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Nine Stocks With Increasing Distributions

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:02:33 GMT

I typically try to summarize each week’s dividend increases in the news by outlining the company that raised distributions and whether it is an achiever or not. Just because I list a stock in an article however does not mean I am recommending it.[More...]

Daily Highlights: 10/9/09

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:18:02 GMT

Asian stock markets rose Friday on US gains, with resource and energy stocks leading.Bernanke says Fed ready to tighten monetary policy when economy improves.Dollar rises for first time in 5 days after Bernanke says Fed ready to 'tighten' policy.Initial Jobless claims in US decrease 33,000 to 10-month low of 521,000.Japan Machine Orders increased 0.5% in August, rebounding from record low.[More...]

Insider Buys And Sells: Weekly Wrap-up (10/5/2009)

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:12:58 GMT

For all the analysts and pundits in the financial media, there is still no better judge of a company's health and future prospects than the owners and executives of those companies themselves, along with major institutional shareholders.[More...]

Daily Highlights: Sept 3, 2009

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:54:51 GMT

Asian stocks gain on Gold, Alcoa forecast; Honda drops on strong Yen.China to buy around $50B in notes denominated in the IMF's quasi-currency.[More...]

In, Then Out

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:54:00 GMT

In the fashion world, the rule is: "One day you’re in, and the next day you’re out." Or so says says Heidi Klum, the beautiful blonde host of the television series, "Project Runway." But this cruel reality doesn't only apply in the case of this or any other creative art. The movers-and-shakers on Wall Street have also experienced their share of abrupt popularity shifts through the years, though the fickleness tends to be broad-based. During the boom times, those who know how to make and accumulate large sums of money are lionized and fawned over, in the hope that their golden touch might somehow rub off on the minions below. Eventually, when the bubble bursts and conditions turn sour, so does the mood of the public. Former "masters of the universe" are villified and singled out for[More...]

The Good Bank/Bad Bank And The Ugly

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:34:00 GMT

by Marc Lichtenfeld, Senior Analyst & Healthcare Specialist, Smart Profits Report Dear Smart Profits Report Reader, It wasn’t too long ago that a bad bank just meant one with long lines, rude tellers and high fees. But times are changing and the definition today is completely different. These days, the Obama Administration is putting together a plan to set up a so-called “bad bank” to clean up the many toxic loans eating through the American financial system. Doing this would effectively remove those loans from individual financial institutions’ balance sheets… and put them in the hands of the U.S. government instead. Similar to the Resolution Trust Company that bought and disposed of failed savings and loans companies during the 1980s crisis, what the Obama administration hopes to do is put banks back in the position where[More...]

Dividend Stocks In The News Includes General Electric

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:12:00 GMT

The past two weeks have been pretty uneventful in terms of dividend increases, mainly due to the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Once the majority of market participants returned to their trading desks, it was again business as usual. The markets did end the week 4.20% lower, which left the largest ETF by assets that tracks S&P 500, the SPY, down 1.2% on the year. The increase in unemployment to 16 year highs didn’t help either. The negative tone for the week was set on Monday when a Sterne Agee analyst Nick Heymann speculated that General Electric (GE) likely faces a serious decision - sustain the dividend or the AAA rating. General Electric has confirmed on a number of occasions that it’s dividend of $1.24/share is safe throughout 2009. Despite the reassurance from GE however, there still is an increased chance that GE dividends [More...]

New York Times Opinion Piece by Lewis and Einhorn

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:08:00 GMT

I usually don't bring over opinion pieces to the website, but there is a fascinating one by hedge fund manager David Einhorn & Michael Lewis, the author of "Liar's Poker" and for you baseball fans "Moneyball". It comes in two pieces online 'The End of the Financial World as We Know It' and 'How to Repair a Broken Financial World' I'll post some excerpts below but these are two healthy sized pieces and if this type of thing is of interest to you, worth the full read. Since I'm so riled up about the[More...]

Woes On Wall Street Coincide With Gold Coin Rush

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:45:00 GMT

Woes on Wall Street coincide with gold coin rush Wednesday December 24, 12:50 pm ET By Sandy Shore, AP Business Writer US Mint labors to meet demand as investors buy up assets they can hold in their hands DENVER (AP) — Investors who have forsaken shaky financial markets for the safety of gold must feel a little bit like prospectors. As the worst recession in at least a generation spreads, so too does the clamor for gold bars and coins, assets less likely to go up on smoke like so many derivatives and asset-backed securities. “I’ve never seen a case where demand was so high and supply was so short,” said Chicago coin dealer Harlan Berk, who has been in the business 44 years. Spikes in demand for gold coins this year appear to run parallel with the mounting woes on Wall Street. In August, as the Federal Reserve pumped $62 billion into the[More...]

Dividend Stock Analysis: Bank of Montreal

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:10:00 GMT

Banks have always been one of the cornerstones for Dividend Based Investing, because they are dividend paying behemoths. They all like to increase their dividend payments regularly and they generally have some of the best yields to go along with these regular increases. Obviously, the banks have been hit pretty hard recently, and although I still don't believe this crisis is over, I thought I'd start doing some analysis on the banks, to see how they stack up in my fairly unforgiving dividend analysis. So, first of is a bank I have always favoured as a dividend pick. About the company: Here is Bank of Montreal's description of what they do, which can be found on their website [More...]