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Jon OggThe short interest data is out for the July 31 settlement date. We often review the higher-yield defensive dividend…
ThinkstockThe scientific journal Addiction has reviewed the available research on the use, contents and safety of e-cigarettes and determined that…
Jon OggThe short interest data for the July 15 settlement date is out and we have compared the defensive dividend…
Altria Group reported disappointing second-quarter 2014 results before markets opened Tuesday morning. Altria also added a new $1 billion stock…
Wikimedia CommonsEquity markets have been extremely strong in the past few years. Most of America’s largest companies have managed to…
Philip Morris International reported better-than-expected second-quarter 2014 results before markets opened on Thursday morning. Currency translation effects cost the company…
Tuesday morning's announcement of the $27.4 billion acquisition by Reynolds American of follow tobacco products maker Lorillard did not light…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations from Wall Street firms on Friday, July 11, 2014. They include…
Jon OggThe short interest data for the June 30 settlement date is out, and there were selectively an increasing number…
The short interest data for the first two weeks of June show that short interest was higher in almost all…
A new report from Stifel makes the case that there are four large-cap, very solid consumer staples stocks that are…
ThinkstockThe short interest data for the final two weeks of May have been released, and the results are somewhat surprising…
Jon OggThis past week we could not help noticing how low tobacco dividends have become. The driving force may be…
ThinkstockThe trend of declining cigarette case volumes has been going on for years, or somewhere around two decades now. As…
ThinkstockDividend payments by S&P 500 companies reached an all-time high last year, totaling some $330.8 billion, according to FactSet. As…
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