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Foot Locker (FL) has made a remarkable recovery from the 2008 downturn, producing a 70% return from a year ago. The company now sits on a 3% dividend yield.

The US consumes more energy than Europe. We have had a push for energy independence and New York State may set a negative precedent for such independence.

Do you use your credit cards quite regularly around this time of year and then get hit with a huge bill in January? Here are a few ways to help prevent those oversized bills from putting a damper on your Christmas season.

With a 2.4% dividend yield and a growing payout, Analog Devices (ADI) is an innovative electronics company with a $10bn market cap.

Ketchup giant HJ Heinz is exploding in emerging markets. What does this mean for the long-term dividend payer?

In early November 2009 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) sold 200 metric tones of gold for US $6.7 billion. India’s average price was about $1,045 an ounce. Gold will not go below the $1,045 (let’s say the $1,000 level) for a long, long, long time. Having this benchmark set, one can now begin to re-explore the gold/silver ratio having a basement for one of the four variables (gold high/low and silver high/low).

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It is rarer than gold, more expensive than platinum (over $10,000 per ounce two years ago) and the three types of people to know anything about it are select investors, metallurgists and car mechanics.

Between profit taking, international interest policies and international debt worries and discussion, metals took the brunt.

Merck (MRK), a leading pharma giant, is under pressure thanks to its disastrous roll-out of Vioxx, and a shaky drug pipeline. However, the company has paid a dividend every year for the last 40 years, and sits on a generous 4% yield.

Are you having problems making your mortgage payments? Are you trying to save up for a down payment on a new home? Creating a budget may be the best way to accomplish either of those goals.

Energy giant Chevron (CVX) presents a long-term dividend history and a reasonable valuation.

The game of investing in gold is a fine line of hedging inflation and increasing worth vs alternative investing and maintaining worth. However, inflation has caused some investors to forget how prices have actually risen. Remember your parents telling you what they could buy for a nickel?

Chemicals giant Du Pont (DD) has paid out a dividend for 425 consecutive quarters. The current yield is 3.5%, presenting a very compelling argument for conservative income seeking investors.

Sleepy's, a private company selling low end mattresses based in Long Island, NY, is a nightmare for customers, employees and everyone around it. Whereas BP commits to making things right, Sleepy's is the worst corporate citizen around. How can a company like this - even if private - be permitted to exist in 2010?