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Monthly Archives: June 2011

Dividend Alternatives From High Yield Funds (HYG, JNK, PHIGX, USHYX, DVHYX, HIO, DHF, HYT)

Posted: June 8, 2011 at 8:06 am

We have been screening our universe of the high-yield dividends for investors now that investors are growing more concerned each day and each week.   Now we are looking at junk ...
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Playing Defensive With Industrial and Defense Dividend Players (LMT, EMR, GD, MMM, HON)

Posted: June 8, 2011 at 7:45 am

When economic softness spooks high-flying stocks, solid companies with good histories, solid return on equity, and above average dividends are a handy remedy.  We screened five companies in the industrial ...
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America’s Fastest and Slowest Growing State Economies

Posted: June 8, 2011 at 6:51 am

Every state posted GDP growth between 2000 and 2010, according to the latest U.S Department of Commerce data, which was released earlier this week. The growth rates, however, were very ...
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The Five Markets Apple Already Dominates

Posted: June 8, 2011 at 6:47 am

On June 6, Apple announced its new storage service, iCloud. The platform will combine application services on multiple kinds of devices with a seamlessly integrated online, cloud storage system. The ...
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Starvation By The Numbers

Posted: June 8, 2011 at 6:38 am

The UN Food and Agricultural Organization issued its biannual Food Outlook. Everyone from commodities traders to those who follow the news only occasionally knows what it says. Food prices are ...
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World Bank: The Economic Crisis Is Over

Posted: June 8, 2011 at 6:36 am

The World Bank published its new Global Economic Prospects 2011. The initial message in the report was "The financial crisis for most developing countries is over." That statement must be ...
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Short Take: America Stops Looking For Workers

Posted: June 8, 2011 at 6:32 am

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its "Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey" for April. The top-line conclusion was: There were 3.0 million job openings on the last business day ...
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Media Digest (6/8/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 8, 2011 at 6:31 am

The acting head of the IMF said that the US does not need stimulus because exports and disposable income will lift GDP. (Reuters) Facebook's facial recognition technology is increasing worries ...
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Bubble Exit: Insiders Keep Dumping Molycorp Shares (MCP)

Posted: June 7, 2011 at 5:12 pm

Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) still appears to be on the backside of a bubble in rare earth elements and rare earth oxides.  The company has already seen insider selling after ...
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SunPower… Is Lower Earnings Guidance Good? Blame Italy (SPWRA, TOT)

Posted: June 7, 2011 at 4:31 pm

Lower guidance is supposed to be bad, right?  While that is normally the case, it seems as though guidance from SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWRA) is acceptable enough despite the margin ...
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Ben Bernanke Keeps Economic Downgrade-Lite & Inflation-Lite Outlook

Posted: June 7, 2011 at 4:02 pm

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke gave his first real speech today at the International Monetary Conference in Atlanta, Georgia in weeks.  He argued that the economic downgrade persists, as does the ...
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Consumer Credit Rose Again, But Not Where We Thought

Posted: June 7, 2011 at 3:33 pm

You might not know it by the current economic data, but consumer credit keeps rising.  We figured that a late Easter would drive credit up at the end of the ...
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Cliffs Stock Ignores Pending Secondary Offering Entirely (CLF)

Posted: June 7, 2011 at 3:12 pm

How many companies can announce that they are raising cash and see shares rise or even remain flat going into the pricing of the offering?  Not many, but don't tell ...
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Doubting Thomas Visits Tiffany Buyout (TIF, BRK-A, COH)

Posted: June 7, 2011 at 1:46 pm

Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) has not  noticed that there have been five weeks of selling off in the broader equity markets nor that the economic data has faltered.  Shares ...
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China, Agriculture and Corn (ADM, DE, POT, MOS, CORN, MOO, DBA)

Posted: June 7, 2011 at 1:19 pm

About 94% of the US corn crop is now in the ground, and that fact, along with other news, has put some recent pressure on corn prices and on stock ...
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