Consumer staples have slipped from their highs, but some have been unfairly swept under the rug. In 2022, staples weren’t immune to market turmoil, but they were safer than many other sectors: Consume...
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The Thrill Is Gone at Procter & Gamble: Trade These 2 Stocks Instead
On Thursday morning, consumer staples giant Procter & Gamble (PG) released the firm’s fiscal second quarter financial results. For the three month period ended December 31st, Procter & G...
Citigroup, Target, Lennar, and 2 More Companies Keeping Their Dividends Steady
PPL, a utility based in Allentown, Pa., said this week that it plans to raise its next quarterly dividend by 7%. It was an otherwise light stretch for such announcements among large U.S. companies. PP...
For All His Criticisms of Disney, Peltz and Iger Probably Agree: Streaming Has to Be Fixed
“Great news: Nelson Peltz made a slide deck about me,” said no CEO ever. But maybe Walt Disney Bob Iger had mixed feelings about the 35-pager that dropped this past week. One one hand, it says that he...
These 3 Sectors Have Had a Good Run. They Still Look Strong for 2023.
Yes, the stock market can always get worse—and that means three of this year’s best-performing sectors could continue to outperform in 2023. After a punishing 2022, Wall Street isn’t expecting the sit...
A Look At Some Of The Earnings Coming The Week Of October 17
Businessman trading online stock market on teblet screen, digital investment concept getty After a bit of a hiatus, the week’s coming earnings are once again back on my radar. As we head into this wee...
A Recession Is Coming. These Are the Stocks to Hunker Down In.
Eli Salzmann loves nothing better than finding a company that’s a “dog of a stock with no momentum” but on the verge of better days. At its core, that is what value investing is all about. Over the co...
Auto Makers Expect Car Sales to Defy Economic Gloom
Listen to article (2 minutes) Even as consumer spending cools, one place buyers continue to splurge is at the car dealership. Auto executives reporting earnings earlier this week displayed confidence ...
Procter & Gamble Sounds a Warning After Strong Quarter
Updated July 29, 2022 9:17 pm ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Procter & Gamble maker of Tide detergent and Pampers diapers, is predicting the slowest sales growth in years as consumer belt-tighte...
Fed Up With China, One Boss Tries Removing It From the Supply Chain
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Consumer Staples Stocks Are Usually Safe. Here’s Why They’re Getting Crushed.
Text size Stock for Procter & Gamble, maker of Dawn dish soap, is down 13% since April 20. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Consumer staples stocks have been crushed in the past couple of months. They are ...
Astrology’s Burgeoning Relationship With The Grocery World
Nancy Reagan relied on one, as did George W. Bush, Winston Churchill and FDR – celebs including Mae West, George Clooney, Cameron Diaz and Maria Shriver all did as well. Albert Einstein, well regarded...
Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are Hours for Easter Monday 2022.
Text size Dreamstime U.S. investors eager to trade after the holiday weekend will have plenty of news to digest, thanks to corporate earnings. More than 100 companies are slated to report this week—an...
U.S. Stocks Poised for a Lower Open on Monday
U.S. stock markets are poised for a subdued open on Monday. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Text size U.S. stocks are set for a lower open on Monday. On Sunday night, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell...
Procter & Gamble hikes dividend by 5%
Procter & Gamble Co. PG, -0.30% said late Tuesday its board approved a 5% dividend hike for its 66th straight year of dividend increases. The consumer products maker said it will pay a quarterly d...
Why P&G Just Gained a New Fan
Text size P&G’s products were popular earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic. Joe Raedle/Getty Images Investors have been wary of consumer staples stocks lately, given worries about high inflation...
Value Investing Is Back. But How Do You Choose the Right ETF?
Value investing is coming back. Over the past decade, growth stocks have outpaced value shares, which usually have lots of tangible assets relative to their market value. In those 10 years, the S&...
Weekend reads: the slowing housing market and inverted yield curve signal a coming recession
It is human nature to fear missing out as prices skyrocket, But all bubbles burst eventually. Ian Shepherdson of Pantheon Macroeconomics predicts a 25% decline in U.S. home sales. What will that do to...
4 Stocks That Could Thrive During Inflation
Text size Caterpillar is lucky to have customers flush with cash from rising commodity prices. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Inflation is hot—and that’s cooling off plenty of companies’ earnings. But n...
Inflation Turns Procter & Gamble’s Reported Growth Into A Downturn
Procter & Gamble corporate headquarters in downtown Cincinnati (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) ASSOCIATED PRESS P&G’s Wednesday (January 19) quarterly earnings report started out with hi...
Is the Stock Market Open Today? These Are the Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2022 Hours.
Text size Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Investors looking for a brief respite from two weeks of volatile trading on Wall Street may get one on Mo...
Get ready for the climb. Here’s what history says about stock-market returns during Fed rate-hike cycles.
Bond yields are rising again so far in 2022. The U.S. stock market seems vulnerable to a bona fide correction. But what can you really tell from a mere two weeks into a new year? Not much and quite a ...
P&G earnings: Sales are set to fall for the first time in 5 years as higher prices take a toll
Procter & Gamble Co. can be expected to beat expectations, as it usually does, when it reports fiscal second-quarter earnings later this week, but investors can assume that continued price increas...