Arlington Asset Investment Corp (NYSE: AI) has been named as a Top 10 dividend-paying financial stock, according to Dividend Channel, which published its most recent ?DividendRank? report. The report noted that among shares of financial companies, AI displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics. For example, the recent AI share price of $24.59 ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:57

Colony Financial Inc. (NYSE: CLNY) has been named as a Top 10 Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), according to Dividend Channel, which published its most recent ?DividendRank? report. The report noted that among REITs, CLNY shares displayed both attractive valuation metrics and strong profitability metrics. For example, the recent CLNY share price of $16.91 represents ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:57

Celebrating its sixth birthday yesterday, Twitter revealed that it now has 140 million users generating a collective 340 million posts a day. That's a lot of data with a lot of patterns hidden in it, just waiting to be teased out. Does one of those patterns hold the key to predicting movement in stock prices? It appears so, according to a study published this week by researchers at the University of California, Riverside.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:57

If the Federal Reserve is requiring banks to run a stress test, that should be a heads up to take their lead and follow suit with our own personal financial stress test.?? Last week, the results of the Federal Reserve 2012 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) were announced and fifteen out of the nineteen ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:57

If it succeeds in getting a license, Paypal could also bring its Paypal Here mobile card payments service to China, and become a major player in the Chinese online payments space.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:57

The sports and beverage market is outpacing the overall beverage market (in terms of volume) and is growing at 3% annually.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:57

Reports yesterday relayed by Reuters from the South Korean??Maeil Newspaper, quoted an unnamed industry source as saying that the next iPhone (the iPhone 5, or simply ?The New iPhone??) will have a 4.6? screen like the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The difference will be the greater pixel density of the iPhone?s retina display. MacRumors, which keeps ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:57

Criticism is a part of writing, and though it can be constructive, it can also be exhausting. I can spend a long while writing a piece I think is particularly good, only to have it torn apart online by savage commenters who seem bent on crushing my very soul. Such instances are why these last ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:57

TravelCenters of America is seeing improvement in the economy as more truckers stop at its centers. This Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy), however, is dirt cheap. It has a forward P/E of just 7.8.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:57

Why has creativity become more important now? Actually we've been obsessed with creativity for over two hundred years, the difference is now it matters to each of us.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 15:57