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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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The 17 Most Important IPOs To Watch For In 2011

Posted: January 12, 2011 at 6:20 am

The market for Initial Public Offerings is booming.  After seeing so many IPOs trade exponentially higher than expected in 2010, the market should continue to be strong in 2011.  We ...
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Six DJIA Stocks With Most Upside In 2011 (BA, BAC, CSCO, HPQ, JPM, PFE)

Posted: January 3, 2011 at 8:01 am

It is 2011 and we have our outlook target pieces for sectors and for indexes for the year ahead.  After taking a look at the implied upside to one-year price ...
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DJIA 2011: Best Targets Imply DJIA 13,042 (BAC, CSCO, XOM, GE, HPQ, INTC, JPM, MCD, MRK, PFE, PG, WMT, DIA, VZ)

Posted: January 2, 2011 at 11:29 am

Can the Dow Jones Industrial Average rise 12.65% more in 2011 after gaining about 11% in 2010?   Our calculations show the the DJIA is likely to hit 13,042.06 in 2011.  ...
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December Buybacks Near $30 Billion Already, More For 2011 (T, AET, AZO, ADSK, CB, CAG, CCK, ECA, ENZN, HD, INTC, MAN, MKL, SWY, SYK, TEVA, TIBX, PKW, CSCO, GE, BAC, WFC, JPM)

Posted: December 22, 2010 at 12:38 pm

There is a long-standing debate over the effect and impact of share buyback plans. What is not up for debate is that many companies have given big updates or announced ...
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Is the `Cash On The Sidelines’ Argument A Myth?

Posted: December 10, 2010 at 4:40 am

Want further proof of the reluctance of companies to hire?  Well, here it is, or maybe not. Data released yesterday from The Federal Reserve showed that U.S. nonfinancial companies held ...
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Weekly Jobless Data Still No Help

Posted: December 9, 2010 at 8:34 am

The Labor Department has just released its latest round of Weekly Jobless Claims fell 17,000 to 421,000 claims from an upwardly revised 438,000 the week before.  Bloomberg had estimates pegged ...
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Ten Companies To Own For The Next Decade (AEP, AWK, CSCO, DG, XOM, KMB, GE, RSG, TEVA, DIS)

Posted: November 10, 2010 at 4:21 am

Picking stocks for a decade is no easy task.  It might as well be for a lifetime because there probably will be two more bear markets and two more bull ...
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