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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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Taking Dividends to the Dollar Stores (FDO, DLTR, DG)

Posted: January 19, 2012 at 3:53 pm

Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (NYSE: FDO) is showing just how a secular trend is still going to rule the roost in retail.  It was Dollar Tree, Inc. (NASDAQ: DLTR) hitting ...
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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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2012 Offers Huge Auto Opportunity If Valuations Can Be Overcome (SIRI, P, F, M)

Posted: January 19, 2012 at 11:13 am

2012 may seem like a resurgence of the banking sector is afoot, but what about the resurgence of the U.S. auto industry.  The age of the consumer fleet is at ...
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Agilent Joins The Great Dividend Chase (A)

Posted: January 18, 2012 at 12:04 pm

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is often forgotten about by investors now, but the company operates in more than 100 nations and employs more than 18,000 workers.  The company is ...
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Noting Facebook as a Potential RIM Acquirer? (RIMM, GOOG, AAPL, AMZN, MSFT)

Posted: January 18, 2012 at 9:11 am

Research In Motion Limited (NASDAQ: RIMM) has been the ongoing subject of takeover rumors and that has put in at least a near-term floor after the death spiral took away ...
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Yahoo! Forces Out Jerry Yang (YHOO, MSFT, CSCO)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 5:29 pm

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) is surging in the after-hours session on news which many investors have been hoping would come for years.  Jerry Yang has finally resigned from Yahoo!  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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Capsizing Royal Caribbean With Carnival… (CCL, RCL)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 8:42 am

Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL) is getting hammered this morning after one of its Costa cruise lines grounded and partially capsized, resulting in the loss of life and resulting in million ...
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S&P European Downgrades Driving Home (EWQ, EWG, EWO, ALU)

Posted: January 13, 2012 at 10:38 am

The rumors that Standard & Poor's is set to downgrade certain European nations after the close is putting pressure on financial markets this Friday.  Is it fitting that it is ...
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2012 Outlook For EMS Sector Upside (BHE, CLS, FLEX, JBL, SANM, AAPL)

Posted: January 11, 2012 at 8:20 am

Most electronics manufacturing services outfits, EMS companies, have recovered handily from the lowest points in November, but most of these remain significantly off of their highs over the last year.  ...
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2012 Top Picks From… Everyone! (AAPL, T, BA, GE, KFT, ETFC, MCP, DNDN, BSX, ISRG, STJ)

Posted: January 10, 2012 at 7:25 am

24/7 has compiled many of the predictions from various firms and various market pundits for what lies ahead in 2012.  Wall St. modified analyst consensus price target methodology generates 12% ...
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The 17 Most Important IPOs To Watch In 2012

Posted: January 6, 2012 at 10:04 am

The initial public offering market  in 2012 is likely to be much stronger than many anticipate. Despite the lingering uncertainty and the underperformance of many popular IPOs in 2011, this ...
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The 24/7 Wall St. 2012 Model Dividend Portfolio (AEP, AWK, T, GE, GOV, KMB, SNH, WMT, JNK, AMJ, AMLP, PGF, MO, DLR, EPD, KMP)

Posted: January 5, 2012 at 2:41 pm

It seems that most investors have started adding income or dividend reinvestment plans to their portfolios by using dividend stocks. With the yields of the 10-Year Treasury close to 2% ...
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Why The J.C. Penney Flop Is Good For Investors (JCP, M, SKS, KSS, AAPL, MSO)

Posted: January 5, 2012 at 10:32 am

J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE: JCP) is getting hit pretty hard this morning.  While current investors will not appreciate the drop, this is actually great news for those investors ...
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