Crowell Roberts Investment Blog

With over 90% reporting of the companies that make up the S&P 500, overall earnings of America’s biggest companies set a new record.

I suspect there is no truth to the rumor that Berlusconi intends to become President of the National Restaurant Association.

In my personal view, women have certainly presented risks but these have been greatly surpassed by their rewards.

Momentum is returning to quality stocks. This has been a trying year but patience is being rewarded.

Actually, there isn’t a plan yet and it seems to me as if the seconds for 17 Euro dueling countries had only agreed on a time and place where they could all shoot at each other.

After all, no other company mentioned here ever inspired its customers to put its logo on bumper stickers

Investors should take advantage of current fears and establish or augment positions in these energy stocks.

Apple (AAPL-$400), our largest position, made a new high on September 10, then was pushed down below $400 during the carnage but pushed back nicely. (It began the year at $325.) I expect it to hit $500.

Like many European companies, it pays two dividends a year. If it keeps its December payment at $.90, the same as last year, then 2011 payments will total $1.97, a yield of 10%.

In economic terms, a study by Brown University estimates the dollar costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at $4 trillion.