The whole market including the large cap stocks have taken a hit recently.

In part 12 of my 54 part series on Dividend Aristocrats I take a closer look at Target's current operations, competitive advantage, future growth prospects, and dividend potential.

Costco Wholesale Corporation has released with its fourth-quarter fiscal 2014 results today. Quarterly earnings of $1.58 per share surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.52.

December E-mini S&Ps this morning are up +0.12% as prices recover slightly from Tuesday's slide, while European stocks are down-0.32% on global economic concerns after the IMF yesterday cut its global GDP forecast.

Diamond Foods, Inc. (DMND - Analyst Report), a specialty food company, focused on processing, marketing and distribution of snack products and culinary ingredient and in-shell nuts, is slated to report its fourth-quarter fiscal 2014 results on Sep 25, 2014.

I wanted to see how the NASDAQ 100 stocks were doing so I used Barchart to sort the NASDAQ 100 Index stocks for the 5 that had the highest technical buy signals then used the Flipchart feature to review the stocks.