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E*TRADE FINANCIAL Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) is a smart enough company that it should have known better about one issue. It was smart on another. The troubled online broker has finally announced...
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CIT Group, Inc. (NYSE: CIT) is out of bankruptcy, has John Thain as its new CEO, and is trying to get on with life in ‘the new normal’ in a sector where making money is going to be more of a...
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PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) is the latest of the big companies to hike their dividend payouts this morning. We have not kept an exact tally, but this is getting close to 70 of the S&P 500...
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American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is seeing a significant trading event today. Today’s news is rumor-driven on top of related news-driven trading. What is odd is that there is now...
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24/7 Wall Street has a real-time index we keep of the 500 largest market caps of US equities. This is The 24/7 Wall St. Real-Time 500. Of these, the 23 highest are deemed mega-cap stocks as they...
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Not surprisingly, CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) filed with the SEC a form NT 10-K… That is a non-timely annual report notification. The company said it would be unable to file its annual report for...
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MBIA Inc. (NYSE: MBI) reported some mixed earnings after the close. The only reason it even really matters is because Radian Group Inc. (NYSE: RDN) has such better earnings than expected last...
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McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) has enjoyed the status of being the greatest restaurant story in history. In our lifetime, or in any for that matter, the company grew from a start-up to a Dow Jones...
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Everyone, or at least most everyone, loves dividends. While some investors love share buybacks, dividends seem to be the new way we are seeing for companies to reward shareholders. The good news...
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Companies seemed to prefer share buybacks in 2007 and 2008, and maybe part of 2009. Why not, if the stock is cheap? But then 2009 came and many companies were derailed by the recession and that...
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Over what we saw during the recession, 2009 was the year that dividends were cut down to effect cash conservation to get through the recession. In fact, the dividend cuts may have saved many more...
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2010 is turning out to be the year that big companies return to hiking dividends. In just the last week we have seen dividend hikes from Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM), Boardwalk...
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A war is beginning to take place over Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS). Ron Burkle, a well-known activist investor who heads various activist investor funds under the name Yucaipa, is trying to...
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Potash Corp. (NYSE: POT) has been one of the amazing companies in an amazing sector, or at least it was back when the developing world was moving from one meal to two meals a day. The leaders in...
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The refining industry has been under pressure for some time. It seems that rising prices were not a shoe-in for windfall profits at all. A rapid drop in oil prices was also not a recipe for...
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