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The Best and Worst Run Cities in America

Posted: January 5, 2012 at 6:15 am

Many qualities separate the best-run and worst-run cities. But perhaps the most important is access to jobs. The economies of the best-run cities fall into two categories. They either have ...
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DJIA 2012: Best Targets Imply DJIA 13,678 (BAC, JPM, VZ, IBM, CVX, MCD, CSCO, XOM, GE, HPQ, INTC, MRK, PFE, PG, WMT, DIA)

Posted: January 3, 2012 at 6:40 am

As each new year replaces the prior year, 24/7 Wall St. looks at the individual targets on all 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average price targets from Wall Street analysts to ...
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The 13 Worst Big Stock Stories Of 2011 (BAC, DMND, FSLR, GMCR, HPQ, IPSU, SLV, KV-A, EGPT, MCP, NFLX, RIMM, SHLD)

Posted: December 30, 2011 at 12:02 pm

2011 was more or less a wash for stock performance when it was all said and done.  There were several great stories and there were many duds.  24/7 Wall St. ...
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Ten Stocks Unlikely To Survive 2012 (ALIM, AMR, APP, EK, ENER, FFN, NRTLQ, PNCL, RDDY, YRCWD)

Posted: December 30, 2011 at 8:15 am

Calling on the death of a company is no fun task.  Some companies cannot get it right and it is amazing how some companies can hold on to a status ...
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ETFs Winning & Losing Fund Flows Into Year-End (GLD, XLV, FXI, SPY, XLK, EFA)

Posted: December 28, 2011 at 2:46 pm

TrimTabs is showing what many investors might have expected.  After such a volatile year in the stock market, investors are seeking safety in the nearly no-income offered by bond funds and ...
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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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Top Biotech Stock Picks For 2012 (ARIA, DNDN, GILD, HGSI, ILMN, INCY, JAZZ, LIFE, THRX, IBB, XBI)

Posted: December 28, 2011 at 7:01 am

The biotech sector has seen its share of ups and downs in 2011 and prior years.  It is almost always the case that some of the top performing stocks each ...
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Eight Countries With Credit Ratings Set to Rise Next Year

Posted: December 21, 2011 at 12:14 pm

It seems that all of the nations around the world are facing sovereign credit ratings downgrades or warnings of downgrades. After the United States lost its prized "AAA" rating, the threat of downgrades ...
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MLP 2012 Sector Breakout? Outlook, Charts, Income (EPD, KMP, MWE, PAA, WPZ, MMP, BPL, EPB, KYN, AMJ, AMLP)

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 10:41 am

This is an interesting point in time for the sector of Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs).  The oil and gas business could greatly unlock much of the domestic unemployment woes (and ...
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Outrageous 2012 Prediction… 50% Drop in Apple Stock (AAPL, GOOG, AMZN, MSFT, NOK)

Posted: December 16, 2011 at 7:17 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is still one of the most revered companies in America, and in the world.  Since Steve Jobs has passed away there has been a bit less ...
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Best Ideas For 2012: Mostly Dividends & Value (BRK-A, CMCSA, FCX, MET, PG, STX, RDS.A, VOD, SNY, AAPL, GOOG, IBM)

Posted: December 13, 2011 at 12:59 pm

This last weekend brought the first waves of picks for 2012.  Barron's issued its "10 Favorite Stocks For 2012" and the stocks were just about all lower on Monday with ...
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Salvation For Diamond Foods, Perhaps (DMND, PG)

Posted: December 9, 2011 at 11:23 am

Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMND) is acting as though it is set to have a full accounting resolution with almost no impact at all from its ongoing review.  This may ...
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After S&P Euro Warning… EFSF Today, Banks & Insurance Companies Tomorrow

Posted: December 6, 2011 at 9:52 am

The entire world now knows about the European Union warnings from S&P on Monday.  This morning came word that the 'AAA' long-term credit rating on the European Financial Stability Fund ...
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S&P Backs Away From U.S. Downgrade Over Supercommittee Failure

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 5:39 pm

Make this as good as official now that S&P has chimed in: NO RESOLUTION FROM SUPERCOMMITTEE!!!  You already knew that the Supercommittee was really just the "stuper-committee"... Impasse, again impasse.  The big ...
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Should Jefferies Be Able to Sue Over Malicious Attacks? (JEF)

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 2:45 pm

The attack on Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) is unfortunately reminiscent of larger implosions of firms formerly named Lehman and Bear Stearns.  It almost does not seem to matter what Jefferies ...
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