Corporate Governance
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Imagine if telecom giants such as AT&T and Verizon could break up into an operating company and into a real estate investment trust (REIT). This sounds crazy, but now there is a precedent.
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Windstream Holdings is transforming its structure by spinning off assets into a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT). Shareholders seem to be enjoying the news.
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Shares of Tyson Foods have bounced around Monday morning as investors try to decide whether the company's earnings and its plans to issue more equity are good or bad news.
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Amazon.com has been one of the greatest growth stories of the current generation. The problem is that all of this growth just hasn't ever equated to significant profits.
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ThinkstockAs usual, when the earnings reporting window is open for companies, often the window for insiders to buy and sell stock opens up as well. With well over half of the S&P 500 companies...
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A labor group made up of employees of Walmart has been pushing the company for nearly two years to raise its minimum annual wage for full-time employees to $25,000.
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When Wal-Mart named Doug McMillon to replace retiring CEO Mike Duke eight months ago, it was only a matter of time before Walmart U.S. chief Bill Simon left in search of greener pastures.
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The CEO of one of the worst-run retailers in American is joining the board of another company in the same category. Joseph Magnacca of RadioShack is among the new board members of American Apparel.
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Courtesy Research in Motion Ltd.BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ: BBRY) has a turnaround that remains caught between a rock and a hard place. The consumer move into iPhone and Android smartphones has...
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Herbalife remains one of the most controversial stocks on Wall Street and Main Street. That controversy is set to come to yet another head on Tuesday, July 22, 2014.
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VMware could finally find itself independent of such strong control from former parent and super-majority shareholder EMC, but only with odds of "maybe" for investors and bookies.
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ThinkstockAfter a week that had almost every possible component for investors, from good earnings to a steep sell-off to numerous geopolitical issues, there was still some sizable insider...
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The appointment of Susan L. Wagner, a senior executive of investment firm BlackRock, to Apple's board of directors is a reminder of how few woman sit on corporate boards.
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We already know where the ax is going to fall most harshly in the 18,000 job cuts that Microsoft has announced -- Nokia. It did not say where the rest of the cuts would come from.
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In a memo written last week, CEO Satya Nadella telegraphed staff cuts now that Microsoft had added some 25,000 new employees as part of the acquisition of the smartphone business from Nokia.
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