Dividends and Buybacks
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ThinkstockThe move to 2.53% in the 10-year Treasury is still near the lower end of the range of 1.5% to 5.1% since 2003. Of significance to the master limited partnership (MLP) analysts at Deutsche...
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ThinkstockGiven the stock market’s long run since the post-election 2012 lows, and following yesterday’s rout, now might be a good time to start looking at the top large cap stocks that are...
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courtesy of OracleOracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) was supposed to have big news out around its earnings. We will cover the earnings of course, but the corporate governance issues are going to dwarf the...
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General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) may have come back handily from the recession and it may have the highest dividend yield of all major conglomerate stocks. That does not mean that Wall Street will...
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courtesy of NBN at German WikipediaThe same domestic trend has been in place for years, with declining cigarette case volumes yet higher and higher dividends from the big tobacco companies. The...
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ThinkstockShip Finance International Ltd. (NYSE: SFL) is seeing shares take it on the chin on Tuesday morning after news that the company is planning to sell some 8 million shares in a secondary...
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ThinkstockLike many firms on Wall Street, technology is a major theme for the balance of the year. Deutsche Bank A.G. (NYSE: DB) launched its “tech enduring eight” basket of stocks to buy...
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ThinkstockIt seems that investors suddenly have grown to dislike dividend-paying stocks, if you have been watching many of the riskier, high-dividend and high-payout sectors while interest rates have...
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ThinkstockOver the past five weeks, the 10-year Treasury bond yield has increased by over one-half of one percent from 1.66% to 2.17%. The overall equity market has rallied 3.8% during this stretch...
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courtesy of General ElectricGeneral Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) had been trading up marginally during Friday morning, but news of the company’s dividend is not exactly creating any new interest. GE...
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Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: SWHC) is showing that gun sales are still booming. The firearm manufacturer reported that its preliminary sales for the quarter ending on April 30,...
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ThinkstockThe United States Treasury has just sold $13 billion in 30-year Treasury Bonds. This “long bond” auction was expected to be highly watched because of the recent rise in interest rates...
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ThinkstockWas Meredith Whitney’s prediction about municipal and state bankruptcies more reality than she was attacked for? The ratings team of Standard & Poor’s issued a substantial downgrade...
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ThinkstockSeaWorld Entertainment Inc. (NYSE: SEAS) is still a fairly new public company since it launched its IPO just in April. Shares are handily higher as well, and now shareholders are getting...
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Jon OggShort sellers could have cleaned up by betting against the high dividend stocks in May and into June. Investors got a whiff of what rising interest rates might mean to their premium dividend...
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