Posts related to ‘Consumer Product’

J&J Manages to Beat Earnings Despite Currency Drag

Posted: April 16, 2013 at 8:05 am

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) has now reported its first-quarter results, showing an 8.5% gain in sales to $17.5 billion, and earnings of $4.1 billion on a normalized earnings basis ...
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Bitcoin Craze Highlights Intrinsic Value of Gold and Silver (GLD, SLV, EBAY, AMZN)

Posted: April 12, 2013 at 11:00 am

If you have been following the coverage of Bitcoin this week, you have seen a frenzy level come about. The reality is that someone is trying to tell you that ...
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Consumer Sentiment Takes a Dive

Posted: April 12, 2013 at 10:10 am

The Reuters/University of Michigan report on consumer sentiment is out for April. Sentiment took a big hit, falling to 72.3. Bloomberg was expecting a reading of 79.0, and Dow Jones ...
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March PPI Shows Low Wholesale Inflation, but Rising Food Costs Will Hit Home

Posted: April 12, 2013 at 8:47 am

Wholesale inflation may be on the rise, depending on how you view this. The U.S. Labor Department has released its March Producer Price Index showing that the headline PPI was ...
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Rite Aid Joins Serious Turnaround List for 2013

Posted: April 11, 2013 at 12:05 pm

It was just at the end of last week that we offered up a list of the greatest turnaround prospects for 2013. Rite Aid Corp. (NYSE: RAD) would have been ...
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Shops Open, J.C. Penney Stock Climbs

Posted: April 5, 2013 at 11:00 am

Today marks the opening of the long-awaited in-store shops at J.C. Penney Co. Inc. (NYSE: JCP) stores. About 500 of the company’s 1,100 stores will unveil in-store shops from Martha ...
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Tesla Gambles on Lease or Own Options

Posted: April 2, 2013 at 5:22 pm

Buying a Tesla sports car or a Model S sedan is truly a privilege. The cost of the nearly zero-emission electric vehicle is not ridiculous on the surface but is ...
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2013 Economic Impact of Easter at $17.2 Billion, Likely Undercounted

Posted: March 31, 2013 at 10:32 am

24/7 Wall St. tries to evaluate what the cost of each major holiday will be, or what the economic contribution is. The National Retail Federation tallies each holiday up using ...
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Dollar General Secondary Discount May Bring Another Opportunity

Posted: March 28, 2013 at 10:45 am

Dollar General Corp. (NYSE: DG) is a stock that we have said over and over is "money" for long-term investors. The one thing that has acted as a continued drag ...
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Dollar General Now Investment Grade

Posted: March 26, 2013 at 2:20 pm

Dollar General Corporation (NYSE: DG) is becoming less and less leveraged and is getting further and further away from its old private equity umbrella. Oh, and now it is considered ...
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UBS Very Bullish on Unusual List of Housing Recovery Stocks (HD, LOW, TWO, FRC, AMP, C, CMCSA, F, GNW, MET, MHK, SWK, TWC, TJX, WFC)

Posted: March 26, 2013 at 9:20 am

Everybody in the business of writing, reporting or talking about stocks and the stock market has highlighted the spectacular run of the housing stocks since the March 2009 low. Every ...
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