Don't let the pundit-speak about "lagging indicator" or the market's move Friday fool you, the job market is crucial to the stock market right now.     Read More

Companies including TD Ameritrade, Coach and Turkey's Turkcell could be on Warren Buffett's radar, according to a quantitative screen by Standard & Poor's.   Read More

I’ve said it before, and I know it’s a bad cliché (is there such a thing as a good cliché?), but I learn something new almost every day. Today, my lesson came in the form of an eye-catching research note out of Leerink Swann, which specializes in covering healthcare-related companies and stocks.    Read More

The third quarter has past and for investors seeking dividends, they can be glad.  Standard & Poor's said yesterday that third-quarter dividend increases this year were the worst on record. Dividend payments during the third quarter fell 44.8% from a year ago, with only 191 of about 7,000 public companies -tracked by S&P- increasing their payouts.    Read More

Sigma-Aldrich has risen more than 45 percent since its March lows, and some options traders apparently believe that the biochemical company has even more upside potential.    Read More