Many Ford Motor (NYSE:F) bulls can’t understand why the stock is down 10% year to date especially when you consider the bumper quarters this company has enjoyed. Last quarter the company reported net income of $1.9 billion or EPS before special items of $0.45. In the same quarter 12 months ago, the company posted net income of $833 million which again…
This year, we wrote our second annual “5 Stocks on Santa’s Shit List”. As we took a moment to review last year’s [email protected]@@ list, we realized that a couple of last year’s candidates completely killed it this year. So if we’re going to go all snarky when they’re sucking it up, it’s only fair to…
With Nattie down 6% in early trading, the most in 2 months, pressing to new record lows… OilPrice.com’s Nick Cunningham warns, while the glut in oil is expected to continue for the next year or so before balancing in late 2016, the pain for liquefied natural gas (LNG) could be just beginning… Building LNG export terminals is…
The Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday will dominate the economic calendar for this week. – Continued sell-offs in high-yield bonds and commodities indicate that all may not be well in the global economy, and a rate hike from the Fed may make this situation worse. – After the FOMC held rates in September, global markets sold off….
Chevron (CVX) stock currently has a dividend yield of nearly 5%. When I last analyzed Chevron in July, I though Chevron was undervalued. Since that time, the stock has fallen an additional 8.4%… Now is one of the best times to buy Chevron stock since the mid 1990’s. The image below shows the company’s historical dividend yield. …
The Dreyfus Corporation – a segment of BNY Mellon – was founded in 1951 and currently has $286 billion of assets under management allocated across a wide range of equity and fixed-income mutual funds. Meanwhile, established in 1784 by Alexander Hamilton, BNY Mellon currently has nearly $1.6 trillion assets under management invested throughout the globe….
2015 is drawing to a close and financial investors are trying to understand past global dynamics in order to move forward into 2016. Investors expected a good year for euro zone stocks in 2015 looking forward to European Central Bank president Mario Draghi and a massive stimulus plan to draw good returns from the region. By mid-year,…
Despite a weak start, the holiday season gained a firmer footing. This is especially true given the modest retail sales data for November and an improved consumer sentiment data for December. After months of sluggish spending, retail sales rose a modest 0.2% in November, representing the largest increase since July. Meanwhile, consumer confidence improved for…
Today Atara Biotherapeutics (ATRA) shares plunged by 37% after the company reported that its phase 2 trial failed to produce statistically significant results. The trial was a proof of concept phase 2 study to test the effects of the PINTA 745 molecule. More specifically the trial enrolled protein energy wasting — PEW — patients that…
