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courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.Investor George Soros reported last night that he had taken a 7.9% stake in J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP), and the news has lighted a small fire under the shares this...
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Jon OggInvestors love dividends. This one investing component has comprised a major portion of total returns through time. The trend in recent years has been for companies to pay dividends and keep...
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courtesy of MicrosoftManagement inside Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) may be happy to see that their shares are worth more than 3%, versus when they went home for the weekend on Friday. CNBC’s...
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courtesy Dell Inc.You can’t always get what you want, but if you try, you might get what you need. That seems to be the outcome of the deal announced today between Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and...
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courtesy J.C. Penney Co. Inc.There has always been a Wall St. trend for the spotlight to shine on the smartest guy in the room at any given time. Whether they be one hit wonders or masters of...
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Courtesy Herbalife Ltd. Shortly after 11 a.m. ET this morning, Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) announced the KPMG had resigned effective immediately as the nutritional food maker’s accounting firm....
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Courtesy Herbalife Ltd.Shares of Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF) were halted this morning pending a news release. When the news actually hit — The New York Times DealBook blog reported it first — it...
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Jon OggSo far, 2013 has been a great year for equity investors. With both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index trading up in the double-digits, we wanted to take a look at those...
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courtesy of Hewlett-PackardHewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is down on multiple news reports that its board is being shaken up. We would take the other side of this bet and call it good news. CEO Meg...
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courtesy of NetflixNetflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) is playing a serious game of give back after it was the top S&P 500 stock in the first quarter. Shares doubled yet again during the bull market’s...
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Nuance Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) is a great company, and its Dragon Naturally Speaking has a handy lead in the world of speech-to-text software. It is fair to say that its stock has been a...
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ThinkstockWe cannot help but to notice just how active the activist investor community has been. Activist investors are literally influencing hundreds of billions of dollars of value in companies...
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24/7 Wall St. has been delivering readers many lists of stocks that offer upside as the S&P 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average are within striking distance of all-time highs. The DJIA an...
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courtesy Dell Inc.The board of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) set a “go-shop” deadline for one minute after midnight tonight to see if the company could entice a bidder to compete with Dell founder...
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ThinkstockClearwire Corp. (NASDAQ: CLWR) is facing yet another attempt to block the Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) buyout as part of the Softbank deal. A group called Crest Financial is making a...
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