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ThinkstockS&P 500 dividend growth continues to outpace earnings growth, a trend that likely will continue for a few more years. Low yields on fixed income alternatives and historically low...
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ThinkstockThe effects of last week’s surprise devaluation of Venezuela’s currency are already hitting some U.S. firms. Colgate-Palmolive Co. (NYSE: CL) said this morning that it will take a $120...
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ThinkstockPipeline master limited partnership Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE: KMP) announced this afternoon that it will update the scope of its expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline...
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U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning even though the number of new U.S. claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected before markets opened (more coverage here). The news was...
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ThinkstockIn January 2010, France’s supermajor oil & gas company Total SA (NYSE: TOT) paid about $2.25 billion for a 25% stake in the Barnett shale leases owned by Chesapeake Energy Corp....
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ThinkstockWarren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) subsidiary MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. has acquired the 579-megawatt Antelope Valley solar projects from SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ:...
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thinkstockThe alternative energy sector is supposed to be one of the great winners of the 2012 election outcome. After all, an Obama victory would indicate further government support for what are...
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This graphic was drawn by SKopp.[Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsThe big news might have read “MOODY’S DOWNGRADES FRANCE” had it not been for the Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) debacle...
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ThinkstockFrance’s Total S.A. (NYSE: TOT) announced this morning that it has sold its 20% stake in an offshore Nigerian oil block to subsidiary of China Petrochemical Corp. (NYSE: SNP), or Sinopec,...
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courtesy Chesapeake Energy Corp.Aubrey McClendon, co-founder and CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) told an investor conference yesterday that the Utica shale play in eastern Ohio is unlikely...
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Last week we noted that Royal Dutch Shell plc (NYSE: RDS-A) (NYSE: RDS-B) had applied for a permit to export U.S. crude. BP plc (NYSE: BP) has already received a permit to export U.S. crude to...
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Last week the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) issued a report largely gave the world’s oil trading markets a pass. It didn’t want to, but the original draft which...
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U.S. attempts to probe illegal activity at HSBC Holdings PLC (NYSE: HBC) are set back by interagency battles. (Reuters) Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) names a new chief financial officer. (Reuters)...
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A group called the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), composed of representatives from national financial regulators, had proposed changing the way commodities benchmarks,...
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Jon OggThese are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Tuesday. Automatic Data Processing Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP) cut to Neutral at UBS. Bank...
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