All eyes are on the Fed. When will it begin to raise interest rates? Some say next summer. Others think sooner, in the first quarter of next year. A few Fed governors insist that will be too late, that the Fed needs to act before year-end. Analysts hoped some hints could be gleaned by reading between the lines of Fed Chair Yellen’s speech in Jackson Hole on Friday morning, or perhaps from nuances in her tone of voice. That is how much investors, who despised the Fed ...
If you get stuck paying out huge amounts to anyone, you want to ease the burden by writing it off. Bank of America may be smarting over the historic $17 billion legal settlement it reached over soured mortgage securities. Still, it should be mollified that it’s getting a hefty tax write-off. How, you might ask? It got around the Department of Jusitce’s recent policy of nixing tax deductions. See DOJ Allows Bank of America to Deduct $12 Billion of $17 Billion Settlement. Not everyone ...
Blake is going out on a high note. In the second quarter Home Depot handily beat Wall Street expectations and even raised its full-year earnings guidance. More...
The most recent short interest data has just been released by the NASDAQ for the 07/31/2014 settlement date, and we here at Dividend Channel have sifted through this fresh data and screened out these five S&P 500 stocks. A metric we find particularly useful when comparing short interest data is the “days to cover” metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares traded. For the five stocks below, we have detected a notable change in days to cover, ...
The often choppy summer months and the thick of earnings season are often a tough time for investors and traders. They struggle to decide whether to take any action before their stocks report earnings. Deciding when to sell is a difficult decision for most traders and investors. Beginning traders often go through a vicious cycle. They often start by selling too late as they liquidate on weakness and give up too much of their profits. On the next trade they tend to over compensate ...