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In my previous post I discussed the potential of Apple becoming an income stock. Today the company announced that it would begin paying a $2.65 quarterly dividend, a current yield of about 1.8%. Along with the dividend Apple plans to buy back $10 billion of its stock. I believe returning capital to...

This is a current chart of Apple stock in white on top of a 2007 chart of Google in orange. I am not making any predictions here, but Todd Harrison at Minyanville says it best "We've seen this parabolic frolic before and it was always different--until it wasn't."     Doug Hendee, CFP(R)

What happened to the "news" story that was Dow 13,000? Over the last few weeks as US stock markets rose and the Dow Jones Industrial Average flirted with 13,000 stories filled the financial media. Their content was a typically breathless "will it or won't it" close above that magical mark. Experts o...

Recently, my colleague Brennan published a post relating our current economic climate to that of the 1970's. This concept of a cyclical economy is something that has been studied in great detail for many years. As Brennan posed, history never repeats itself exactly, but there are often many measurab...

  George Eastman was attacking apples before Steve Jobs was born. However, George grew up in apple country (I don't mean Cupertino) and must have had an appreciation for NY State's delicious varietals. There's a very good argument that Kodak was the Apple of its day. So, why is tod...

Investors often use historical comparisons to help gauge expectations on their investments. While this is a useful practice, history is full of time periods that have little in common with one another. If we look at the returns of a balanced portfolio (60% stocks / 40% bonds) from the years 1900 thr...

Brighton Securities is pleased to announce that Chuck Wade has joined our expert team of Financial Advisors. Chuck brings several years of client relationship-building experience from his previous career as a Sports Reporter on 13 WHAM. He is currently pursuing his MBA at The Bittner School of Busin...

I tell a lot of people about websites like Snopes.com. For those who don't know, Snopes and sites like it provide a resource for checking out the veracity of those pesky emails about things like bacterial onions, NPR's annual imminent defunding, or the laptop you can win by forwarding an email to 8...

Apparently I did. Last week, while I was going about the business of business - analyzing & advising, mainly - the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed over 13,000 for the first time since before the financial crisis gripped the global economy back in early 2008. I was informed of the Dow crossing th...

Kodak has announced that it intends to seek to cut some retiree health care benefits at the omnibus hearing in its bankruptcy court proceedings on March 20, 2012. The reduction of health care benefits has been an expected result of Kodak's Ch. 11 filing. Their intention as stated in the letter below...