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General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is still on the path toward a higher dividend.  It is also may begin buying back stock, taking other shareholder-friendly initiatives, and maybe even making...
Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) keeps beating and raising estimates.  The PC and technology giant just reported earnings of $1.09 in non-GAAP EPS on revenues of $30.85 billion.  Thomson Reuters...
Nordstrom, Inc. (NYSE: JWN) has raised its dividend, and the raise is substantial even if the yield is not.  The higher-end and luxury apparel retail department store hiked its dividend from $0.16...
We are not seeing the floodgate of dividend hikes as we had seen in earlier weeks this year, but hikes, talk of hikes, and other big dividend news changes are out this week.  The true dividend hikes...
ProLogis (NYSE: PLD) is already very well known as a REIT in commercial space for warehouse-type of projects for storage, warehousing, distribution, and office parks.  Now, it is going to be known...
There are three things investors traditionally want after making huge gains when they still want to hold stocks.  They want stocks that have dividends and may want ‘value stocks.’  But the...
This weekend came both the Annual Meeting of Shareholders for Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, NYSE: BRK-B) and the quarterly earnings report.  So you have seen the stock market’s massive run...
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) held its 2010 annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday in Houston.  24/7 Wall St. was given a private interview with Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of GE,  before the...
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has held its annual shareholder meeting today.  With at least a bit of a surprise on our part, there was no formal action announced on the dividend.  Not yet. ...
Have you noticed how so many commodity rallies in gold and oil get stopped in their tracks on what might seem as secondary or even tertiary cause and effect?  This has been something very defined in...
2010 may be the year of many things, but it is so far becoming the year of dividend hikes.  The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) has just joined the dividend hike brigade with its...
As far as General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) and earnings, we felt as though GE was going have to beat earnings expectations handily to keep the investing public interested after the run up we have...
Just yesterday with so many stocks hitting new 52-week highs, we noticed that 10 of the 30 DJIA components had hit new 52-week highs.  Two of those were Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) and...
This weekend’s roster of the Unusual Suspects is back to earnings, although there are many other key stocks to watch out for this coming week.  We did see a very brief hit of 11,000 in the DJIA in...
We often cover companies raising dividends and announcing new stock buyback plans.  We did see some dividend hikes this week, but there are also many unique dividend stories from this week which...