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Should Former Groupon CEO Mason Pay Shareholders?

Posted: March 1, 2013 at 6:17 am

Groupon Inc. (NASDAQ: GRPN) ex-CEO Andrew Mason has a chance to pay back some of the stock losses suffered by his shareholders, based on his huge holdings in the public ...
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Is Larry Ellison Recreating The Fantasy Island TV Series?

Posted: February 27, 2013 at 2:56 pm

Larry Ellison, the billionaire founder of Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL), is adding yet another odd purchase to his vast private holdings. His purchase of megayachts, racing yachts, multiple airplanes, mansions, ...
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Apollo SEC Filing: Moves from Being on Notice to Probation

Posted: February 25, 2013 at 6:14 pm

Apollo Group Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL) is showing some more negative news in the fields of online education and for-profit education. The company submitted and SEC filing on Monday showing that ...
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Microbrewers and Craft Beer Makers Raising Millions and Millions of Dollars

Posted: February 25, 2013 at 2:54 pm

If you have read 24/7 Wall St. for a while, you know that we love to cover popular topics and the financial numbers behind them. This is from demographic trends, economic trends, ...
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Beyond Meredith Whitney — More Negative Muni Trends Expected in 2013

Posted: February 21, 2013 at 11:50 am

Meredith Whitney was applauded for her call about the impending doom of the banking sector ahead of the recession, but she has been criticized ever since her call for billions ...
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Large Shareholder Group Calls to Split CEO and Chairman Role of Jamie Dimon at J.P. Morgan

Posted: February 20, 2013 at 11:15 am

Jamie Dimon of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) used to be a Teflon CEO. Now we have a shareholder action looking to split the role of chairman and ...
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Chesapeake CYA Board Review Exonerates McClendon

Posted: February 20, 2013 at 9:55 am

Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) has been the subject of many media and shareholder attacks after the news of well participation by co-founder Aubrey McClendon surfaced in 2012. Prior to ...
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Bank of America

Bank of America CEO Pay Hiked to $12 Million

Posted: February 20, 2013 at 6:50 am

Bank of America Corp.'s (NYSE: BAC) chief executive officer, Brian Moynihan, has been rewarded appropriately for a combination of layoffs, settlements of legal issues with the government, which have cost ...
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Carnival Triumph Woes Punish Passengers Worse Than Investors

Posted: February 14, 2013 at 3:05 pm

Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL) is a company that is having more issues than might seem to be fair, but this is the risk of catering to hundreds or thousands of ...
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What If Michael Dell Doesn’t Really Want to Buy Dell? This Could Be “The Dell Put!”

Posted: February 14, 2013 at 11:30 am

The proposed management-led buyout of Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is far from being without controversy. When the deal was still in the rumor stage, we came up with a maximum ...
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Obama and Japan’s Abe Press Minimum Wage — Danger to Economies

Posted: February 13, 2013 at 6:40 am

As Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pressed the nation's largest companies to raise the minimum wage, one reaction summed up the resistance likely to face a similar proposal by President ...
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Twenty Sinful Companies to Give Up for Lent

Posted: February 13, 2013 at 6:39 am

As Fat Tuesday quickly turns into Ash Wednesday, Lent will take place from Wednesday, February 13 to Saturday, March 30 in 2013. It may not seem like much on the ...
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The Best Conglomerate Stock for the Rest of 2013: Value, Yield, Upside

Posted: February 8, 2013 at 8:30 am

The markets may no longer be in a straight line higher, but 2013 is off to a great start. After taking a look at various Dow Jones Industrial Average components ...
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Warren Buffett’s Best Stocks of 2013 Helping Him Beat DJIA/S&P 500

Posted: February 5, 2013 at 1:23 pm

2013 is yet another year getting off to a great start for stocks, and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) is actually outperforming the broad stock market so far in 2013. ...
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Many Big DJIA Dividend Hikes Expected Very Soon

Posted: February 5, 2013 at 12:00 pm

24/7 Wall St. is still a big fan of dividends. What is even better than a high dividend yield is when companies with solid dividends raise their dividend payouts. Dividend ...
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