likely have in the future, college-aged children. And unless you’ve reached a state of Zen unknown ...

All this talk about JPMorgan Chase’s (NYSE:JPM) reputation problems can be particularly unsettling for its conservative shareholders, many of whom assumed that banking post-financial crisis was a non-controversial ...

The narrowing of Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) profit margins is one of the factors that has led to a huge decline in share price, as seen in a stock chart . Most of the focus by investors has been on the iPhone ...

Investors abandoned Live Nation (NYSE:LYV) after the leading concert promoter failed to deliver on synergistic growth expected from the 2010 purchase of Ticketmaster. The stock has recovered more than ...

Tech stocks have a cloudy outlook, caused by the migration of customers to cloud computing. And that has helped lower the value of many tech bellwethers well below those of other industry groups. Some ...

Warren Buffett deservedly gets loads of attention from fellow investors, both for his amazing record running Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) and for the outspoken, self-critical and quirky way he communicates. ...

Institutional investors have been busy elbowing their way into a real estate investment segment previously occupied mostly by small investors: renting out single-family homes. Over the past few years Blackstone ...

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) shareholders attending this year’s annual meeting will be an extra-happy bunch, as the conglomerate’s stock price gain has more than doubled the S&P 500 ’s over the past ...

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) is shelling out $2.05 billion to purchase the remaining 20% of Israeli-based industrial tool manufacturer IMC International Metalworking Companies. In 2006 Berkshire Hathaway ...

Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) stock sank on news the postal meter maker would halve its long-cherished dividend, and the move ought to send yield junkies, who’ve been loading up on dividend-paying stocks, in ...

With the EIA forecasting an average price of $3.41 and $3.63 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) in 2013 and 2014, respectively, is the financial health of exploration companies with weak hedge books, ...

Large stakes in DirecTV (NASDAQ:DTV) and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) have contributed to double-digit gains in 2013 for the $1 billion Weitz Value fund and the $846 million Weitz Partners Value fund. ...

The latest trend in hiring has more corporations bypassing executive recruiting firms in favor of using in-house HR departments for talent searches. This is, of course, a horrid development for executive ...

The domestic abundance and competitive pricing of natural gas is pushing the industrial transport industry to consider it as a more cost effective fuel source. In early March BNSF, the railroad wholly ...