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Banking on Dirty Harry

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 4:00 pm

We have a tale of two gun stories today.  Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: SWHC) is surging on news from the company that gun sales are running even stronger ...
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Boeing Earnings Surge, Forecast Rises (BA, GD, NOC, LMT, RTN)

Posted: April 25, 2012 at 10:02 am

Aircraft maker Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) reported first quarter earnings this morning that handily beat expectations for EPS and revenues. EPS came in at $1.22 on revenue of $19.4 billion, ...
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Orders for Durable Goods Fall

Posted: April 25, 2012 at 9:05 am

The March report on durable goods from the US Census Bureau is out and for the second of the past three months new orders are down. The March drop totals ...
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Boeing Deliveries Rise 32% in First Quarter (BA)

Posted: April 5, 2012 at 12:24 pm

Aircraft maker Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) reported this morning that it delivered 137 new commercial airliners in the first calendar quarter of the year, a jump of 32% over the ...
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US Top Arms Exporter, India Top In Imports

Posted: March 19, 2012 at 6:23 am

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute issued its report on arms imports and export trends from 2007 to 2011. The agency writes The volume of international transfers of major conventional ...
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The 10 Most Expensive Weapons in the World

Posted: January 9, 2012 at 6:49 am

The 10 most expensive weapons systems in the world total $868 billion in research and development and manufacturing costs. The Department of Defense has commissioned each of the weapons. The ...
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Iran’s Wild Card for Defense Stocks In 2012 … Dividends Hang in the Balance (ATK, GD, LLL, LMT, RTN)

Posted: December 28, 2011 at 1:44 pm

It is no secret that Iran is a saber-rattling nation. The country wants to be relevant on the global stage so much that it keeps up with its nuclear ambitions ...
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Kim Jong-il Death Drives Uncertain Korean Trading (EWY, KF, KEF, SKOR, PKX, KEP, SKM, ATK, RTN)

Posted: December 19, 2011 at 9:53 am

If there is one of several regions which can erupt rapidly, it is around the Korean Peninsula.  The death of Kim Jong-il (that photo is a tribute photo for him) after a ...
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The Boeing Dividend Hike Surprise (BA)

Posted: December 12, 2011 at 3:08 pm

Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) was not featured as one of our model stocks in the 24/7 Wall St. 2012 model Dividend Portfolio and it was not even featured as a ...
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Where US Federal Budget Cuts Will Hurt the Most (LMT, NOC, BA, RTN, SAI, GD, HPQ, LLL, BAH, KBR)

Posted: November 14, 2011 at 11:50 am

The US House-Senate budget reduction committee, or the ‘super committee’, that is charged with recommending $1.5 trillion in budget cuts over the next 10 years has just another 10 ...
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Drug Raid at Boeing Plant (BA)

Posted: September 29, 2011 at 3:07 pm

Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) doesn't have enough trouble, what with three-year delays to its new passenger liner and an order cancellation for its newest freight hauler just days before the ...
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The 2011 Layoff Kings (BSX, CSCO, DAL, GCI, GS, HBC, LMT, MRK, RIMM, SHLD, CS, UBS, MS, ESRX, MHS)

Posted: August 10, 2011 at 5:39 am

Financial markets have been reeling as investors grow more concerned about the economy: An S&P downgrade of the full faith and credit of the United States, dismal GDP data, and ...
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ITT Special Situation Break-Up Becomes More Clear (ITT, XYL, XLS)

Posted: July 14, 2011 at 10:30 am

ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) is now forecasting more clearly what its special situation break-up will look like.  This was recently featured by 24/7 Wall St. as one of our picks ...
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What Change Icahn Can Influence At Oshkosh (OSK)

Posted: July 1, 2011 at 9:18 am

Now that it's known that investor Carl Icahn is acquiring shares in Oshkosh Corp. (NYSE: OSK) it appears that the stock in the maker of specialty vehicles is going to ...
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There Is General Agreement That Military Accounts Are Loaded With Fat

Posted: July 1, 2011 at 6:45 am

The Institute for Policy Studies, one of the scores of think-tanks that thinks it knows better how the federal government should be run than Congress or The White House do, ...
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