Kimberly-Clark (KMB) manufactures and markets disposable consumer products. The company owns five brands that do over $1 billion per year in sales: Kleenex, Kotex, Huggies, Pull-Ups, and Scotts. The company sells its products in over 175 countries and has grown
November 27, 2014
Look for what you will get when you sacrifice a piece and make sure it’s worthwhile. Sometimes taking a big loss can actually help you make a big gain. Tax-loss harvesting is a similar tactic in investing. Listen to this
Blue Line 4 Week Average The market was expecting the weekly initial unemployment claims at 278,000 to 295,000 (consensus 286,000) vs the 313,000 reported. The more important (because of the volatility in the weekly reported claims and seasonality errors in
Buying and holding dividend stocks, over long periods of time, beats the market. Research proves it. First, dividend stocks as a group, outperform in bull and bear markets and beat the S&P 500, by 1.6% on average according to Ned
Technology companies can make our lives easier and even change the world. But just as often they can mess up. Spectacularly. And 2014 delivered ample proof that even smart people do stupid things. It was a year of extreme bad-boy
According to the latest figures from Eurostat, a shade over 10% of the European workforce is idle. The figure for the 18 nations which use the Euro is slightly higher, standing at 11.5% (both figures from September 2014). This equates
Defense major Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT – Analyst Report) received three contracts from the U.S. Department of Defense worth nearly $626.3 million. The largest among the three contracts is worth $492 million, awarded by the U.S. Navy to provide non-air vehicle spares, support equipment, Autonomic
The last ten years’ progress in biotechnology and medicine has outpaced the previous ten years significantly. The same thing is true of the ten years prior to that ten years. The next ten years, it’s safe to say, will see
Recently we posted the following article commenting on the impact of USD appreciation and dollar circulation among oil exporters, as well as how the collapsing price of oil is set to reverberate across the entire oil-exporting world, where sticky high
Afraid you won’t have enough to retire comfortably? You’re not alone, and a debt-fueled lifestyle is often a big part of the problem. As the 2014 EBRI Retirement Confidence Survey notes: Fifty-eight percent of workers and 44 percent of retirees
