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President Obama wants millionaires and billionaires taxed at a rate as least as high as the one school teachers pay. That plan is among the key issues between the Administration and Republican...
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This may be a first. Have you ever seen a company repurchase stock and then announce that it repurchased too much stock and has sold shares to get the cash back? This is the story of LDK Solar...
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The American Jobs Act is a bill which is supposed to be “fully paid for.” It isn’t. In the attack on wealth at all costs, the measure to tax municipal bond interest for the wealthy ($200K...
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Stock in Dunkin’ Brands (NASDAQ: DNKN) has soared 34% since an initial public offering in July at $19 a share, driven by investor optimism on the coffee and doughnut chain’s growth potential in...
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The Census Bureau is out with the 2010 figures on income, poverty, and health insurance. About all you can hope for is that 2011 is magically better than 2010 because many of the figures are...
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ReneSola Ltd. (NYSE: SOL) is a solar stock that has beaten up so bad that it could be screened out as a value stock. Just yesterday we gave a list of new value stocks in the solar sector, but we...
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The California legislature has passed a bill that gives Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) until September 2012 to pay state taxes on its e-commerce sales there. Governor Jerry Brown still has to sign the...
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Tonight’s speech from President Obama started out great and offered great promise. The Republicans and the Democrats are likely going to be further apart tomorrow than they were before. The...
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VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) is up a second day in a row on strong volume after the company has cancelled two investor presentations.�� The hope is that there is some M&A development brewing...
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American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) has filed a registration Form S-1 for a proposed initial public offering of its wholly-owned IFLC Holdings, Inc. subsidiary. IFLC is the aircraft...
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These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Monday morning. Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET) Reiterated Buy with $51 target at Argus....
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It is no secret that the market volatility has many investors rattled. What is very counter-intuitive is that many companies are continuing with most or all of their investor friendly plans...
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The floor for interest rates is ZERO. Right? Apparently not when extreme conditions arise. Those extreme conditions came today as investors moved solidly into the safety of very short-dated...
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You have now seen that the Senate followed the House in the vote to raise the debt ceiling. The credit ratings agencies are still lingering out there over how to rate the creditworthiness of the...
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Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) is a company that is in trouble. Maybe that should read “is, has been, and will continue to be” in trouble. For all practical purposes, it might not have a...
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