Household Products

Kimberly-Clark Corporation (NYSE: KMB) today announced that its baby and child care and consumer tissue businesses are notifying customers of plans to raise prices in North America during the second and third quarters of 2011. The company said the increases are necessary to offset inflationary...

Doug Kass is on CNBC and he said that we are in a "bull market of uncertainty" right now. Kass said he likes defensive stocks, pharmaceuticals, and REITs here. He mentioned names like Clorox (NYSE: CLX) and Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) as names to buy on this weakness.

By CommoditiesMansion.com Light Sweet Crude (CL) The selling seen today was a basic knee-jerk reaction to the news coming out of Japan. In times like these, traders will often sell first, and ask questions later. This is basically what happened on Monday as we found the $100 level supportive...

Below are the top large-cap personal product stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of profit margin. The trailing-twelve-month profit margin at Colgate-Palmolive Company (NYSE: CL) is 14.15%. CL's ROE for the same period is 76.16%. The trailing-twelve-month profit margin at Procter &...

Don't forget to follow me on Twitter! I have written updates the past 3 months on a screen I call "High Yield Stocks with Staying Power".  The screen is tracked publicly as a continuous hypothetical portfolio with a starting balance of $100,000 on Scott's Investments (see the right hand column...

Unilever (NYSE: UN), the Anglo-Dutch consumer products giant, is shopping its Sanex unit, a business that was the company's primary reason for acquiring Sara Lee's (NYSE: SLE) international toiletries business in December for $1.69 billion, in sale that is being forced by the European Union due to...

This afternoon on CNBC's Fast Money, Whitney Tilson said that while he is a big fan and an admirer of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), he is sticking with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). “There's an argument against a lot of the big cap stocks that are struggling,” Tilson said. “But Microsoft is growing like crazy...

Unconfirmed Rumors Circulate that Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) will acquire Clorox Corporation (CLX) at $85.00 a share,,

Below are the top cleaning product stocks on the NYSE in terms of earnings estimate for the next year. The earnings estimate for Stepan Company (NYSE: SCL) for the next year ending December, 2012 is $7.14 per share. SCL's PEG ratio is 0.72. Church & Dwight Company Inc (NYSE: CHD) is expected to...

Rajat Gupta is stepping down from the Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) board. This comes after Gupta was charged by the SEC for insider trading, by providing Raj Rajaratnam information on Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) and Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) that was not public.

Ex-Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) board member Rajat Gupta has been arrested on an insider trading case, giving hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam information that's been deemed illegal. Rajaratnam, who managed the Galleon fund, made over $900,000 in profits after Gupta tipped Rajaratnam off over the...

Procter & Gamble Company (The) (NYSE: PG) was downgraded by BMO Capital from "outperform" to "market perform." PG's shares closed at $62.84 on Friday. Procter & Gamble's PEG ratio is 1.77. JP Morgan downgraded Seagate Technology Plc (NASDAQ: STX) from “neutral” to “underweight.” STX' stock...

By Dian L. Chu Crude oil market has been on a wild roller coaster ride ever since riots started escalating in Egypt and Libya. The latest Libyan supply disruptions sent WTI futures surging above $103 a barrel in New York on Thursday, Feb. 24, while Brent oil in Europe was also closing in on $...

On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) has a “stock buyback program and a dividend boost.” He advises investors to stick with Conoco. He said that United Technologies (NYSE: UTX) is an “up stock. Business is great and management is great....

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends'. This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only...