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If you can count on one banking CEO to be outspoken, chances are high that it is Jamie Dimon of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM).  In his annual letter to shareholders, Dimon has come out...
The Securities and Exchange Commission is highlighting something which may be a concern for the popular mutual fund themes called Target Date Retirement Funds.  For the billions and billions of...
There is a good reality check today for anyone considering whether or not they should be committing capital to invest in Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND).  The nuts and snacks company is...
SmartHeat Inc. (NASDAQ: HEAT) is such a small company that you might wonder what to think of a 100% rally in the stock after reporting a loss.  The company sells plate heat exchangers in the...
Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) has now launched its Abbot Downing financial services that aims to serve the ultra-high net worth sector of wealthy Americans.  The move will instantly look...
ChinaCast Education Corporation (NASDAQ: CAST) is one of the Chinese companies where investors might not be best served by management.  Infighting at the board of director level appears to be met...
Many members of Congress and business executives voiced alarm when the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s 2012 Statutory Corporate Tax Rates were released. Of course, some of...
Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), the troubled online coupon company, has trouble getting its financials correct before its IPO. Now, post-IPO, it it in trouble again. Groupon revised both its Q4 2011 and...
In a “we versus them” speech today, President Obama again called for the end of subsidies for oil and gas companies.  His speech talked about the global opportunities that the big oil companies...
Swisher Hygiene Inc. (NASDAQ: SWSH) is having a bad day and it has to have shareholders more than just a bit worried.  The company has said that it will file a Notification of Late Filing with the...
Solar power just cannot get a break.  The age of austerity is drilling holes in the solar economic viability business model.  Today’s negative news flow stems out of Italy, where the nation is...
Sirius XMSIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is in the news after it filed a complaint against SoundExchange, Inc. and American Association of Independent Music (“A2IM”).  The suit alleges that...
The environment of ‘exceptionally low interest rates’ may help borrowers, but it has the unintended consequences of bringing real returns to zero or even negative if you consider the impact of...
American Electric Power Company (NYSE: AEP) is making its closure plans official.  The power generator and utility has made its notifications to the PJM Interconnection and Southwest Power Pool to...
Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND) is adding insult to injury this morning.  The company was never known for its great dividend, but the company is suspending its dividend in an order to conserve...