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CME Lowers Energy & Metals Margin Trading Requirements (CME, GLD, USO, SLV, JJC)

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 5:37 pm

CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) is going to make it cheaper for traders to trade energy and metals futures, something which could make it easier and cheaper for traders, speculators, ...
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Caesars, A Sham Of An IPO… Beware The Ides of March (CZR, APO, GS, WYNN, LVS)

Posted: February 8, 2012 at 11:41 am

Caesars Entertainment Corporation (NASDAQ: CZR) is beyond weird when it comes to initial public offerings.  This was one of our TOP 17 IPOS TO WATCH IN 2012.  We also make ...
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Political Fodder… Private Equity Firms Are Hiring!

Posted: February 8, 2012 at 9:55 am

Private equity firms are bad and evil because they fire workers to juice profits for billionaires who get to pay low tax rates!  Is that the right logic?  What if ...
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Should Banks Have Overdraft Fees? (JPM, ZION, BAC, CBSH, WFC)

Posted: February 7, 2012 at 3:48 pm

While not breaking news at this point, there is something that is front and center in banking when it comes to overdraft fees.  To many consumers, overdraft fees are simply ...
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Caesars IPO… From Odd To Just Bizarre (CZR)

Posted: February 3, 2012 at 3:02 pm

Caesars Entertainment Corporation is supposed to be one of the Top 17 IPOs to Watch in 2012.  That remains the case, but it is not because we have such admiration ...
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Facebook Full IPO Filing Details (FB, MS, GS, MSFT, TROW, ZNGA, GSVC, IPG)

Posted: February 1, 2012 at 5:29 pm

Facebook, Inc. has now filed its paperwork with the SEC which will allow the social networking giant to conduct an initial public offering.  It should be no real surprise that ...
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Can New CFO & Split Structure Save The Bank of Ireland? (IRE)

Posted: February 1, 2012 at 11:52 am

The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) may have been a dead stock (or ADR) by most counts.  The recapitalization and dilution process here has been almost as uncanny as the bailouts ...
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Wal-Mart Makes Big Management Changes, Women Moving Up The Ranks (WMT)

Posted: January 20, 2012 at 9:51 am

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is making a series of management changes today.  While this is not the CEO level of the whole company, CEO Mike Duke noted, "Current Sam's ...
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Risks Abound In Express Scripts & Medco Merger (MHS, ESRX, T, CHSI, MNA)

Posted: January 19, 2012 at 3:04 pm

The Medco Health Solutions Inc. (NYSE: MHS) and Express Scripts Inc. (NASDAQ: ESRX) merger saga is one which may go down in the financial history books for one of the ...
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Top Brands in 2011 (KO, IBM, MSFT, GOOG, GE, MCD, INTC, AAPL, DIS, HPQ, NOK, CSCO, TM, AMZN, F, HMC, DE)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 9:24 am

Brand consultancy Interbrand has issued its latest report on brand value, and while the top five did not change, a gap is opening between the fourth and fifth place finishers.  ...
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Eastman Kodak Faces NYSE Listing Notice… The Failure Clock Countdown (EK)

Posted: January 3, 2012 at 4:12 pm

Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE: EK) was recently named by us as a stock which is one of thirteen stocks unlikely to survive 2012 in its current form.  A very low ...
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The 13 Worst Big Stock Stories Of 2011 (BAC, DMND, FSLR, GMCR, HPQ, IPSU, SLV, KV-A, EGPT, MCP, NFLX, RIMM, SHLD)

Posted: December 30, 2011 at 12:02 pm

2011 was more or less a wash for stock performance when it was all said and done.  There were several great stories and there were many duds.  24/7 Wall St. ...
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Ten Stocks Unlikely To Survive 2012 (ALIM, AMR, APP, EK, ENER, FFN, NRTLQ, PNCL, RDDY, YRCWD)

Posted: December 30, 2011 at 8:15 am

Calling on the death of a company is no fun task.  Some companies cannot get it right and it is amazing how some companies can hold on to a status ...
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CSC Contract Woes… Is Dividend Now At Risk? (CSC)

Posted: December 27, 2011 at 10:36 am

If you ever run a "value screen" in the world of stock strategies, Computer Sciences Corporation (NYSE: CSC) shows up all the time as a "cheap tech stock."  Unfortunately, this ...
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Even More DJIA Dividend Hikes Coming Soon (BA, GE, DIS, T, PFE, CSCO, KO, XOM, IBM, JNJ, JPM, MMM, WMT, DVY, VIG, PFM, HDV)

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 8:01 am

Throughout December we have been giving updates on dividends that will rise in the coming days and weeks from the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks. Many have already come ...
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