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 ...

Gap Inc. (NYSE:GPS) isn’t the hottest, the most stylish or the fastest-growing retailer. But when it comes to competing with Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), it might be the savviest. At its annual meeting with investors ...

Akami Technology’s (NASDAQ:AKAM) beautiful earnings report last week had a lot of growth investors slapping their foreheads in a why-didn’t-we-see-this-earlier moment. They ramped up the share price nearly ...

If it were called revenue season, rather than earnings season, the first quarter would have long ago been deemed a major disappointment with an attendant market sell-off. According to S&P Capital IQ , ...

This is part of a YCharts series analyzing dividend-payers across all 10 sectors of the S&P 500. The first in our series showed readers how to find dividend stars and focused on healthcare stocks . Subsequent ...

Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) shares are up some 25% in the days since reporting first quarter earnings, which is the kind of rise that usually requires a much more dramatic event. So what did investors see in ...

It is a testament J.M. Smucker’s (NYSE:SJM) brands that grocery shoppers continued buy its Concord Grape Jelly and Blueberry Syrup throughout the recession, even though those products sat right next to ...

This is part of a YCharts series analyzing dividend-payers across all 10 sectors of the S&P 500. The first in our series showed readers how to find dividend stars and focused on healthcare stocks . Subsequent ...

As YCharts reported recently, AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV), the pharmaceutical spinoff from (NYSE:ABT), has one huge drug, Humira , sales of $9.3 billion last year, and quite a few drugs that are losing sales as ...

This is part of a YCharts series analyzing dividend-payers across all 10 sectors of the S&P 500. The first in our series showed readers how to find dividend stars and focused on healthcare stocks . Subsequent ...

Okay, so Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) didn’t pull a Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and come in with a positive earnings surprise for the first quarter. The news from Cupertino was a near 18% drop in earnings on revenue ...

Clothing retailer Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ:URBN) is popular on Wall Street now that it’s hitting the fashion trends and reporting the kinds of numbers that often drive share prices higher, as seen in a ...

This is part of a YCharts series analyzing dividend-payers across all 10 sectors of the S&P 500. The initial article explained how to find dividend stars and focused on healthcare stocks. Subsequent articles ...

Redmond, Washington must be suffering from a bit of market shock right now. For the first time in eons Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is feeling some investor love. The stock has rallied 7% since late last week ...

While the U.S. stock market is showing signs it is headed for a mid-stream correction, the housing sector is showing no signs of let up. Annualized housing starts in March surpassed one million, the first ...

IBM’s (NYSE:IBM) 8.3% face plant on April 19th following a disappointing quarterly earnings report likely didn’t set off any quaking in Omaha. Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) chairman Warren Buffett just ...

Several influential fund managers have picked up shares of Western Union in recent months, a sign that the company has retained its reputation as a solid, dividend-paying investment. It’s quite a feat ...

This is part of a YCharts series analyzing dividend-payers across all 10 sectors of the S&P 500. The initial article explained how to find dividend stars in ten sectors and following articles focused on ...

DISH Network's (NASDAQ:DISH) unsolicited $25.5 billion bid for Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) would create an attractive combination of assets, spectrum bandwidth, and bundled service offerings that could better ...

For years, gold brokers ramped up prices to extraordinary levels with warnings that the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy would create devastating inflation and therefore a high demand for shiny metal. ...

Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) and Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK), two of the largest U.S. producer of natural gas have admitted that unlocking gas trapped in shale-rock formation and selling it for $3.50 per million ...

This is part of a YCharts series analyzing dividend-payers across all 10 sectors of the S&P 500 . The initial article showed readers how to find dividend champs in 10 sectors, followed by articles on dividend ...

If you run an Internet-based company of any sort these days, you’d better make sure people use your site on their smartphones and tablets, not just their PCs. Everyone knows that PC business is dying, ...

This is part of a YCharts series analyzing dividend-payers across all 10 sectors of the S&P 500. The initial article explained how to find dividend stars in 10 sectors. Following articles looked at dividend ...

A smart Wall Street Journal piece today on eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) dropped in a very surprising statistic: since 2000, eBay’s sales have grown at a faster rate than Amazon’s (NASDAQ:AMZN). It’s true, but at ...

This is part three of a YCharts series analyzing dividend-payers across all 10 sectors of the S&P 500 . The first and second in our series are here and here . Once the dowdy sector of choice for conservative ...

The $9 billion Yacktman Focused fund pushes back hard against the notion that active management can’t win over the long-term. Lead manager Don Yacktman has delivered an 8.5% annualized return over the ...

Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) spun off its pharmaceutical business, now known as AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV), in part because the unit’s dependence on rheumatoid arthritis drug Humira for roughly 50% of sales ...

Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) shareholders are trained to focus on the long-term, but even they are human, and for the past few years the stock’s performance in the 12 months between annual meetings ...

The debate du jour amid stocks reaching new highs during a 10% gain in the first quarter is: What’s Next? Are stocks overpriced, fairly priced or perchance, undervalued? Schwab chief investment strategist ...

This is part of a YCharts series analyzing dividend stocks across all 10 sectors of the S&P 500 . In the first quarter, the 13.8% price gain for the S&P 500’s Consumer Defensive sector was second only ...

If research and development spending yields future sales and profit gains – and according to a recent Jack Hough column in Barron’s, there is considerable data to suggest it does – then tomorrow’s growth ...

While your grandparents may have limited their dividend investing to the classic slow-growth/high-income utility and telecom sectors, Richard Skaggs, chief investment strategist at Loomis Sayles pointed ...

It is a testament to investor faith in 787 Dreamliner maker Boeing (NYSE:BA) that its share price has never been down more than a few percentage points this year, even though quite serious problems with ...

Japan’s election of a new government last December -- one that campaigned on a promise to tackle the entrenched economic deadweights of a strong yen and deflation -- triggered a strong stock rally through ...

JC Penney (NYSE:JCP) is looking to raise $1 billion to fund store conversions and stay solvent as the company tries to find its way in a post-Ron Johnson period. One thing the Apple Guy can claim to his ...

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA) just pulled off a feat it would have rather not: For the second straight year it has been voted Worst Company in America in the Consumerist website’s annual vent-fest that pits ...

The circumstances that more than doubled Whole Foods Markets’ (NASDAQ:WFM) share price in a two-year period appear to have changed for good, and that’s led to some mixed opinions about whether the company ...

Eddie Lampert, the hedge fund manager with fabulous self-esteem, is acting as CEO at Sears (NASDAQ:SHLD) these days. And if he wasn’t responsible for the path taken for the past decade at the retail dinosaur, ...

Fabulous article by the Wall Street Journal ’s Julie Jargon today about crummy service at McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD). Geez, you’re thinking, didn’t the last CEO, Jim Skinner, fix that? Actually, as anyone who ...

Remember how dumb it sounded a year ago when Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) paid $1 billion for the photo sharing sight Instagram, a baby of a company with no profits and little track record? It doesn’t look so ...

Shares of Best Buy (NYSE:BBY), a company investors left for dead barely three months ago, are undergoing a resurrection of near miraculous proportions. At least nine industry analysts have joined a lone ...

Shares of YUM! Brands (NYSE:YUM) have been hard hit by China’s bird flu outbreak, which has cleared customers from hundreds of its KFC fast food outlets. It’s a big setback, even if an unfair one, for ...

Now that the passengers from Carnival Corp.’s (NYSE:CCL) smelly and crippled cruise ship Triumph are tired of television interviews, happy talk about the potential for cruise line stocks has begun anew. ...