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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is trading lower in the after-hours period after its annual report was filed with the SEC after the close of trading today.  The drop is due to ongoing margin pressures. ...
“Double Irish” and “Dutch Sandwich”  sounds like action movies or detective novels.  The last thing that anyone would suspect them to be were  sophisticated tax avoidance strategies that...
Construction and engineering firm Fluor Corp. (NYSE:FLR) has revealed that the company will take a charge of about $163 million, or -$0.90/share, against its third quarter results due to projected...
Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK) is neither a company nor a stock that is without controversy.  It has a lot of fans who have been buying shares before and after it became a penny stock.  It...
Master limited partnerships are a unique investment class for the dividend-oriented and for the income-oriented investor alike.  As they are MLP’s, they generally pass cash down to investors at...
Jim Cramer came to the same conclusion we did about Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR)… This week’s news about the accounting and SEC inquiry is a game changer.  On tonight’s...
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is getting a new CFO.  The company has an SEC filing that shows that Thomas M. Schoewe will retire on November 30 as executive vice president and chief financial...
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) may have just seen a change on how investors are going to treat its growth story ahead.  The company’s latest SEC filing disclosed accounting...
You probably already know now that Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has promised to pay a dividend of 1.5 to 2% initially for 2011. After a multi-year period of dead performance, this was a...
Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) has finally buckled to pressure to return capital to shareholders.  While we did not get the promise of a one-time massive dividend we outlined as a possibility,...
Economists who specialize in the effects of taxes on GDP had often made a simple and rational forecast. Tax rates would rise in 2011 because individuals and businesses assumed that tax cuts...
The estate tax is not and never has been a “death tax” , yet the nickname that critics gave it a few years ago has stuck.  That’s a pity because the levy underscores the notion that America is...
The U.S. Census Bureau has disclosed the endless spending and obligations of the federal domestic spending programs.  The numbers for spending increases during 2009 are mind-boggling.  Federal...
The House of Representatives just passed a $26 billion aid package to troubled state and local governments by a 247-to-161 vote. The last formality required for the checks to go out is a signature...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning: American Electric Power Co., Inc. (NYSE: AEP) Cut to Neutral at...