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The 25 Companies Spending Billions On Buybacks (ACE, AKAM, ABC, AOL, AVT, CBOE, CHTR, CSCO, COV, DISCA, DLB, XOM, CVX, HRS, HUN, JASO, JAH, NWSA, RDC, LUV, STJ, BSX, MSI, V, HPQ)

Posted: August 11, 2011 at 12:56 pm

It is no secret that the market volatility has many investors rattled.  What is very counter-intuitive is that many companies are continuing with most or all of their investor friendly ...
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Morgan Stanley CEO Buys Over $2 Million in Company Stock (MS)

Posted: August 4, 2011 at 11:36 am

Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) has sold off enough!  That is what the company CEO is saying, and he's putting his money where is mouth is.  A Form-4 SEC filing this ...
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More Than 20 Great Companies Which Refuse To Pay Dividends (AMZN, AMGN, AAPL, BBBY, BRK-A, CBB, DELL, DG, DLTR, EBAY, ERTS, EMC, ESRX, FLEX, GOOG, JACK, NDAQ, SYMC, UAL, URBN, WDC, YHOO, ZBRA, CSCO, VMW, MHS)

Posted: July 28, 2011 at 11:05 am

If you have been a reader of 24/7 Wall St. for long, you know that we appreciate companies that pay dividends just about as much the investors who buy ...
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Vulnerable Stocks From Soros Fund Liquidation (ARX, BFLY, DNDN, EM, EXTR, HNR, IOC, MRCY, PLG, PWER, URS, VC, WPRT, AGRO)

Posted: July 26, 2011 at 9:59 am

George Soros is getting out of the hedge fund business.  Oddly enough, the regulatory climate under Dodd-Frank and other new legislation are the major reasons cited more than his age.  ...
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News Corp Plans To Buy $5 Billion In Stock, Shares Soars

Posted: July 12, 2011 at 9:16 am

News Corp (NYSE: NWS) has filed a document with the SEC that says it will buy in as may as $5 billion of its shares. The market cap of the ...
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Are Paulson’s Losses on Sino-Forest Overstated?

Posted: June 24, 2011 at 1:33 pm

Reports have been out that Paulson & Co. had suffered severe losses in a Chinese forestry company called Sino-Forest.  Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson may not have been hurt ...
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The Rich Are Growing, What They Do With Their Money (BAC)

Posted: June 24, 2011 at 9:11 am

In 1926 F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me." Today, we don't call people rich because that smacks ...
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Death of a Threat: Netflix CEO Joins Facebook Board… It Matters (NFLX)

Posted: June 23, 2011 at 3:16 pm

Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) shareholders had plenty of concerns even before Facebook announced that it was going to get into video delivery of selected movies.  In a SWOT analysis, the ...
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Deep Value Stocks in Basic Materials (AA, ACI, DOW, DVN, NUE, STLD, BRK-A)

Posted: June 23, 2011 at 10:09 am

The markets are currently shaky and investors are looking for cover.  While many seek defensive stocks and while many seek high dividends to offer equity exposure with some safety, one ...
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Why Relational Is Going After L-3 (LLL)

Posted: June 22, 2011 at 12:00 pm

Relational is going after L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: LLL).  From May 25 to June 16, Relational Investors and its affiliates have acquired enough stock to become the company's top ...
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Trading Stocks in One-Billionth of a Second

Posted: June 14, 2011 at 6:09 pm

The pace at which the market trades stocks, bonds, currencies, and futures seems to have once again become faster than anyone could have ever imagined.  Forget a few hundred automated ...
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M&A Watch: Does Major Insider Buying at Cost Plus Put It Back In Play? (CPWM, PIR)

Posted: June 7, 2011 at 7:45 am

Cost Plus Inc. (NASDAQ: CPWM) is one company which we might generally skip due to its size and volume.  The insider buying of late has been too large to ignore.  ...
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Tesla Shows How To Run A Secondary Offering, With Insider Buying (TSLA)

Posted: May 25, 2011 at 11:39 am

Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is bucking a trend.  The company has just announced a follow-on offering of 5.3 million shares of common stock.  Amazingly, the shares rallied on the ...
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Week of Whale Watching, Billionaire & Fund Manager Stock Picks (BRK-A, HCA, MRO, BAC, C)

Posted: May 20, 2011 at 2:19 pm

This week we highlighted some of the big whale watching portfolio changes.  Yep, the stock holdings from the likes of Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A), and other ...
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Whale Watching Stocks: Paulson, Soros, Berkowitz, Icahn, Einhorn (GLD, HPQ, RIG, BAC, JPM, WFC, C, AAPL, BBY, WMT, MA, AIG, BAM, CSCO, SHLD, GGP, GE, DYN, AMGN, SUG, CVS, GM)

Posted: May 16, 2011 at 6:42 pm

We have already seen (some) of the position changes of Warren Buffett, but the old guy wouldn't share many 'confidential positions' so we are whale watching in other ponds.  We wanted ...
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