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The FCC issued its Eighth Broadband Progress Report, which it has to do annually according to Section 706 the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The core reason for the effort is to show whether...
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JDS Uniphase Corp. (NASDAQ: JDSU) reported adjusted fourth fiscal quarter EPS of $0.15 and $439.3 million in revenues before markets opened this morning. In the same period a year ago, the fiber...
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American States Water Co. (NYSE: AWR) has just announced that it is raising its dividend. The water utility said this brings its payout ratio more in-line with its industry peers and that this...
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Twitter and India may want to hire the same quality assurance outfit. According to Techcrunch, Twitter has 500 million users, of which the tech news site says 170 million are active. One of the...
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CIA World FactbookChina has a robust infrastructure that includes roads and bridges. It also has a sophisticated energy delivery system. As a matter of fact, several of the biggest companies in the...
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By now you know that we have started to become cautious on some of the top dividend stocks. It is not that we think anything is wrong at the companies, and it is not that the companies cannot grow...
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Electric power generators NRG Energy Inc. (NYSE: NRG) and GenOn Energy Inc. (NYSE: GEN) have agreed to merge in an all-stock transaction valued at $1.7 billion. Under the terms of the deal, GenOn...
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Friday morning, American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) reported that its 2012 second-quarter earnings came to $362 million, or 75 cents per share. That was up from $352 million or $0.73 per share for...
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Today marks the closing of the $32 billion merger between Duke Energy Corp. (NYSE: DUK) and Progress Energy. Duke initiated a one-for-three reverse stock split at the same time and the former CEO of...
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Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) has confirmed that it is targeting an additional $3 billion worth of capital investment to support long-term and sustainable growth in India. This may not sound massive...
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Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) has just done exactly what we expected with a dividend hike. We recently highlighted that it was one of only a few remaining DJIA stocks which will hike their dividends...
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Shares of nuclear waste disposal company Energy Solutions Inc. (NYSE: ES) are getting pummeled today following the announcement that the company has appointed a new CEO and that the company has...
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By now the markets figured out that all of this week’s preliminary jobs numbers did in fact call it right that the unemployment and jobs report was right. So investors are scrambling to find...
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The utility sector is a favorite of dividend and income investors. The group was the best performing group of 2011 as investors snapped up higher dividends rather than Treasuries and CDs. So far,...
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Cameco Corporation (NYSE: CCJ) already trades closer to its 52-week low than its high $21.18 versus $16,59 and $31.25, respectively) and it is already at a significant discount to the consensus...
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