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Jeff Immelt Sees Better Economy for GE and Shareholders; Dividends and Buybacks Continue

Posted: May 22, 2013 at 12:00 pm

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) did not get treated well after its first-quarter earnings report. Perhaps the largest problem was that the conglomerate's stock had gotten ahead of itself. That ...
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ETF Focus: Share Repurchases Keep Outperforming Dividends

Posted: May 22, 2013 at 11:40 am

When it comes to returning capital to shareholders, companies generally choose to pay dividends or to start share buyback plans. Many companies do both, but the real question to ask is ...
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Credit Suisse Lists the Best MLPs to Buy: Cheniere, Williams and More

Posted: May 22, 2013 at 9:05 am

A strong stock market has the oil and gas master limited partnerships (MLPs) on fire in 2013, which already offer high dividends or distributions as income and return of capital. ...
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NetApp Masks Company Earnings and Poor Guidance with Layoffs, Dividend, and Buyback

Posted: May 21, 2013 at 4:29 pm

NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) is reporting its fourth-quarter corporate earnings and it is throwing in a larger share buyback plan and is initiating a dividend payment to support the news. ...
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J.P. Morgan Also Confirms a Higher Dividend

Posted: May 21, 2013 at 12:50 pm

The news flow around J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) and Jamie Dimon has overshadowed the possibility that the largest bank by assets is increasing its dividend for the ...
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Apple Joins Overseas Corporate Tax and Repatriation Debate in Washington D.C.

Posted: May 20, 2013 at 3:41 pm

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) set a record for its $17 billion debt offering in the last month, but the entire borrowing could have been avoided if there was not such ...
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GE Capital Dividend to GE, Prelude to a Higher GE Dividend for You!

Posted: May 20, 2013 at 8:00 am

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is already on the path to raise its dividend later in the year. Now we have word from the company that GE Capital will pay ...
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Eight Best Warren Buffett Stocks for High-Yield Dividends and Value Investors

Posted: May 16, 2013 at 6:21 am

On Wednesday night came the 13F filing from Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) showing the latest and greatest stock holdings of Warren Buffett and the investing team there. We noted that ...
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Apple Cash May Grow Despite Investor Return Program

Posted: May 15, 2013 at 1:21 pm

By Isaac Shapiro, Economic Policy Institute Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) exceptionally large cash reserve led it to recently announce that it would expand the amount of funds to be returned to ...
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Southwest Airlines Chases Delta, Raising Its Dividend and Stock Buyback Game

Posted: May 15, 2013 at 11:30 am

Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) is living up to what we expected last week. After Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) jumped the gun with a dividend declaration and new ...
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HSBC Will Cut Jobs

Posted: May 15, 2013 at 6:55 am

The brutal drive toward operating efficiency that many large companies adopted during the recession continues, despite what most economists call a recovery. Cost cuts are not any more evident than ...
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Verizon Wireless Dividend Creates Smoke Screen over Verizon and Vodafone Merger

Posted: May 14, 2013 at 10:15 am

Verizon Communication Inc. (NYSE: VZ) should be a story all about the dividend news today after it said that it would pay out a $7 billion dividend. However, it is ...
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Is QE Damning Mortgage REITs and Their Dividend Prospects?

Posted: May 13, 2013 at 12:47 pm

High yield investors have been chasing the attractive dividend payouts offered by the mortgage REIT sector for years and years now. Unlike the high payouts from telecom, tobacco, and utilities ...
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Stellar U.S. 30-Year Treasury Bond Auction

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 1:28 pm

Can you imagine lending the government your money for a period of thirty years for less than 3.0% interest per year. That is exactly what happened in the latest Treasury ...
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UBS Offers Global Dividend Ruler Stocks to Buy: Total, Teva, TD and More

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 8:35 am

Total return is always the name of the game when it comes to investing success. Stocks that pay dividends on a regular basis help smooth out the rough spots when ...
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