Boring Market

You only have three options in the stock market; buy, hold or sell. What will you do in this current market?
Nancy Trejos, a writer from The Washington Post, explores what you should do When You’re Tied Up in a Down Market. After reading this article a few times I have concluded that neither she nor […]

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Oil
Crude oil prices have more then doubled in the past year, and we have all felt this increase at the pump. Financial pundits report the same story over and over again with our dependence on oil, prices reaching new high records and alternative energy. Five dollar, six dollar a gallon gas are the shock tactic […]

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Whether or not a recession is looming, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) shows no sign of slowing down and still outperforms when it comes to selling Macs, iPods and iPhones.
Apple released earnings yesterday, while beating analyst’s expectations by posting a 36 percent rise in quarterly profit, and their sales really shined through. Apple sold 2.29 million […]

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Coca-Cola proved to be “recession-proof” in our unstable economic times by reporting a nineteen percent gain in first-quarter profit. Their strong international sales carried them through and caused the stock to remain stable.
The Coca-Cola Company is a pillar in the consumer goods sector. Their heritage and legacy along with their defensive approach to this market […]

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The Coca-Cola Company is a great company in unstable economic times because they are a global consumer brand with a diverse set of products. Their stock price holds steady with an ever increasing dividend. They know expansion is a worldwide strategy, instead of over-saturating occupied domestic turf. They buy successful brands such as […]

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Berkshire Hathaway has one of the, if not, the highest priced shares of stock (in dollars not value) selling at a staggering $139,000. This is partly due to the third richest man in the world, Warren Buffett, commitment never to split the stock. Buffett hopes that, “Berkshire’s shareholders think of themselves as partners in the […]

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Anyone who has read the newspaper, turned on a television or surfed the web in the last year has heard about our economy and the potential state that it is in. The same gloomy pundits report about the same stories all which are surrounding the infamous “R” word, Recession. I say enough is enough. The […]

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Starbucks has had a rough year with a steady decline of its stock and the media’s eye closely watching its every move. Some analysts are suggesting Starbucks is settling at a plateau with its heavy growth behind them, I on the other hand think its best days are ahead and here is five very […]

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“Now you see my point when buying stocks. We can’t predict when the markets will price our $65 billion companies at just $50 billion. When they do, we’ll jump on them. Will we buy at the absolute bottom? Probably not. Still, if McDonald’s — the $65 billion company — is a good buy for […]

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With the breaking news of ‘Starbucks’ Schultz returns to CEO post, Donald out’ some will wonder if this is the breaking point for Starbucks to turning around there downward decline in stock price over the past year. This article even reports that Starbucks plans to ‘slow the pace of its U.S. store growth to […]

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