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10 Reasons Apple Won’t Pay a Dividend Any Time Soon (AAPL, MSFT, CSCO, NFLX, SIRI, AKAM, TIVO)

Posted: June 10, 2011 at 6:30 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has enjoyed massive growth over the last decade.  It has overcome a near-death experience and transformed itself into the second largest company by market capitalization.  Now ...
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Shareholder Poll: Should Google Fund Low-Income Housing in Hawaii & Other Non-Profit Issues? (GOOG)

Posted: June 8, 2011 at 3:17 pm

Sometimes press releases have the strangest things in them.  Many individuals complain about corporate welfare, but we are curious to know if shareholders actually care about when the companies they ...
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Huge Twist in Cell Tower Wars: Tax Accounting Issues from the SEC (AMT, CCI, SBAC)

Posted: June 3, 2011 at 9:45 am

American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) and Crown Castle International Corp. (NYSE: CCI) are the two major players in the world of cellphone towers.  Go ahead and include 4G too.  This ...
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Sirius XM Trends: Debt-Rating Boost, Short Seller Vendetta, Positive Presentation (SIRI)

Posted: May 26, 2011 at 6:56 am

Sirius XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is far from a company without controversy.  Yesterday came a company shareholder presentation with growth metrics ahead, but Moody's lifted its bond ratings, and ...
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Chinese Accounting Woes Move Up To Large Caps (ACH, AA, CEO, CHU, RENN, LFT, ABAT, CCME, SHZ)

Posted: May 25, 2011 at 10:53 am

Can any accounting out of China be trusted?  This is what prudent investors have to start asking themselves.  Since early this year a new report comes out nearly every week ...
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MLPs Back in Favor As Tax Issues Easing (EPD, KMP, MMP, PAA, KYN, SRV, AMJ, AMLP, MLPN, MLPY, MLPL)

Posted: May 6, 2011 at 11:09 am

Master Limited Partnerships have been under pressure of late, in part because of oil.  The major concern for this sector is not as much oil and energy prices, but Washington ...
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Solar May Still Thrive in Italy, Maybe Germany Too (FSLR, SPWRA, STP, TSL, YGE, CSIQ, TOT, TAN)

Posted: May 6, 2011 at 10:26 am

The Italian government has made official its new regime for solar generation installations in the country. While the new program does scale back government subsidies, it does so over a ...
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Five Stocks That Will Cheer The Flash Crash Anniversary Passage (ACN, AAPL, CNP, EXC, PG)

Posted: May 5, 2011 at 2:31 pm

Friday, May 6, 2011 will mark the one-year anniversary of the 2010 Flash Crash.  The Flash Crash has been blamed on many things and many investors still dispute the true ...
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Berkshire Hathaway Earnings: Insurance Losses Cut Income By More Than Half (BRK-A, BRK-B)

Posted: April 30, 2011 at 11:14 am

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A; BRK-B) is hosting its annual meeting of shareholders today and the company has just released its preliminary earnings report for the first quarter.  As a ...
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Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, Full Preview of Warren Buffett (BRK-A, BRK-B, GS, GE, LZ, COP, KO, PG, WFC, AIG)

Posted: April 27, 2011 at 2:09 pm

This coming weekend will mark the one weekend that the hotels, retailers, and restaurants all look forward to in Omaha, Nebraska... Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(NYSE: BRK-B) has its much-anticipated ...
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Dividend Watch, A Score For Iron Mountain Holders in Restructuring (IRM, BRK-A)

Posted: April 19, 2011 at 10:07 am

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) is further capitulating to Elliott Management in an activist move.  Its CEO left under pressure last week and the restructuring addresses what Elliott had previously proposed ...
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Americans Ambivalent About Tax Rates

Posted: April 18, 2011 at 6:00 am

Americans are divided about whether their tax rates are too high or about right. That has to make it harder for members of Congress as they try to decide whether ...
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Avoiding Common Tax Mistakes

Posted: April 17, 2011 at 6:18 pm

Most taxpayers get an image of a medieval torturer cracking a whip on some poor, innocent person in their heads when they think about the IRS or taxes in general. ...
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IMF Says US Must Decrease Debt, Voters Disagree

Posted: April 13, 2011 at 5:01 am

The IMF's new Fiscal Monitor says "The United States will require significant deficit cuts in 2012 and 2013 to meet their commitments over the next few years. A downpayment in the ...
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SEC Operational Plans If Government Closes Down (NYX, NDAQ, CME, ICE, CBOE)

Posted: April 8, 2011 at 11:50 am

If you are like the rest of who are upset about some 'minor market issues' like Bernie Madoff, Raj, Octopussy, and the dozens of other extreme violations of securities laws, ...
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