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The ‘Retiring Early’ Portfolio Makeover, Moving From Stocks To Balanced Allocation

Posted: May 18, 2011 at 7:59 am

This week has marked a feature series from Morningstar's Christine Benz for "Portfolio Makeovers."  The focus so far has been around planning for the ultimate goal of retirement and today's ...
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Screening Large Cap Value Stocks (DELL, KMB, DGX)

Posted: May 16, 2011 at 7:42 am

This week we bring reviews of "value stocks" for long-term investors by 24/7 Wall St.   Monday's focus is mostly on large-cap stocks that are easily recognized and which have large positions ...
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Debunking the Summer Stock Market Crash (QQQ, AAPL, GE, DOW, CAT, XLE, XLI, SLV)

Posted: May 11, 2011 at 5:07 pm

Certainly by now you have heard the term "Sell in May and go away!"  This was just one of the ten reasons that we noted why investors might need to worry ...
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Full 360-Degree Earnings Preview for Cisco Systems (CSCO)

Posted: May 11, 2011 at 12:52 pm

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is due to report today after the closing bell.  The big issues that the company is fighting besides weaker sales are ongoing restructuring efforts, the tone ...
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Meet The Next 10 Mega-Cap Stocks (ABT, AMZN, CSCO, HPQ, GS, MCD, OXY, QCOM, UTX, DIS)

Posted: May 10, 2011 at 2:20 pm

It is almost every day that we take a look at the market capitalization rates of some of America's largest public companies in our own Real-Time 500 reading.  The recession killed ...
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Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, Full Preview of Warren Buffett (BRK-A, BRK-B, GS, GE, LZ, COP, KO, PG, WFC, AIG)

Posted: April 27, 2011 at 2:09 pm

This coming weekend will mark the one weekend that the hotels, retailers, and restaurants all look forward to in Omaha, Nebraska... Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A)(NYSE: BRK-B) has its much-anticipated ...
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Ten Hidden Gems in Intel’s Annual Report (INTC, MU, AMD, HPQ, DELL, NVDA, QCOM, BRCM, TXN)

Posted: February 22, 2011 at 12:59 pm

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is among many of the established companies which has filed its annual report or 10-K with the SEC.  These reports are almost always long and boring ...
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Lessons of the Greatest Bull Markets, 1900 to Today

Posted: February 11, 2011 at 5:57 am

We are in the midst of one of the greatest bull markets ever seen in modern times.  Stocks are rising more often than they fall and we have just seen ...
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The Future of “AAA” Ratings: Who Has It & Who Will Lose It

Posted: February 8, 2011 at 6:02 am

Media reports questioning whether the United States will keep its "Triple-A Rating" in the future are frequent.  The fear of endless budget deficit spending and quantitative easing have only added ...
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2011 Stock Buybacks on Fire, Over $34 Billion (PFE, UNP, GME, ERTS, GD, TUP, MHS, VZ, UNM, MO, AZN, SYMC, YUM, DGX, COH, TIF, INTC)

Posted: February 4, 2011 at 12:17 pm

The method of using capital from the corporate treasury to return capital to shareholders via share repurchase programs has long been under question.  Most buybacks never are fully utilized, and ...
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America’s Ten Biggest Corporate Turnarounds

Posted: February 3, 2011 at 3:34 am

Corporate turnarounds are almost never engineered by a single person. A CEO who takes a failing company and makes it successful again obviously got help from management, a board, along ...
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2011′s New Dividend Candidates From Giant Companies (AMGN, BRK-A, DELL, EBAY, EMC, KSS, CSCO, AAPL)

Posted: January 27, 2011 at 2:26 pm

Despite big companies holding unprecedented billions and billions of dollars on their balance sheets, it is shocking how many companies do not reward shareholders in the most classic sense by ...
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Giant Companies With Stocks At All-Time Highs (AMZN, AAPL, CAT, EMR, IBM, UNP, UTX)

Posted: January 20, 2011 at 8:59 am

The market is doing well so far in 2011 after a great 2010.  With the DJIA around 11,800 it is still a far cry from when 14,000 was being challenged ...
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Apple’s Steve Jobs Takes Medical Leave, Shares Likely To Plunge

Posted: January 17, 2011 at 8:57 am

Steve Jobs wrote Apple employees that he will take a medical leave of absence but will stay CEO. It is one of the few piece of news that could cause ...
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Are More Big Spin-Offs and Break-Ups Imminent? (ITT, MRO, FO, GE, MMM, UTX, HON, DHR, DOV, TXT, OTTR, BRK-B)

Posted: January 13, 2011 at 10:55 am

The reaction to the news of a conglomerate break-up in a three-way separation was incredible for ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT) yesterday.  Shares closed up 16.5% rather than over 20% and ...
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