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There is a long-standing debate over the effect and impact of share buyback plans. What is not up for debate is that many companies have given big updates or announced new buyback plans in the month...
2010 has been a positive year for the markets.  IPOs and secondary offerings have been plentiful, debt offerings have been plentiful, and restructurings continue.  Many spin-offs have been...
Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) may be a down and out carrier in the wireless wars against Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) and AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T).  What is interesting is that a...
There had been a rumor that General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) was going to hike its dividend again, and that rumor turned out to be true.  GE just announced that it has raised its quarterly...
Better economies do not always help all players.  The grocery business is already one which operates on razor-thin margins, so any hiccup can cause great pain for investors in the food segment of...
Helen of Troy Limited (NASDAQ: HELE) is an unknown stock to many investors, but that appears to be changing after what most investors would skim over as news too small to matter.  A merger...
The U.S. Treasury has exited its stake in Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C).  Normally you would expect shares to drop when you see 2.4 billion shares sold out or so, but that is not the case here.  Citi...
Last week we identified the ten Warren Buffett investments with the most implied upside.  But we also found that there were many Buffett investments in Berkshire Hathaway Inc.  (NYSE:BRK.A) which...
Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) is getting clipped after its earnings report and guidance is not as rewarding to some of the highest bulls out there.  An obvious secondary offering which...
Investors have tried for years to follow the strategy of Warren Buffett, considered by many to be the greatest investor in history. That’s ironic given how little he seems to care about ups and...
Being Blockbuster must be just awful now.  We picked this as one of several key brands which would disappear, and it has already met our criteria for disappearing because it filed for bankruptcy and...
Earlier this month, while everyone’s attention was focused on the midterm elections, the US Department of Education published proposed new rules governing access to federal direct and federally...
Picking stocks for a decade is no easy task.  It might as well be for a lifetime because there probably will be two more bear markets and two more bull markets between now and then. Investors...
Ambac Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: ABK) did what was close to inevitable: it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company said that it was unable to raise additional capital as an...
The most common method of valuing stocks is the good old P/E ratio that measures the share price versus the trailing 12-months earnings.  For many tech and biotech stocks, that means that when some...