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Petrobras Record Bond Sale in Shadow of Apple’s Record Capital Raise

Posted: May 13, 2013 at 6:17 pm

Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (NYSE: PBR), or Petrobras for American investors, is on the verge of yet a second record corporate bond offering in the last few of weeks. The state-owned ...
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Short Interest Plays Tricks Ahead of and into SolarCity Earnings

Posted: May 13, 2013 at 4:52 pm

Maybe Elon Musk is the modern real-world version of Tony Stark as you are seeing all over the internet. As for his SolarCity Corp. (NASDAQ: SCTY), the still relatively new solar power ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Stocks to Buy: Groupon, Rackspace, Sina and More

Posted: May 9, 2013 at 8:40 am

Investors are on the hunt for fresh research ideas that will lead to higher income or more profits. 24/7 Wall St. reviews many fresh research calls to find great ideas ...
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Generac Investor Sells More Shares

Posted: May 7, 2013 at 9:35 am

Generac Holdings Inc. (NYSE: GNRC) is seeing another instance where insiders are selling out of shares in a secondary offering. The power backup generator company is selling 9 million shares ...
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UBS Says to Buy Engineering, Construction and Infrastructure Stocks

Posted: May 7, 2013 at 8:20 am

As the economy starts to pick up, major works projects that had been on the drawing board are starting to be initiated. Everything from the construction and installation of oil ...
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American Water Works Dividend Hike: Best Water Stock Again

Posted: May 6, 2013 at 11:15 am

American Water Works Co. Inc. (NYSE: AWK) just delivered on yet another big dividend hike under its corporate governance plan for shareholders. The top water utility in America has raised ...
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SunPower Earnings Good Enough to Support Whole Solar Sector

Posted: May 2, 2013 at 4:26 pm

SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) released its corporate earnings shortly before the close rather than after the close, and the result is that another big solar move higher may be underway. ...
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Ten Cities with the Worst Traffic

Posted: May 1, 2013 at 6:51 am

Last year, the average American driver wasted 38 hours sitting in traffic. While the occasional traffic jam inconveniences most drivers, some unlucky people live in the nation’s most congested cities. ...
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Senate Bill Ends Air Traffic Controller Furloughs

Posted: April 26, 2013 at 7:00 am

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill to end the furloughs of air traffic controllers. This should halt a long series of flight delays that have threatened to gridlock the ...
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Analyst War Breaks Out over Cree and LED Recovery

Posted: April 24, 2013 at 9:55 am

Wall St. analyst calls very frequently are directional. In short, they tend to upgrade or downgrade stocks in the same manner because they theoretically have access to the same information. ...
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The Best Big Corporate Earnings Indicators This Earnings Season

Posted: April 24, 2013 at 8:00 am

Earnings season is still in overdrive. Many companies are meeting or just beating earnings expectations, but the bias has been toward coming in light on revenues. We have seen many ...
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First Solar Sells Another Solar Energy Project

Posted: April 23, 2013 at 2:36 pm

First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) said today that it has sold its Campo Verde solar energy project to a subsidiary of Southern Company (NYSE: SO) and Turner Renewable Energy. The ...
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Sell in May and Go Away? A 2013 Primer and Catalysts

Posted: April 23, 2013 at 12:36 pm

Stocks have enjoyed a serious bull market, and we still have the S&P 500 Index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average both up by double digits so far in 2013. ...
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What Weak Caterpillar Outlook Means to Global Mining and Metals in 2013

Posted: April 22, 2013 at 10:15 am

It was just at the end of last week that we gave a pre-earnings update for Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) in our DJIA earnings season scorecard, warning that the market ...
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Are MLP Payouts at Risk of Losing Tax Advantages?

Posted: April 19, 2013 at 1:32 pm

The world of Master Limited Partnerships (or MLPs) has to go through adjustments from time to time as investors sometimes wonder about their tax consequences at a time when the ...
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