Stock Investing

Relative tickers: Nasdaq: RIMM, Nasdaq: AAPL, NYSE: NOK, Nasdaq: MSFT, NYSE: HPQ, NYSE: MOT, NYSE: MSI, Nasdaq: QCOM, NYSE: ALU, Nasdaq: ACOM, Nasdaq: SPWRB, Nasdaq: SPWRA, Nasdaq: FFBH, Nasdaq: NTGR, Nasdaq: WEBM, Nasdaq: STBC, NYSE: LVB, Nasdaq: ASGN, NYSE: MXL, Nasdaq: TNAV, Nasdaq: GBLI, Nasdaq: SCEI, NYSE: NR, Nasdaq: AMTC, NYSE: DRL, NYSE: TGS, NYSE: N, NYSE: LFT, AMEX: AIM, Nasdaq: SWKS, NYSE: KEG, Nasdaq: ZNWAW, Nasdaq: INUV; Losers – Nasdaq: REGN, Nasdaq: USATW, NYSE: HRZ, Nasdaq: KVHI, Nasdaq: EDSWW, NYSE: SKH, Nasdaq: USAT, Nasdaq: SUNH, Nasdaq: INPH, Nasdaq: SPPI, Nasdaq: ENSG, Nasdaq: ROSA, Nasdaq: CNGL, NYSE: ZZ, Nasdaq: GDOT, Nasdaq: CTCT, Nasdaq: SURW, NYSE: IM, Nasdaq: GFRE, Nasdaq: DECK, Nasdaq: TGIS, Nasdaq: DRIV, NYSE: RAS

Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM) dropped 14% Friday. R

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What is happening in Canada? If you look at the iShares MSCI Canada Index Fund (EWC) over the last year, it is up over 22%. Canada has weathered the banking crisis and housing crisis much better than the United States. Fortunately for income investors looking for diversification, our northern neighbor has over a dozen stocks with yields above 3% according the recently updated free list of top yielding Canadian stocks at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Royal Bank of Canada (RY) is one of Canada’s major banks, based in Toronto, Ontario and yields 3.8%. Jim Cramer mentioned it on Mad Money today as a bank worth investing in and a much better alternative to British banks. Full Post…

Earnings homerun slugger Apple Inc. (AAPL) went yard once again when it announced earnings results for 2nd quarter 2011 Wednesday after the bell. Earnings of $6.40 per share beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $5.35 by 19.6%. Quarterly revenues of $24.67 billion easily topped expectations of $23.1 billion.

The after-market cheered the results and sent AAPL shares up nearly $9 after the closing bell, for a gain of over 2.5%. This followed a more tempered 1.35% gain during normal trading hours today.

Sales of iPhones stood out 18.65 million phones were sold in the quarter, up from the 16.3 million expected.

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Market is Closed

[] S&P futures vs fair value: +1.90. Nasdaq futures vs fair value: +4.70. Stock futures are largely unfazed by the latest dose of data, which actually proved better than expected. Durable goods orders for March increased by 2.5%, which exceeds the 1.8% increase that had been widely anticipated. The increase for March is also greater than the upwardly revised 0.7% increase registered for the prior month. Excluding transportation, durable goods orders increased by a more tepid 1.3%, which is slightly better than the 1.2% that had been expected, on average, among economists polled by . The prior month’s data was revised upward to reflect an increase of 0.6%.

There are plenty of benefits to owning stocks that pay their dividends monthly. According to the Excel list that was just updated by WallStreetNewsNetwork.com, there are over 200 different companies that pay dividends monthly, many of which have high yields. Technically, these stocks are real estate investment trusts, oil income trusts, closed end bond funds, and closed end income stock funds, which pay dividends every month. Advantages to receiving monthly dividends as opposed to quarterly or annual dividend stocks are that the invested capital is returned faster, compounding takes place quicker, and there is usually less price volatility of the investment. Also, many of monthly dividend investments pay dividends that are tax free. Full Post…