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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has recovered sharply today from its lows, although it may be on more noise than news. The company at its annual meeting reelected its seven board members. There were market...
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The Fed has started the end of the near-zero rate cycle cycle, sort of. But yesterday’s sudden discount rate hike to 0.75% from 0.50% is almost certainly a prelude to the Fed Funds rate hike(s)...
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It seems that the realm of mergers and acquisitions is not dead when it comes to property deals. Simon Property Group, Inc. (NYSE: SPG) has made a formal offer to acquire General Growth Properties,...
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Companies seemed to prefer share buybacks in 2007 and 2008, and maybe part of 2009. Why not, if the stock is cheap? But then 2009 came and many companies were derailed by the recession and that...
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While we were getting ready to post our next round of large companies which we think will be hiking their dividends in 2010, one of the companies beat us to the punch. Earlier this week we noted...
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Over what we saw during the recession, 2009 was the year that dividends were cut down to effect cash conservation to get through the recession. In fact, the dividend cuts may have saved many more...
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2010 is turning out to be the year that big companies return to hiking dividends. In just the last week we have seen dividend hikes from Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM), Boardwalk...
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The refining industry has been under pressure for some time. It seems that rising prices were not a shoe-in for windfall profits at all. A rapid drop in oil prices was also not a recipe for...
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Today could be called IPO Friday. We have four confirmed priced deals, and likely a fifth. The IPO’s involve Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) for its Symetra Financial (NYSE: SYA),...
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Linear Technology Corp. (NASDAQ: LLTC) is actually the first of the real semiconductor sector stocks to report earnings this January for the quarter-end of December 2009. The maker of linear...
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Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) has approved the spin off of Madison Square Garden to Cablevision shareholders. Madison Square Garden is the home venue of the New York Knicks and...
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We have started taking a look at the 30 stocks comprising the Dow Jones Industrial Average to see which stocks had the most implied upside of all DJIA components. We have taken a snapshot of the...
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2009 is over, for better or worse. Now it is time to look ahead. We wanted to look for the best top stock picks for 2010 from our partners and from key financial websites. We compiled all of...
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There was an interesting filing for an initial public offering that was put in at the SEC after most investors, brokers, advisors, and traders had already headed home either for Christmas of for the...
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AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) has done what we expected would occur at some point soon. Despite some bad company public relations Friday over its network, the company raised its quarterly dividend. The...
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