There's an old saying on Wall Street about insider buying: there are many possible reasons to sell a stock, but only one reason to buy.

By Forbes 05/17/12 - 05:21 PM EDT By DividendChannel.com By Michael Johnston New JCP CEO Ron Johnson over promised and under delivered, resulting in a hideous first-quarter report.

The DividendRank formula at Dividend Channel ranks a coverage universe of thousands of dividend stocks, according to a proprietary formula designed to identify those stocks that combine two important characteristics - strong fundamentals and a ...

(Adds CEO comment in second paragraph, share reaction in third and fourth paragraphs, detail in 11th paragraph.) By Matthew Curtin and Jessica Hodgson Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON (Dow Jones)--Invensys PLC (ISYS.

Housing market has been depressed for several years. Recently, however, it has started to show early signs of a nascent recovery in market activity.

By Tiernan Ray Shares of Whirlpool (WHR) are up $1.43, or 2.4%, at $61.86 after the company's management made a presentation this morning at a JP Morgan homebuilding and building products conference in New York that included a reiteration of this ...

Kenneth Heebner, who ran one of the top-performing US mutual funds during the past decade, bought stakes in Whirlpool Corp. and Cummins Inc. (CMI) during the first quarter while selling Priceline.

The Consumer Cyclical sector (XLY) showed little movement on a trading day that saw S&P 500 fall 0.3%. As a proxy for the sector, the ETF tracked closer to the overall market today than over the past month.

By Anna-Louise Jackson and Anthony Feld on May 10, 2012 Spending on construction of new residential housing and improvements to existing homes is at a three-year high, a trend that may boost sales at Home Depot Inc. (HD) (HD) and Lowe's Cos.