• Sleep Well At Night Owning This Hotel REIT

  By Portfolio Management 101 : As the old saying goes, when it comes to real estate, the three most important factors are location, location, location. In other words, a property's location is so important to the value of the property that everything else barely matters. When it comes to hotel…

• Unitil's CEO Discusses Q4 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

  Unitil Corporation ( UTL ) Q4 2013 Earnings Call January 29, 2014 2:00 PM ET Executives David Chong – Director, IR Bob Schoenberger – President, Chairman and CEO Tom Meissner – SVP and COO Mark Collin – SVP and CFO Analysts Liam Burke – Janney Capital Markets Presentation …

• Federal Reserve sticks with $10bn taper

  Ben Bernanke's final meeting as chairman of the Federal Reserve includes no mention of growing economic turmoil in emerging markets

• Why HCI Is Still A Buy After Last Year's Gains (And Last Week's Losses)

  By John Reese : "Don't chase hot stocks." It's advice that any good value investor has heard hundreds of times, and it's good advice -- in the right context. Indeed, chasing a hot stock that has been surging solely on hype and speculation rather than fundamentals is a dangerous…

• UMB Financial's CEO Discusses Q4 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

  UMB Financial Corporation ( UMBF ) Q4 2013 Earnings Conference Call January 29, 2014 09:30 ET Executives Abby Wendel - Director, Investor Relations Mariner Kemper - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Peter deSilva - President and Chief Operating Officer Mike Hagedorn - Chief Financial Officer …

• Lloyds business adviser cuts anger Cable

  Business secretary tells colleagues move is an 'absolute betrayal' by the partly state-owned bank, which had pledged to prioritise business lending

• Virtus Investment Partners Management Discusses Q4 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

  Virtus Investment Partners ( VRTS ) Q4 2013 Earnings Call January 29, 2014 11:00 am ET Executives Joe Fazzino George R. Aylward - Chief Executive Officer, President and Director Michael A. Angerthal - Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer, Executive Vice President and Treasurer …

• Ericsson CEO Vestberg tells board he plans to stay: Bloomberg

  STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg has told directors he has no plans to step down from the company following a report he is among candidates to take over from Microsoft Corp's Steve Ballmer, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.

• Phillips 66: Snap-Back Q4 Bodes Well For Continued Enterprise Growth In 2014

  By Michael Fitzsimmons: For Phillips 66 ( PSX ), Q3 was weak with pressure on refining margins. However, the ability of the company to post net-income of half a billion dollars while refining actually lost $2 million, was (at least to me) a sign of strength . Indeed, today PSX announced Q4 earnings…

• IBERIABANK's CEO Discusses Q4 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

  IBERIABANK Corp. ( IBKC ) Q4 2013 Results Earnings Call January 29, 2014 9:30 AM ET Executives John Davis - Senior Executive Vice President, Investor Relations Daryl Byrd - President and CEO Anthony Restel - Chief Financial Officer Jeff Parker - Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Brokerage,…

• Analysis: Spring thaw to briefly relieve hot U.S. beef prices

  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Already pricey beef at grocery stores is expected to become even more expensive in February - wholesale beef and cattle prices are at all-time highs this winter in the United States, fueled by a tight supply of cattle.

• Amazon Can Expect Good Q4 On Holiday Sales

  By Trefis : We expect strong revenue growth accompanied by a slight improvement in margins as Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN ) releases its Q4 2013 results on January 30. Although the retail sales during the holiday season showed mild growth, e-commerce benefited from the cold weather as buyers preferred…

• IPO ETF Up 48% In 2013: Surprising Holdings

  By YCharts : By Dee Gill Initial public offerings are notorious for leaving shareholders crying at least as often as they make someone rich, but it's the glorious stories that we all latch onto. The 50% return first-day Twitter ( TWTR ) buyers made in eight weeks. The way Amazon.com ( AMZN )…

• Integrated Silicon Solution's CEO Discusses F1Q 2014 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

  Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. ( ISSI ) F1Q 2014 Earnings Conference Call January 29, 2014 10:00 AM ET Executives Scott Howarth - President and CEO John Cobb - CFO Analysts Jeff Schreiner - Feltl and Company Gary Mobley - Benchmark Rajivindra Gill - Needham & Company Ian Ing - MKM…

• Navios Maritime Partners' CEO Discusses Q4 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

  Navios Maritime Partners L.P. ( NMM ) Q4 2013 Earnings Conference Call January 29, 2013 08:30 a.m. ET Executives Angeliki Frangou – Chairman of the Board & CEO Efstratios Desypris – CFO George Achniotis – EVP - Business Development & Director Analysts Michael Webber – Wells…

• Dow down 200 points after Fed

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• P/E Ratios All Same? Screening To Find Growth

  By YCharts : By Dee Gill Value investors make money by buying stocks on sale, when the shares are relatively cheap on measures like P/E ratio or cash flow ratio. It's a tried and true method of stock picking that served investors particularly well in last year's market bonanza, when it was…

• Can Archer Daniels Midland Save Your Retirement Portfolio?

  By Doug Carey : When I look to add dividend paying stocks to my retirement portfolio I always look for companies that have a long history of paying dividends as well as a history of solid growth in those dividends. It's even better if the company has shown it can weather recessions by not…

• Energizer Holdings Management Discusses Q1 2014 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

  Energizer Holdings ( ENR ) Q1 2014 Earnings Call January 29, 2014 10:00 am ET Executives Jacqueline E. Burwitz - Vice President of Investor Relations Daniel J. Sescleifer - Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Ward M. Klein - Chief Executive Officer, Director, Member of Executive…

• 1-800-Flowers.com Management Discusses Q2 2014 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

  1-800-Flowers.com ( FLWS ) Q2 2014 Earnings Call January 29, 2014 11:00 am ET Executives Joseph D. Pititto - Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate Communications James F. McCann - Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and Member of Secondary Compensation Committee William E.…