The Dow Jones Industrials again eked out another record close, finishing higher by five points and making it seven days in a row that the average has finished at new all-time...
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March 13 - News
If you are looking for technology stocks to quench your thirst for stable and possibly increasing streams of dividend income, you've arrived at the right article.
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March 13 - News
It's a story of patience and attention to detail, where small, short-term differences add up to massive divergence over decades.
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March 13 - News
Boston Beer Co Inc (NYSE:SAM) recently announced that it will offer its signature beer, Sam Adams Boston Lager, in a can for the first time this summer.
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March 13 - News
The market's crawling back up toward its record highs today, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI) is just above breakeven, having picked up ...
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March 13 - News
"In over-the-counter trading, Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) rose $7, to $28, on its first day of trading." Where were you on March 13, 1986, when one of the greatest IPOs...
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March 13 - News
I have been writing a lot about Warren Buffett.
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March 13 - Hedge Funds
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up slightly following a better-than-expected retail sales report. As of 1:15 p.m. EDT the Dow was up 7 points, or 0.05%, to 14,475.
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March 13 - News
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) will announce plans for its cash hoard next month, according to Howard Ward, chief investment officer at investment firm Gamco.
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March 13 - News
Everybody is talking about the fact that the Dow Jones has finally made new historical highs recently, and investors are wondering if the markets have enough fuel in the tank ...
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March 13 - News
For the seventh straight trading session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average managed to close higher, and for the fifth straight day, the index set a new record closing price.
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March 11 - News
For years, economists, policymakers, and financial analysts have warned that rock-bottom interest rates would have to start rising someday.
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March 11 - News
There has never been a technology that took over our lives like smartphones. After International Business Machines Corp.
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March 11 - News
In the following video, Fool senior technology analyst Eric Bleeker looks at a question that could seem ludicrous given Berkshire Hathaway's traditional aversion to technology...
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March 11 - News
One of the most important traits that investors look for in a stock these days is whether it pays a healthy dividend.
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March 11 - News
The Nasdaq Composite (INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC) reached its all-time high on March 10, 2000, only a day after breaking the 5,000-point barrier.
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March 11 - News
After weeks of rumors, Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) announced a plan to go private in a $24.4 billion buyout last month.
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March 10 - News
I've said it before and I'll say it again, valuation will always matter.
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March 8 - News
International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM), which had worked hard to build formidable products and services in cloud and analytics, had suddenly found itself inadequate...
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March 8 - News
In case you haven’t heard, the Dow Jones Industrial Average waltzed to a record high March 5, crushing the old high of 14,164.53 hit on Oct 9, 2007.
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March 7 - News
Buffett's folksy easy-as-pie investing image doesn't quite jibe with the usurious deals he's wrung from the likes of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), Goldman Sachs Group, ...
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March 7 - Hedge Funds
In his highly anticipated letter to shareholders, the Oracle of Omaha drops little gems for his readers. This year the Chairman ofBerkshire Hathaway Inc.
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March 7 - Hedge Funds
The Dow Jones Industrial Average took the subprime crisis hard in 2008. The index had been on an absolute tear, setting all-time highs nearly every day in 2005 through 2007.
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March 7 - News
Steve Jobs once said, "A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them." Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has always innovated on this premise.
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March 6 - News
Okay, Okay! Another ‘Warren Buffett buys this, Buffett buys that’ article.
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March 6 - Hedge Funds
The Motley Fool recently sifted through thousands of publicly traded companies to identify the 25 Best Stocks in America.
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March 6 - News
As the Dow Jones Industrials soar past their previous record high in today's session, it's important to have a longer-term perspective on the market's performance.
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March 5 - News
Up to this point, the cloud market has been dominated by proprietary systems, mostly that of Amazon.com, Inc.
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March 5 - News
Mommy blogs are all a-twitter, and twitter is all a-flutter about the Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) internal memo ordering telecommuters back to the office.
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March 5 - News
It may seem improbable that a $24.1 billion year-over-year profit would be called “subpar,” but that is exactly what Warren Buffett lamented in his 2012 annual Berkshire Hathaway...
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March 4 - Hedge Funds
In a previous post, I wrote about graphene, with an emphasis on its related patents -- specifically which companies and countries held the most.
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March 4 - News
There are signs of progress for Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) in its latest quarter, indicating that turnaround efforts are running ahead of schedule.
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March 4 - News
One thing's for sure: You'll never discover truly great investments unless you actively look for them.
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February 26 - News
Can the third time finally be the charm for webOS? The star-crossed operating system has now seen two commercial failures under two separate corporate umbrellas.
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February 26 - News
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has been struggling to prove to the market that it still has the Steve Jobs magic, even without Steve Jobs around.
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February 25 - News
In a sea of highly leveraged balance sheets, companies that are loaded to the gills with cash are definitely intriguing investments.
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February 25 - News
The Federal Reserve has taken unprecedented action over the past five years to try to cushion the blow from the financial crisis and ensuing market meltdown on the overall economy...
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February 25 - News
Not much was expected ahead of Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ)'s fiscal Q1 earnings report.
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February 24 - News
David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital is going after the iconic tech company Apple Inc.
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February 23 - Hedge Funds
Some days when the Dow Jones Industrial Average hits triple-digit gains, stocks across the board lift the index higher with a collective rise -- but not today.
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February 22 - News
Although corporate makeovers are frequent on Wall Street, they tend to attract quite a bit of skepticism. International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) comes to mind.
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February 22 - News
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) investors are getting restless.
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February 22 - News
Just two weeks after Michael Dell and a group of investors decided it was time to take the company private for $24.4 billion, Dell Inc.
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February 21 - News
It hasn't been a great couple of months for investors of EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC).
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February 21 - News
Winter's chill lingers in many parts of the U.S., but spring's right around the corner.
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February 20 - News
Over the past three months, shares of NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP) are up almost 40% since reaching a low of $26.26.
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February 19 - News
Investors have been hoarding cash since the 2008 crisis. In Jan.
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February 19 - News
It’s worth taking the time to look closely at Nice Systems Ltd (ADR) (NASDAQ:NICE)'s latest results because I think the market made an erroneous knee jerk reaction in marking...
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February 18 - News
Given today's fast-paced trading environment where the average holding period for any given stock is less than four months (by some reckonings), it might seem crazy to look for...
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February 15 - News
