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The Dow Jones Industrial Average has just hit 14,800 on Wednesday for a new all-time high. Call it 14,800.47 after a gain of 127.01 points or 0.87%. The S&P 500 Index just hit a new high of 1,586...
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Most Wall St. firms are divided by the unit that calls on the retail or high net worth client, and the unit that calls on institutional clients. They both generally benefit from the research...
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Wikimedia CommonsIt is probably of little comfort to existing shareholders that Citadel Investment Group is selling its remaining stake in E*Trade Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: ETFC). The near 10% stake...
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ThinkstockYou have heard of all sorts of bubbles in the financial world. There are instances like the housing bubble, a bond bubble, the dot-com bubble, the tech bubble, the private equity bubble,...
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courtesy of BlackberryBlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY) has gone through quite a lot of changes, including a name change from Research In Motion. What is interesting is that its former co-CEO Jim Balsillie...
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Jon OggInsiders are still selling shares. Most investors have heard that Eric Schmidt is selling out of about $2.5 billion worth of Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) shares, but there are many other large...
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ThinkstockInsider selling is starting to get massive before year-end when higher capital gains taxes will kick in. We continue to expect that corporate insiders, venture backers, private equity...
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We are seeing larger insider selling transactions ahead of year-end by many corporate insiders. With higher taxes on capital gains an almost certainty now, insiders are faced with a choice of selling...
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Jeff Bezos, founder, chairman and CEO of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is taking some extra cash out of the company. This may just be spending change for billionaires but this is empire-making money...
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ThinkstockInsiders are using the recent market sell-off to purchase weak shares, at least that is the case for these stocks. Insiders can sell shares for a multitude of reasons. But when they buy...
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Mark Hirschey / Wikimedia CommonsBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) (NYSE: BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings. Many changes had been made in...
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ThinkstockFacebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) is about to get the biggest lock-up expiration of its shares to date. On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 there will be very close to 800 million shares of...
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ThinkstockApparently many executives decided to sell shares right before the presidential election. This is not an assumption that anything is wrong in the companies because insiders can sell shares...
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thinkstockFacebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) did see some key executives sell shares into the lockup expiration last week. Sheryl Sandberg, who is chief operating officer, and often considered the adult...
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There are a number of reasons that insiders and large holders sell shares of public companies. There is really only one reason that insiders and large holders buy shares, and that is because they...
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