Household Products

Shares of Colgate-Palmolive Co. (NYSE: CL) are lower on the session by 0.70%, currently trading at $82.72. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past eight weeks and is now trading above both the 50-day and 200-day moving average. Options traders are buying protection on the name today...

Energizer Holdings Inc (NYSE: ENR) was upgraded by UBS from “neutral” to “buy.” ENR’s shares closed at $53.83 yesterday. Energizer Holdings’ trailing-twelve-month gross margin stands at 46.29%. UBS upgraded Salesforce.com Inc (NYSE: CRM) from “neutral” to “buy.” CRM’s shares closed at $93.65...

Analysts at UBS upgrade Energizer Holdings Inc (NYSE: ENR) from "neutral" to "buy." ENR’s shares closed at $53.83 yesterday. More Analyst Ratings here

Golman Sachs says, "We expect the theme of volatile markets to dampen 2Q asset manager earnings. We forecast negative organic growth, the first quarter in over a year and our 2Q estimates are 10% below the Street. To be sure, the group (down -19% YTD) repriced the challenging operating backdrop,...

Some solid retail sales numbers and reassuring signs from the job market sent U.S. stocks higher for a third day on Thursday even as the International Monetary Fund noted the global economy would grow faster than expected this year.  After breaking through the 10,000 threshold Wednesday, the Dow...

Cusick’s Corner Trading was in a tight range today and major markets closed up. With all the positive commentary and action in the market (especially how it held up after the Consumer Credit data), don’t put on rose colored glasses and simply be complacent with this new trend. We have a lot of...

Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ: TSCO) shares gained 3.09% to $65.73 at 11:29 am. The volume of TSCO shares traded was 185% higher than normal. TSCO has raised its forecasts for 2010 due to favorable weather conditions. Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) shares jumped 2.34% to $46.80. The...

Stocks fell modestly on Monday as fears of a global economic slowdown kept investors on toes throughout the session.  As investors braced for key economic reports due to be released this week, they walked a fine line trying to balance global growth concerns with promises of a slow but a steady...

Year 3, Week 47 Major Position Changes To see historic weekly fund changes click here OR the label at the bottom of this entry entitled 'fund positions'. Cash: 76.2% (v 70.8% last week) 17 long bias: 21.8% (v 16.8% last week)  2 short bias: 2.0% (v 12.5% last week) [Includes 1 'long dollar'...

  On April 30th in The Coming Crash: Four Reasons Pro and Con, we examined the array of bullish and bearish forces, and argued that the bearish case was overwhelmingly strong. As the below monthly chart shows, it was a timely exercise. Because we need to do this for our own background research, we...

If, after reading the blog content you might have an interest in participation for the mutual fund, please consider reading why this blog exists. [Jan 2008: Reader Pledges Toward Mutual Fund Launch] [May 2008: Frequently Asked Questions] Our story in Barron's [A New Kind of Fund Manager] [...

Unfortunately this week was not a fun one since the Monday morning spike over S&P 1120 stopped out most of my individual short holdings - hours before the market began a retreat of some 40 S&P points.  Talk about a classic headfake.  One of the two remaining short positions that did not get...

Year 3, Week 46 Major Position Changes To see historic weekly fund changes click here OR the label at the bottom of this entry entitled 'fund positions'. Cash:70.8% (v 84.8% last week) 16 long bias: 16.8% (v 13.1% last week)  8 short bias: 12.5% (v 2.1% last week) [Includes 1 'long dollar'...

Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) (BRK-B), is one of the three richest people in the world and a top trader and investor. The latest SEC report came out on Berkshire and shows his latest moves as of the end of March. What is most significant about this list is not what he is buying...