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Investors usually flock to defensive stock names during a bear market or when they are concerned that the market may not run much more. Whether this is becoming a bear market or a bull market at...
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The defense sector has been under pressure as the future military spending is moving away from the giant expense items. This week’s news was that $100 billion is the target goal to take out of...
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Defensive stocks are supposed to hold up in down stock markets. That isn’t so today. In our list of 17 defensive stocks we routinely track, none were positive today. On average, the defensive...
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Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. (NASDAQ: CTSH) was featured this week in our daily version of the Top Day Trader Alerts due its price and volume spike after earnings. The highs in the stock...
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SandRidge Energy Inc. (NYSE: SD) is moving from a case of being grossly oversold to a case where the situation is becoming almost obscene. The stock is getting crushed after its earnings report...
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Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) may perhaps be the longest turnaround story of the modern era in technology and communications. For about 15 years it has laid off workers, restructured operations,...
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2010 may be a directionless year for the stock markets so far, but shares of conglomerates are outperforming and more upside is expected. The five largest conglomerates we follow are all higher for...
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Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC) probably just managed to lose the patience of every last shareholder it has after posting poor earnings. Earnings were in-line with estimates, but revenues were...
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Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) has been a long and painful investment for thousands of shareholders who have held shares in hopes that this turnaround stock can eventually turn around. ...
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eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is finding that growth has peaked in being an online auction monopoly. The online auction giant reported earnings of $0.40 EPS gross on $2.22 billion in revenues. On an...
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Legg Mason Inc. (NYSE: LM) portfolio manager Bill Miller has gone out on a limb in his July investing outlook. Although Miller’s observations do have many truths when it comes to value investing,...
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Maybe some turnarounds just can’t turn around. Or maybe they just can’t ‘stay turned around.’ Dearborn Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ: DEAR) was an unlikely bank success a quarter ago and the...
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Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) shares are up today on news that the Nokia-Siemens JV, owned by Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) and by Siemens AG (NYSE: SI), is paying about $1.2 billion for Motorola’s network...
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Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: PLA) saw its shares hit a 52-week high today, although long-term shareholders who were in before the last two years are still finding themselves in the ‘long and...
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Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F), America’s only major automaker not in debt to taxpayers, is seeing its shares gain this morning after it paid off more than $4 billion in debt. Citigroup also has chimed...
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