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Questions Resurface Over At Diamond Foods (DMND)

Posted: December 12, 2011 at 8:44 am

Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND) had a huge day on Friday after a research report indicated that the company's accounting review would not yield much in irregularities in payments to ...
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GE Issues Big Surprise Dividend Hike… The 2012 Model Dividend Portfolio Grows Again (GE, BRK-A)

Posted: December 9, 2011 at 11:43 am

24/7 Wall St. has just this week released its 2012 Model Dividend Portfolio and General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) was one of the members of that dividend portfolio.  The conglomerate ...
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Salvation For Diamond Foods, Perhaps (DMND, PG)

Posted: December 9, 2011 at 11:23 am

Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND) is acting as though it is set to have a full accounting resolution with almost no impact at all from its ongoing review.  This may ...
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The Corzine Subpoena… Future of Segregated Funds Hangs in the Wind

Posted: December 2, 2011 at 10:39 am

Jon Corzine was supposed to be the poster boy for modern-day finance... From the King of Finance, to New Jersey's governor, and back to Wall Street.  Now Corzine is just the King of ...
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Most Valuable Stadiums in America

Posted: November 30, 2011 at 6:36 am

Corporations can spend hundreds of million dollars just so they can put their name on a major league sports stadiums. 24/7 Wall St. looked that the 13 largest stadium-naming rights ...
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Farming Pays Big: Higher Income & Asset Values Drive Farming in 2011 into 2012

Posted: November 29, 2011 at 6:31 pm

The next time you sing "Old McDonald Had a Farm" you might want to consider that it is really "Rich Man McDonald" if the USDA report is as clear as ...
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Beyond the T-Mobile Charge… AT&T’s Big Dividend Conundrum (T, VZ, S)

Posted: November 25, 2011 at 12:23 pm

AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) has been in the news because of what is turning into a more and more likely failed acquisition of T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom.  While a $4 ...
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Oddworld: Diamond Foods, From Probe to M&A to Suicide (DMND)

Posted: November 23, 2011 at 10:37 am

Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND) has gone from one of the great growth stories to a very troubled company in a very short period of time.  From a prior walnut accounting ...
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LDK Solar, Mathematically Bankrupt Without China (LDK, YGE, STP, TSL, JASO)

Posted: November 22, 2011 at 12:05 pm

Following the terrible earnings reports just out from a half-dozen of China’s largest solar PV makers, it is mathematically possible that at least one of these companies is at the ...
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Should Jefferies Be Able to Sue Over Malicious Attacks? (JEF)

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 2:45 pm

The attack on Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) is unfortunately reminiscent of larger implosions of firms formerly named Lehman and Bear Stearns.  It almost does not seem to matter what Jefferies ...
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The 13 Countries That Own the World’s Gold

Posted: November 17, 2011 at 7:41 pm

Central banks are contributing to world gold demand. The latest data from the World Gold Council indicate even more changes among the nations holding the most in gold reserves. Those are ...
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Chimera Accounting Review, A Lesson For Other Mortgage REITs (CIM, NLY, AGNC, HTS, MORT)

Posted: November 15, 2011 at 11:01 am

Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) is the mortgage REIT which we used to dub "the vulture mortgage REIT" because of its targets in lower-rated mortgage-backed securities. Usually a delay in a ...
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Double-Digit Price Gains for Thanksgiving 2011, Inflation in Turkey & Gas

Posted: November 10, 2011 at 3:10 pm

Everyone loves the holidays and spending time off with the family (well, almost everyone), but no seems to like it when the cost of the holidays is much higher than ...
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Japanese Woes Killing Japan’s Blue Chips (OCPNY, TM, HMC, CAJ, HIT, SNE, PC, NMR)

Posted: November 8, 2011 at 1:29 pm

The realm of global geopolitics is going beyond nerve-racking in many instances.  It is not just the U.S. that is being held hostage by Europe as Japan has a pricey ...
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David Versus Goliath at Green Mountain (GMCR)

Posted: November 8, 2011 at 12:17 pm

Short sellers are an interesting lot, particularly when they go public and are vocal against a company.  In many cases they can rack some serious damage to a share price.  ...
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