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Which Sectors Are Leading the Market Higher? And Why Is This Important?

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Missed the ’13 Most Important Steps to Understand the Stock Market’? Click here. Demand academic evidence regarding the efficacy of the Valuentum process? Click here. Tobias J. Moskowitz and Mark Grinblatt documented the “strong and prevalent momentum effect in industry components of stock returns which accounts for much of the individual stock momentum anomaly” in their scholarly article published in the Journal of Finance, ‘Do Industries Explain Momentum’ (download here; stable link here; updated by Fraulo and Nguyen here). Moskowitz and Grinblatt also concluded that “industry momentum investment strategies, which buy stocks from past winning industries and sell stocks from past losing industries, appear highly profitable.” Such findings are consistent with the ‘Case for the Valuentum Style of Investing,’ and … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending February 12

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Below we provide a list of firms that raised/lowered their dividends during the week ending February 12. The dividend reports of covered firms on this list will be updated shortly with the new information. To access our dividend reports use the ‘Symbol’ search box in our website header. Firms Raising Their Dividends This Week AGL Resources, Inc. (GAS): now $0.53 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.51. Allstate (ALL): now $0.33 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.30. American International Group (AIG): now $0.32 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.28. Aubum National Bancorporation (AUBN): now $0.225 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.22. Bank of Botetourt (BORT): now $0.12 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.10. Canadian General Investments, Limited (CGRIF): now C$0.16 per … Read more