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Should We Reconsider AT&T?

By Pamela Kaval - April 29, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, T, S, VZ, VOD

When you contemplate buying shares in a stock, there are many things to evaluate, including the company’s management, competition, and cash flow, to name a few. We here at the Fool primarily keep our stocks for the long haul; we buy and hold (we do other things too, but buying and holding shares is pretty important to our long term thinking). However, when a business changes for the worse more »
Deepwater Horizon Testimony Is Making Shareholders Wary of Next Week’s Earnings

By Pamela Kaval - February 27, 2013 | Tickers: BP, CVX, HAL, NBR, RIG

Transocean (NYSE: RIG) will be coming out with their earnings report next week. Unfortunately for the company, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, which also happens to be the petroleum industry’s largest “accidental” marine oil spill in history, is in the forefront again.

A new trial has recently begun (Feb. 26, 2013) in New Orleans. Supervisors from Transocean and BP (NYSE: BP more »)
Prediction: 6-19% Yield in DJIA Stocks in 2013

By Pamela Kaval - January 4, 2013 | Tickers: KO, GE, HPQ, HD, WMT, DIS

The primary goal of the DJIA is to provide people with a clear view of trends in the U.S. stock market. So what can we anticipate this year, if anything, with DJIA (Dow Jones Industrial Average) stocks?

If you have been following the stock market for a while, you may have already concluded that the historical data is typically not very revealing. Let’s see if the DJIA data more »
5 Solid Telecom Investments

By Pamela Kaval - September 21, 2012 | Tickers: AMX, T, CMGE, VZ, VOD

Telecommunications has been around for as long as people have existed. Growing up in New Jersey, I remember the fire station 3 blocks from my house blowing air horns every day to let you know it was 12 noon and that the system was working, just in case they needed to warn us of an emergency. I also remember that it used to cost a lot of money to call more »
The Angel or the Devil? Who Do You Choose?

By Pamela Kaval - August 14, 2012 | Tickers: BP, CVX, COP, XOM, RDS-A

I’m sure you have all seen this at least once in your lives in a TV show, movie or cartoon: someone is trying to decide what to do and there is an angel version of themselves on one shoulder saying “no, don’t do it” and the devil version of themselves on the other shoulder saying “you should do it, it will be fun.” I feel like I am more »
Is Weekly Lottery Money Really a Guaranteed Million?

By Pamela Kaval - August 9, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, BRK-A, CACI, CBB, FARM

When it comes to retirement and stock market investing, most people that I know pick a plan from their employer’s 401K program, get automatic deductions from their paycheck, and don’t really think about it anymore. At the same time, many of these same people actively participate in buying lottery tickets; some even spend a lot of time choosing their “winning numbers.”

The reason I bring this up is more »
92%+ Chance of an Increase in the Stock Market with Democrats in Office

By Pamela Kaval - August 2, 2012 | Tickers: DD, XOM, GE, PG, UTX

I recently did a blog on presidential election years and the stock market (Myth Busters: Stock Markets in Presidential Election Years), but what I found was not exciting. A brief summary of the data from 1900 to 2011 showed that the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) went up 68% of the time in an election year; that breaks down further into an increase of 75% of the time when Republicans more »
Myth Busters: Stock Market Expectations in Presidential Election Years

By Pamela Kaval - July 18, 2012 | Tickers: KO, WFM

Here we are again in another U.S. Presidential election year. And in every presidential election year, I hear two basic things: (1) it is an election year, so stocks will go up; and (2) Democrats are in, so stocks will go down (and the converse: Republicans are in, so stocks will go up). Since I have never seen any real long term data to back up any of these more »