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Executives at companies may sell shares of their company for a myriad of reasons, but generally when they buy shares it means that they think the stock is going to ultimately go much higher than at...
Investors couldn’t have missed seeing the recent waves of new corporate share buyback plans. What they may have not noticed as clearly is the increasing trend in “legal insider trading” —...
It is no secret that the market volatility has many investors rattled.  What is very counter-intuitive is that many companies are continuing with most or all of their investor friendly plans...
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) has sold off enough!  That is what the company CEO is saying, and he’s putting his money where is mouth is.  A Form-4 SEC filing this morning shows that James Gorman...
If you have been a reader of 24/7 Wall St. for long, you know that we appreciate companies that pay dividends just about as much the investors who buy companies because of their great dividends. ...
George Soros is getting out of the hedge fund business.  Oddly enough, the regulatory climate under Dodd-Frank and other new legislation are the major reasons cited more than his age.  That seems...
News Corp (NYSE: NWS) has filed a document with the SEC that says it will buy in as may as $5 billion of its shares. The market cap of the company has dropped $7 billion over the last four days to to...
Reports have been out that Paulson & Co. had suffered severe losses in a Chinese forestry company called Sino-Forest.  Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson may not have been hurt as badly...
In 1926 F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” Today, we don’t call people rich because that smacks of class warfare. Instead...
Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) shareholders had plenty of concerns even before Facebook announced that it was going to get into video delivery of selected movies.  In a SWOT analysis, the Facebook...
The markets are currently shaky and investors are looking for cover.  While many seek defensive stocks and while many seek high dividends to offer equity exposure with some safety, one area that...
Relational is going after L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: LLL).  From May 25 to June 16, Relational Investors and its affiliates have acquired enough stock to become the company’s top...
The pace at which the market trades stocks, bonds, currencies, and futures seems to have once again become faster than anyone could have ever imagined.  Forget a few hundred automated trades a...
Cost Plus Inc. (NASDAQ: CPWM) is one company which we might generally skip due to its size and volume.  The insider buying of late has been too large to ignore.  This is one of the retailers that...
Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is bucking a trend.  The company has just announced a follow-on offering of 5.3 million shares of common stock.  Amazingly, the shares rallied on the news because...