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The higher the market goes, the more the natural inclination for many that have good gains to take profit and move to the sidelines. However, many investors are starting to realize that all we have...
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Jon OggA fresh report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute is signaling that most Americans are going to be retiring with nowhere close to having enough assets and savings for retirement. The...
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Fifth Third Bancorp (NASDAQ: FITB) is confirming last week’s news that the bank stress tests and the Federal Reserve’s Comprehensive Capital Analysis & Review is allowing for a higher bank...
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Wikimedia CommonsJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) was a bank we already knew was effectively denied permission to raise its dividend. If you have tracked the stress tests and the return of...
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ThinkstockThe debate over how America’s largest companies use cash will pick up again. Moody’s Investor Services released a study that forecasts how big the cash balances will be at some of...
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ThinkstockIn this morning’s top analyst upgrades and downgrades from 24/7 Wall St. (released each morning), one of the top upgrades was in Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ). It was an upgrade...
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ThinkstockThe looming risk (or likely fact) that interest rates will rise has been on the mind of investors and Wall St. analysts and pundits for quite some time. Most will concede that the Treasury...
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Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsThe stock market has come a long way since the dark days of March 2009. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been up 10 days in a row. The last time we experienced...
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Jon OggArgus is truly considered to be independent research firm, so it is not full of the traditional possible conflicts on interest seen in other Wall Street broker sell-side drive research. The...
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Jon OggThe Dow Jones Industrial Average has now risen for nine consecutive days and is now at a record high close of 14,455.28. We have not confirmed the exact period but this appears to be the...
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Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC) is out with its so-called RIC-Report for its clients. There is good news for equity investors, but not such good news for investors in municipal bonds, corporate...
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Jon OggShort sellers have continued to by and large increase their short-sale bets against the quality high-yield dividend stocks. The price gains must lead short sellers to believe that the yields...
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ThinkstockLexington Realty Trust (NYSE: LXP) has joined the waves of other companies raising capital by secondary stock offerings. The single tenant-REIT has priced an underwritten registered public...
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General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) was making key dividend news this morning because in the Jeff Immelt annual letter to shareholders the company promised $18 billion to be returned to shareholders this...
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Jon OggIt may be the weekend, and the DJIA hit a new high this last week, but there is no such thing as any rest for the wicked. 24/7 Wall St. has identified 13 must-read weekend stock stories for...
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