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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. ...
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“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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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