The recession is the time to cut inventories. The recovery is the time to re-stock. First, though, you have to make sure that your vendors are up to the challenge. The Wall Street Journal recently ran an excellent front page story about Caterpillar …
Over the last couple of years we have seen companies fail to raise their dividend, cut their dividend and some even decided to stop paying their dividend. In some cases their financials did not warrant the change. One way to weed these out is to look f…
Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) reported fourth quarter earnings of 41 cents per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 28 cents per share. However, the company’s EPS declined 62.0% on a year-over-year basis.
US stocks tumbled on Wednesday on fears that China’s curbs on bank lending could upend a global economic recovery. IBM’s diappointing outlook and weaker commodity prices also pressurized stocks.
Caterpillar Inc (CAT), one of the world’s largest travel agencies, is expected to release its fourth quarter earnings on Wednesday, January 27, 2010. In the last three quarters ending September 2009, the company’s reported earnings exceeded the marke…
Honeywell International Inc is scheduled to report their December 2009 quarter results on Friday, January 29, 2010. In the last two quarters ending September 2009, the company bettered the street’s expectations but in March 2009 and December 2008 qua…
US stocks tumbled on Friday as a loss at JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s retail bank spooked investors. Weaker-than-expected consumer sentiment data also weighed upon stocks.[More….
US stocks finished mostly higher on Monday as commodity shares rallied on upbeat export data from China.[More...]
US stocks closed with gains on Friday as investors shrugged off weaker-than-expected jobs report. Major indexes finished in green as the outlook for corporate earnings lifted investor optimism about the vitality of an economic recovery.
Standard & Poor’s just reported that 2009 was the worst year for dividends, with the number of dividend increases falling by 36% to 1191. The number of companies slashing dividends rose by 631% to 804 issues.