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S&P Dividend Aristocrats
Last month, I wrote an article on S&P 500 high dividend paying stocks. Over the weekend, Barron’s released a video with more explanations on the S&P dividend aristocrats.
End of Wall Street: Wall Street Journal Video Series
So what happened to the Wall Street? Where will it go from here?
Today, The Wall Street Journal released a 3-part video documentary series, End of Wall Street, with in-depth coverage of the financial crisis started in the summer of 2007. Following is the first part of the video, What Happened.
Weekend Linkage – February 3, 2008
Recap of the week
So January finally ended.I guess everybody is happy that the toughest January in years is over. The stock markets started the new year with a noise dive, with the Dow plunging nearly 500 points in the first five trading sessions. By the time when the index lost nearly 1000 points, the Fed [...]
Video: Reuters Business Recap for the Week of November 26, 2007
US equities were lifted last week by hints from top Federal Reserve officials that another rate cut could be coming in the next FOMC meeting in early December. Stock markets opened the last trading week of November on a down note with the Dow posted yet another triple-digit lose on Monday after the strong post-Thanksgiving [...]
Video: Reuters Business Recap for the Week of November 12, 2007
The stock markets were again under pressure last week after more bad investments were revealed by financial companies, which have dominated the headlines lately. The only bright spot last week was Wal-Mart which saw its shares up more than 8% in the past 5 trading sessions. Earning forecasts from other retailers such as JCPenny, Macy’s [...]
Video: Reuters Business Recap for the Week of November 5, 2007
Another tough week for stocks as the subprime mortgage pot continued to boil and more and more banks came out with big losses due to bad investments. After Merrill Lynch, Citi also ousted its chief executive last weekend, but that didn’t help its shares from slumping to the lowest level in more than 4 years. [...]
Video: Reuters Business Recap for the Week of October 29, 2007
It wasn’t a pretty start of a new month for the stock markets. One day after getting a boost from the Federal Reserve’s a quarter-point rate cut, stocks took a nose dive on Thursday after Exxon Mobile reported a loss in quarterly profit and CIBC issued warnings that Citigroup may cut its dividend. Though the [...]
Video: Reuters Business Recap for the Week of October 22, 2007
Stocks finished the trading week with a triple-digit gain of the Dow on Friday as strong profits report from software giant Microsoft lifted technology stocks and bullish forecast from the nation’s largest mortgage provider Countrywide boosted the financial sector. What happened in the middle of the week was more interesting. For each day from Tuesday [...]
Video: Reuters Business Recap for the Week of October 15, 2007
What a week!
The US stock markets headed nowhere but south as worries of a recession returned to the street. The earning season kicked into high gear last week, however the early reporters did bring investors much to cheer about. Big banks, including Citibank, Bank of America, and Wachovia, wrote down billions of dollars of [...]
Video: Reuters Business Recap for the Week of October 8, 2007
US stock markets continued their recovery from the summer slump last week and extended its winning streaks to 5 weeks as investors’ confidence got a boost from the minutes of the last Fed meeting which indicated the central bank is ready to take more actions should the economic conditions deteriorate. Meanwhile, the 0.6% gain in [...]
