DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE

• Real assets, Real opportunities?

  By Vikki Geary - March 18, 2013 | Tickers: ^DJI, ^FTSE, ^GSPC

  Credit Suisse’s 2013 Yearbook paints the picture of an investment landscape that has changed beyond recognition over the past 50 years.

  Stocks, bonds and cash deposits treated our parents’ and grandparents’ generations very kindly indeed. Since 1950, the annualised real return on world equities was 6.8%; from 1980, it was 6.4%. For investors fortunate enough to be retiring today, equities have provided for many happy years of more »

• Three Dow Companies with Plenty of Upside Room

  By Andrés Cardenal - March 13, 2013 | Tickers: CAT, ^DJI, IBM, DIS

  Everybody is talking about the fact that the Dow Jones has finally made new historical highs this week, and investors are wondering if the markets have enough fuel in the tank for further increases or if we are due for a pullback at this stage. This is an interesting issue to discuss, but trying to time the markets is in most cases a waste of time, it just can't more »

• The 3 Reasons the Dow Will Move Higher (and the Best Stocks to Buy on Dips)

  By Jay Jenkins - March 12, 2013 | Tickers: KO, ^DJI, GE, IBM

  Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached a new all-time nominal high. Sign of an apocalypse? Not likely. Sign that the economy is finally healed? Not really. Until the employment picture returns to pre-Great Recession levels, American's will still feel pain in their day to day lives.

  But from a purely investing standpoint, there are three key macro data points that point toward continued strength broadly across the more »

• From Shares to 15 Times Leverage: Bank of America

  By Alexander MacLennan - March 12, 2013 | Tickers: BAC, BAC-BW, BAC-AW, ^DJI

  After collapsing in value during the recession, Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has been given a front row seat to the financial meltdown. But while BofA has managed to recover some lost ground, shares still have lagged the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) as the index hit a new record high. With a rebuilding housing market, settlement of many outstanding lawsuits, and the possibility of a stronger economy to more »

• North Korea's Threats Could Jump The Economy

  By Dominic Milan - March 8, 2013 | Tickers: ^DJI, ^IXIC, SWHC

  Although the morality of another war is wrong and the majority would vote against it. War does bring a short term economic growth. If things do not shape up quick we could be seeing another war followed by a booming economy and then another small crash. North Korea does not pose any real threat to our nation as a whole, but it is enough to scare the public into buying more »

• The Truth Behind the Dow's New All-Time High

  By Andrew Baguley - March 6, 2013 | Tickers: CI, ^DJI, LOW, Z

  Investors cheered when the Dow Jones Industrial Average recently hit a new all-time high. But in their celebration, they may have forgotten the five-and-a half-year gap since the Dow's previous high on Oct. 9, 2007 -- and the inevitable inflation that comes with time. When you adjust for inflation, the Dow won't truly hit a new peak until it crosses 15,731.  However, I don't think we get more »

• New all time high? Don't be Fooled!

  By Andrew Baguley - March 6, 2013 | Tickers: BAC, ^DJI, LVS, SBUX

  Hurry! Hurry! Read all about it. The the DJIA hits a new all time high...right? Wrong! It seems that people have forgotten the five and a half year gap in between and more importantly the inevitable inflation that comes with time.  Take a day that I remember very well on October 9th 2007, this was my first year in the market and I owned consumer discretionary stocks, following Grandpa more »

• Investing: It's Like Riding a Bike

  By Eden Afriat - January 28, 2013 | Tickers: AGNC, KO, ^DJI, VZ

  Is our money safe in the stock market? This is the question that many are asking as the market recovers from the recent financial crisis. Regardless of the cause, the recent recession resulted in a loss in many portfolios.   

  It is for the disheartened investor that I write today. I argue that the time to invest is during an economic recovery. Let’s compare a bicycle to the financial market more »

• 1937 and 2013: Odd Similarities

  By Ariel Prince - January 28, 2013 | Tickers: ^DJI

  The year 1937 still resonates eeriely with many of us. We remember the images of tremendous poverty and slum housing from our college history courses. We think back to the lecture our nutty Economics professor gave about low GDP rates in the late 1930's.

  What we don't realize is that 2013 is already starting to resemble the negative aspects of 1937.

  1937 consisted of a significant market drop more »

• A Brighter Outlook for this Aluminum Giant

  By Piyanka Agarwal - January 22, 2013 | Tickers: AA, ACH, ^DJI, RIO

  The aluminum giant Alcoa (NYSE: AA) seems to have had an official kick start with its quarterly results announced last week.  The in-line profits, and once again the better-than-expected revenue, seemed to have an impact on the investors. Overall, the company’s outlook for the fiscal year were raised with the global aluminum demand growth up to 7%. The company, which is a Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) component more »

• Wal-Mart Skids Past Dow Peers

  By Gerelyn Terzo - August 28, 2012 | Tickers: COST, ^DJI, GOOG, TGT, WMT

  I went to college in the southeast (Campbell University in North Carolina) in the early nineties. As far as I was concerned, it was the 'deep south.' My college town was Buies Creek, which at the time had a mere one stoplight and introduced me to the likes of wirly gigs and Krispy Kreme donuts. To keep our sanity and to our shelves stocked, those of us with cars used more »

• Apple, LinkedIn...It's Time to Split!

  By Tedra DeSue - August 8, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, CSCO, ^DJI, FB, GOOG, HPQ, INTC, LNKD, MSFT, TRV

  Now is the time for these two high performing tech companies to consider splitting their stocks.

• 13000 & November: A Tail of Two Company's

  By Eric Engle - August 5, 2012 | Tickers: ^DJI, GE, MET

  Writing about stocks and markets is often like writing about sports and leagues: one sees a lot of flurrious activity, yet no real content. It's as if investing authors are more interested in massaging the crowd than in reaching to substance.

  One principle value investors know is to look at the fundamentals. That's a sell order in case you need a playbook.
  Don't buy a business which more »

• Bet with Bernanke: The House Always Wins

  By Jonathan Yates - July 6, 2012 | Tickers: ^DJI, TLT, UUP, SPY, DIA

  Without question, the most significant development for the global economy from The Great Recession has been the emergence of the Federal Reserve under Ben Bernanke as the uber market maker of all time.  Market makers profit by matching buyers and sellers.  It is a very lucrative role as market makers, in addition to making a commission, are also positioned to know who is buying and who is selling at exactly more »

• In Search of New Ideas

  By Stephen Benz - June 12, 2012 | Tickers: CRR, ^DJI, RGR |

  Investors who are new to the game face a serious challenge right from the start.  There are over 5,000 companies on just the NYSE and NASDAQ, and only a small fraction of them are big name companies a typical investor would be familiar with. 

  To make matters worse, the primary source of investing ideas for the individual investor, the financial media, focuses primarily on large cap companies or popular more »