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15 Hot Dividend Increases

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:10:11 GMT

Dividends from a quality, well-diversified portfolio are much more predictable than capital gains and best of all, they are passive.[More...]

Another Aristocrat Raising Distributions

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:47:24 GMT

With the market up strongly year to date after hitting a multi year bottom in March, it is hard for investors to get excited about current dividend yields of 3%-4%.[More...]

Seven Dividend Elites: Ko, CL, XOM, PPG, LLY, SWK, PG

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:08:09 GMT

"While companies have been cutting dividends at an historic pace over the last 24 months, the fact is that there are still quality companies with long histories of paying dividends represent good long-term investments," says Chuck Carlson.[More...]

Seeds Of A Recovery?

Fri, 01 May 2009 19:42:46 GMT

The initial first-quarter GDP reported was greeted with a great amount of fanfare, despite a terrible headline number. Though the economy contracted at a 6.1% pace - marking the first time we have booked back to back quarters of down 6% or more since the end of WWII - some of the details in the report showed reasons for optimism. As an investor, I realize that you are less concerned with the details that economists seemingly over-analyze and more concerned with what the report means to your portfolio. So, today, I'm going to show you where some of the investment opportunities and risks lie in the current environment. Consumers Opened Their Wallets The biggest positive surprise in the report was that Personal Consumption Expenditures ("PCE") actually contributed 1.50 points to[More...]

Dividend Elites And A Bet On Becton Dickenson (NYSE: BDX)

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:02:00 GMT

At a time when it seems every dividend announcement is bad news, there are still companies that have maintained a history of increasing dividends, according to Chuck Carlson.[More...]

Recession Shrinks U.S. Trade Deficit for Fifth Straight Month

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:39:00 GMT

By Don Miller Associate Editor Money Morning The U.S trade deficit fell to the lowest level in nearly six years in December as the recession continued to depress domestic need for imports... Money Morning is here to help investors profit handsomely on this seismic shift in the global economy. Money moves markets. But Money Morning lets you move first. [More...]

Not A Week For The Feint of Heart

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:07:00 GMT

The economic calendar and earnings reports are going to make this week very interesting. On the economic calendar side, there are numerous important reports coming out, most are indicated to be lower than last month again. On the earnings report side, the earnings season kicks off this week, which means more potential disappointment. With a week full of bad news, will the market simply become numb, and not react much on each individual piece of bad news? Or will the momentum build with every missed earnings estimate or disappointing economic report? Time will tell, but don't expect much good news this week. The December retail sales report comes out Wednesday, and based on some reports last week, this report will probably come in even lower than expected. When almighty WalMart reports a significant slowdown in sales, the entire industry must be getting clobbered. I would expect this report to show at least a two-percent decline, possibly doubling the[More...]

Weekly Review (01-05-2009 to 01-09-2009)

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:28:47 GMT

US stocks finished with substantial weekly losses as investors remained concerned about vanishing jobs and worsening corporare profit outlook.[More...]

Goodrich Boosts Qtr. Dividend By 11% And Other Increases

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:48:00 GMT

A vision is taking the time to think of (anticipate) in detail what the future will bring. You would need to consider future earnings, savings and economic issues such as inflation. Then based on what you foresee in the future, you[More...]

Three Notable Dividend Increases Over The Past Week

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:04:00 GMT

Ever since Cramer went on the Today Show and advised investors with shorter term goals to sell stocks if they planned to hold for less than five years, he’s been mostly been ostracized in the news. I do believe however that this was a useful piece of advice for anyone that needs the money in less than half a decade from now. Jim Cramer gave another good piece of advice last week when he advised investors who are scared from the enormous volatility in the stock markets to simply purchase dividend paying stocks. The reasoning behind that is that no matter what the daily range of the S&P 500 is, dividend stocks should still be viewed as a business governed by fundamentals and not some sort of fancy lottery tickets. No matter how volatile your stocks are, as long as they are fundamentally sound and have a business model that supports increasing their[More...]

Local Equities Break Seven-Month Winning Streak

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:06:00 GMT

Oct. 31--With the market's poor final trading day of the month, Trib 30 stocks in October broke a seven-month string of increases going back to March.
Losers buried gainers in October by two-to-one, with 21 losing stocks to nine gainers.
The national index literally marked time in October, closing at 9,713 about one point off September's close.

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15 Hot Dividend Increases

Another Aristocrat Raising Distributions

Seven Dividend Elites: Ko, CL, XOM, PPG, LLY, SWK, PG

Seeds Of A Recovery?

Dividend Elites And A Bet On Becton Dickenson (NYSE: BDX)

Recession Shrinks U.S. Trade Deficit for Fifth Straight Month

Not A Week For The Feint of Heart

Weekly Review (01-05-2009 to 01-09-2009)

Goodrich Boosts Qtr. Dividend By 11% And Other Increases

Three Notable Dividend Increases Over The Past Week

Local Equities Break Seven-Month Winning Streak

Loan Woes, FDIC Costs a Double Whammy for Banks

Utility Customers Vent About Increase We Energies Proposal, Surcharge Draw Concerns

Utility Customers Vent About Increase: We Energies Proposal, Surcharge Draw Concerns

PPG Earnings Up 36 Percent

Oil Boom: Pittsburgh Was Nation's First Petroleum Capital

Security Powers Up in Alle-Kiski Valley

Security Powers Up in Alle-Kiski Valley

EDITORIAL: Tax Break for the Bigs

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Heard Off the Street Column

StockPreacher.Com Issues Trading Outlook for Georgia Gulf Corp.

PPG Announces Two Corporate Appointments

PPG Directors Announce Dividend of 53 Cents Per Share

PPG Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

PPG to Announce Second Quarter 2009 Results July 16

Olin Prepares to Begin Demolition of Former Chlorine Unit in Louisiana, an Industrial Info News Alert

PPG Honors Six Excellent Suppliers

PPG Aerospace Begins Use of Chromate-Free Moisture Seal on Windshields

PPG Aerospace Resumes Full Production of Canopy Transparencies for F-16 Fighter

PPG Aerospace Sees Growth in Customized Sealant Solutions

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