Merck & Co Inc
NYSE: MRK
$96.31
-$2.05 (-2.1%)
Closing Price on November 15, 2024
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The Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank, has published its 17th annual survey of CEO compensation, noting, among other things, that CEOs of the 50 firms that have laid off the most...
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(DD, MCD, BA, CAT, KFT, AA, HPQ, MSFT, BAC, CSCO, VZ, T, IBM, CVX, TRV, KO, PG, MRK) For the calendar year through August 30th, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is down 4%. But that 4% is not spread...
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What happens when Dow Jones Industrial Average components have dividend yields on the common stocks that are above the yield of the 10-year Treasury Note or even the 30-Year Treasury Long Bond? In...
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Defense contractor Northrop Grumman cut 642 people from its ship building operation yesterday. That follows another 300 cuts from the same operation last month. The reason given was that the Navy has...
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Members of Dell Inc.’s (NYSE: DELL)Board of Directors have many distractions preventing them from reviving the struggling computer maker which help their back accounts and hurt the computer’s...
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Concerns about the economy ran well ahead of those about the environment and the clean up in the Gulf. That should not be a surprise because there is a great deal of evidence about the economy...
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GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK), like a number of pharmaceutical companies before it, has run up against the truth about one of its drugs. According to The New York Times, “In the fall of 1999, the...
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Reuters: The US did not name China a currency manipulator. Reuters: Most money managers don’t believe the U.S. is in a double-dip recession — yet. Reuters: The IMF said housing and...
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Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK) will dump 16,000 workers now that its merger with Schering-Plough well along. The company announced plans to phase out operations at eight research sites and eight...
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The problems in the Gulf have caused BP’s shares to drop from a 52-week high of $62 to the current price of $32. Two years ago, they were almost $70. BP’s stock is likely to surge again, and may...
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Stocks may have bounced from their lows and gone lower of late, but there are still many down and out value stocks out there where shares may have been overly punished from the highs and with...
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There are three things investors traditionally want after making huge gains when they still want to hold stocks. They want stocks that have dividends and may want ‘value stocks.’ But the...
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These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning: Canadian Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ) Raised to Buy but lowered...
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Reuters: Calm water is helping manage the Gulf oil spill. Reuters: April retail sales should be up in a sign of consumer recovery. Reuters: The US is questioning Johnson & Johnson’s...
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Earnings season is slowly getting behind us for the regular quarter-end companies. But there are still many influential companies still reporting which can still move their respective sectors. ...
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