Intel Corporation (INTC)—the world’s largest maker of semiconductors—finally rejoined the ranks of dividend raisers after a longhiatus. Starting in the first quarter of 2015, INTC will pay a $0.24 quarterly dividend, up from the $0.225 dividend it has paid since August of
December 1, 2014
As you know the Swiss gold referendum was defeated this Sunday, along with all the other initiatives issues like tax reform and immigration. The metals bears were licking their chops and counting their chickens, and gold and silver both opened sharply
“Davidson” submits: Oil (USO) (OIL) has been much in the news. Falling prices have resulted in a good number of ‘Collapsing Economy’ predictions. A large number of analysts, too many to count, indicate that US oil production is the reason
Retail sales during the four day Thanksgiving weekend were down a whopping 11 percent from last year. This is a “make or break” time of the year for many retailers, and if things don’t turn around during the coming weeks
Past performance does not guarantee future performance, as they say, but Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT, editor and publisher of The Daily Gold Premium, is persuaded that the bottom in gold is no more than a couple of months away. And after that, look
The annual Las Vegas Blackhat security conference draws great attention from the media as the showpiece for trendy cyber security topics. From its inception in 1997, Blackhat has grown into a global conference series with additional stops in Abu Dhabi,
While we have focused on the decoupling between US equity markets and their high-yield credit and US Treasury yield peers, today is perhaps most notably for the widening seen in investment-grade credit markets – the most in 2 months – as oil-complex
Stocks were slumping today from the open, with (AAPL) having taken a dive, and a few of the major indices with it. There was no particular reason for this fundamentally. My own theory was that the funds were painting the
(Photo Credit: Zona Retiro) Wednesday – Abercrombie & Fitch Revenue has slid at Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) in 6 consecutive quarters and management is taking drastic action to get the brand back in gear. In August Abercrombie announced that it will
Black Friday was ugly. Early estimates show Black Friday sales down 11% over last year’s numbers. That’s a bad sign, though it remains to be seen whether this is a true case of retail weakness or merely a sign that
