by Jack Delaney
Investors are wanting more socially responsible investments.
Over the last two years, they have poured over $2 trillion into SRIs.
After analyzing the market, we found the three best that pay a dividend for long-term profits...
The Dow Jones today is off to a hot start after the Senate passed a 2018 federal budget yesterday…
Dow Jones futures are up 77 points in pre-market hours as the Senate's budget confirmation clears the way for a new tax cut bill.
The Dow Jones today is sliding in pre-trading hours after the latest jobs report showed the economy lost 33,000 jobs in September…
Dow Futures are down 18 points this morning after the U.S. lost jobs in a September for the first time in seven years.
Ultra-wealthy activist investors like Carl Icahn and Nelson Peltz are (in)famous for spending millions – often billions – on huge chunks of stock in attempts to upend corporate boards.
It's a move Oliver Stone's legendary "two-bit pirate and greenmailer" character, Gordon Gekko, called "getting into a company at a 45-degree angle."
They aim to grab seats on the board and use that powerful influence to break up and kill companies, or fix what they see as costly waste, or to steer corporate governance in a different, potentially more profitable, direction.
Still, investors (maybe with Gordon Gekko foremost on their minds) can panic when they spot activist investors circling shareholder meetings. It causes them to unload stocks – and play right into the activists' hands.
What's more, as we first noted in 2015, these players are now setting their sights on old, established American companies – income stocks your grandparents owned – that aren't even close to failing, like General Electric Co.
Gerri Willis, of FOX Business Network's "Making Money," wanted to know what, if anything, investors have to be afraid of, especially now that it's come to light Trian Partners' Nelson Peltz is aggressively seeking a seat on the board of Procter & Gamble Co. PG is a widely owned, $227 billion, 180-year-old "dividend king" that's hiked its payout for more than 50 straight years.
She asked our Technical Trading Specialist, D.R. Barton, Jr., what Peltz and other activist investors might really be up to coming after these popular, stable stocks.
by Stephen Mack
Procter & Gamble became the largest ever target of a proxy fight when activist investor Nelson Peltz announced his campaign for a seat on the board. What does that mean for P&G stock? Money Morning Technical Trading Specialist D.R. Barton, Jr., joins FOX Business Network to weigh in.
by Jack Delaney
Owning shares of dividend aristocrats is a great way to build wealth over time because of compounding interest.
In fact, compounding interest is one of the ways in which Warren Buffett made his fortune.
The Dow Jones news today features stocks pushing higher as investors continue to celebrate a string of positive earnings reports.
A busy day of earnings reports will keep investors focused on corporate performance and less interested in a potential government shutdown later this week.
The Dow Jones news today focuses on another triple-digit gain after new economic data helped propel stocks higher.
Financial stocks led the way on increasing optimism about President Donald Trump's economic agenda.
Let's look at the numbers from Wednesday for the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq...
The Dow Jones Industrial Average today climbed as President Donald Trump was sworn into office.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average today was rising on the first day of President-elect Donald Trump's term in office.
On Thursday, the Dow slipped 72 points after another busy day of earnings reports, economic data, and speculation on Capitol Hill over the incoming Trump administration's cabinet picks.
