Spilled Milk
Today, WhiteWave Foods ($WWAV) made its public debut on the New York Stock Exchange. Although the stock’s opening hours saw little follow-thru from in its initial pricing, the sponsors of the stock...
View ArticleWill the Fiscal Cliff Hurt Stock Returns?
Merrill Lynch conducted a survey in mid-October of 253 fund managers who invest some $681 million for clients, and 42% listed the upcoming fiscal cliff as the biggest risk to their investments (up from...
View ArticleOld Dogs
Thanks to the Investing Channel, here is a list of this year’s Dogs of the Dow. The strategy popularized by Michael B. O’Higgins in 1991 and represents the top 10 dividend yielding stocks in the Dow...
View ArticleComparitive Returns
2012 was an interesting year for investors. Looking back every year at the prognostications, one can only conclude that even the best investment forecasts are often a crapshoot. On January 1, 2012,...
View ArticleThree Days Past the Unthinkable
Solvency should be a simple financial concept: if your assets are worth more than your liabilities, you are solvent; if not, you are in danger of bankruptcy. But on the afternoon of Friday, September...
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