HomeStreet Releases Investor Presentation
Filed under: Investing HomeStreet Releases Investor Presentation SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- HomeStreet, Inc. ("the Company") (NAS: HMST) today filed after hours a Securities and Exchange Act Form 8-K...
View ArticleGoogle Is Finally Drawing Blood Against Microsoft Office
Filed under: Investing The battle between Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps may be one of the most important conflicts for business. In a recent story on ZDNet, many of the alterations that Google...
View ArticlePeabody Energy Keeps Dividend Steady
Filed under: Investing Coal giant Peabody Energy announced yesterday its third-quarter dividend of $0.085 per share, the same rate it's paid since 2010. The board of directors said the quarterly...
View ArticleNow You're Buying Stocks -- Your Timing Couldn't Be Worse
Filed under: Investing This was predictable. As stocks hit all-time highs and bonds begin to fall, retail investors are buying stocks and selling bonds for the first time in years. This data from the...
View ArticleHere's What This $30 Billion Pension Fund Has Been Buying
Filed under: Investing Every quarter, many money managers have to disclose what they've bought and sold, via "13F" filings. Their latest moves can shine a bright light on smart stock picks. Today,...
View ArticleIs Coca-Cola Destined for Greatness?
Filed under: Investing Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown. The best stocks offer sustainable market-beating...
View ArticleWhy Outerwall Shares Fell Apart
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
View ArticleBlaming the Weather; Some Companies Can, Some Can't
Filed under: Investing In the following video, Fool contributor Matt Thalman discusses the idea of companies using the weather as an explanation of why they missed on quarterly results. Recently, we...
View ArticleWhy the Dow Still Won't Budge
Filed under: Investing The Dow Jones Industrial Average continued its ambivalence streak today, finishing up three points, or 0.02%, though shares were down by as much as 1% earlier in the day. This...
View Article2 Reasons Why I Think Zillow Is Great
Filed under: Investing In the following video, Fool contributor Matt Thalman gives two reasons why he loves Zillow and feels the company will only continue growing and strengthening in the coming...
View ArticleArthur J. Gallagher Keeps Dividend Steady
Filed under: Investing Insurance broker and risk management services firm Arthur J. Gallagher announced yesterday its third-quarter dividend of $0.35 per share, the same rate it's paid for the past two...
View ArticleRepublic Services Hikes Dividend 11%
Filed under: Investing Waste hauler Republic Services announced yesterday its third-quarter dividend of $0.26 per share, a near 11% increase in the payout made to investors last quarter of $0.235 per...
View ArticleING Keeps Dividend Steady
Filed under: Investing Financial services specialist ING U.S. announced yesterday its third-quarter dividend of $0.01 per share. This is the first dividend it's paid since suspending the payout; it has...
View ArticleONEOK Partners Increases Dividend
Filed under: Investing Midstream natural gas MLP ONEOK Partners announced yesterday its second-quarter distribution of $0.72 per unit, an increase of $0.005 from the $0.715 per unit it paid investors...
View ArticleAre You Ready to Give Facebook a Second Chance?
Filed under: Investing The world's greatest social network, Facebook played perfectly into what the term IPO really stands for -- It's Probably Overpriced. Understandably, the company had pressure to...
View ArticleOne of the Greatest Long-Term Investors of Our Time
Filed under: Investing Death and taxes. Those are the surefire things in life. Oh and Amazon.com's minuscule profits, too. Quarter in and quarter out, it seems like it's the same old story: Jeff Bezos...
View ArticleIs YouTube Google's Secret Weapon?
Filed under: Investing Lately, the media hubbub with Google has centered around the dynamic company's shiny Google Glass innovation, which has become nothing less than a popular-culture touchstone....
View ArticleWhy Are Consumers so Confident?
Filed under: Investing Consumers are more confident than they've been in six years despite an unemployment rate of 7.6%, and an economy that's growing at a snail's pace. Given the economic backdrop, it...
View Article5 of Last Week's Biggest Losers
Filed under: Investing There's never a shortage of losers in the stock market. Let's take a closer look at five of this past week's biggest sinkers. Company July 26 Weekly Loss Sequenom $3.22 30%...
View Article5 of Last Week's Biggest Winners
Filed under: Investing What's better than momentum? Mo' momentum. Let's take a closer look at five of this past week's biggest scorchers. Company July 26 Weekly Gain Himax Technologies $7.30 41%...
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