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“The amount of money being committed to corporate share buybacks lately has been impressive. ... More than 100 companies in the S&P have bought back more than 4% of their shares in the past year alone. The buying hasn’t been limited to just one or two industry groups either; it...
There has clearly been abnormal selling in many of the higher-quality income names in the market.
Companies in most industries do better as the economy improves. Consumers are freer with their spending, boosting earnings in consumer discretionary areas, and businesses order more inventory and spend more on services, benefitting everyone from manufacturers to tech companies. But one industry—transportation—is particularly well correlated to economic recoveries. Transportation companies benefit...
Hardly a week goes by without a story or two about the growth of algorithmic strategies or other purportedly nefarious market schemes.
Apple (AAPL), as most investors are aware, is now 40% off its high of last year which makes it a bargain in some investors’ books.
If you agree to let your investment rise or fall on the fortunes of a single stock, you lower your odds of picking a winner.
“The Southern Company (SO 44.26 NYSE – yield 4.60%)—Of Fortune Magazine’s ‘Most Admired Electric and Gas Utilities,’ The Southern Company has scored first place in financial soundness each of the last four years. Southern’s service area stretches across the states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida, where it serves 4.4...
“We are in a very interesting period in which poor economic data is actually viewed somewhat favorably by equity investors (as was the case following Monday’s PMI news) in that weak stats suggest that Ben Bernanke & Co. will delay the start of the tapering of its Quantitative Easing program,...
A few weeks ago, I wrote here about investing in master limited partnerships, or MLPs, and invited you to send in your questions about owning MLPs. (You can read the original article here if you missed it.) The tax issues surrounding these high-yield investments can get pretty complicated,...