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Interview: Haverford Shares 8-Pack of Dividends (WHR, HD, UNP, UTX, APD, COP, PEP, JNJ, INTC, MSFT, HAVGX)

Posted: May 16, 2011 at 12:07 pm

Investors love dividends, particularly from companies which are raising dividends or which have a history of raising dividends.  There is a new diversified sample dividend portfolio for investors called the ...
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Great Risks of Being Too Conservative with Retirement Funds

Posted: May 16, 2011 at 10:27 am

Inflation hurts most investors and it really hurts most on fixed budgets.  It can absolutely annihilate retirees and those who are just about to retire.  Another consideration is that as investors ...
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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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Dividend Watch: Which Tech Player Will Have the Best Dividend? (INTC, MSFT, MXIM, ISIL, MCHP, DLR)

Posted: May 11, 2011 at 11:17 am

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) was already one of the highest dividend yields in the technology sector.  Intel just again raised its dividend for the second time over the last six ...
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AIG Shrinks Share Sale… Good News, Bad News (AIG, GM)

Posted: May 11, 2011 at 9:35 am

American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is seeing a mixed reaction this morning to the news that the U.S. Treasury is set to sell about 300 million shares with an ...
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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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Key Stocks To Watch This Coming Week, The Unusual Suspects (AIG, ACOM, BAC, BRK-A, BRK-B, BMTI, C, CROX, GPRE, SLV, LULU, NBG, PG, RAH, CAG, SNE, THC, CYH, X)

Posted: May 8, 2011 at 11:42 am

We have a very busy week ahead for equity investors, even outside of earnings season.  This coming week's key events, what we call The Unusual Suspects, is non-earnings related and ...
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MLPs Back in Favor As Tax Issues Easing (EPD, KMP, MMP, PAA, KYN, SRV, AMJ, AMLP, MLPN, MLPY, MLPL)

Posted: May 6, 2011 at 11:09 am

Master Limited Partnerships have been under pressure of late, in part because of oil.  The major concern for this sector is not as much oil and energy prices, but Washington ...
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10 Reasons To Worry That Stocks Will Fall 10%

Posted: May 5, 2011 at 6:15 am

The recent weakness in stocks could just be the start of what to expect in the weeks ahead.  It is early May and already we have seen the Dow Jones ...
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Gabelli Changes All ‘Focus Five’ Stock Picks (ASCMA, CCE, CVS, NAV, YHOO, BLK, ITT, MSG, NFG, NIHD)

Posted: May 2, 2011 at 12:17 pm

Gabelli & Co. is rather well-known for looking at companies for their value in special situations and in possible mergers, to the point that Mario Gabelli is known as "Dr. Love" ...
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Inflation vs. Dividends in Consumer Staples, Dividends Win All Day (KMB, PG, CL, CLX, CHD, XLY)

Posted: April 28, 2011 at 11:24 am

It would be easy to say that inflationary pressures are impacting consumer staples and consumer discretionary stocks.  This sector remains one of our favorites for investors who want defensive protection ...
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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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Dividend Watch: Textron Fails Dividend Test of Conglomerates (TXT, GE, UTX, MMM)

Posted: April 27, 2011 at 11:16 am

Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) is one of those companies that is categorized as a conglomerate by most financial analysis sector groupings.  It is not quite diversified enough by our count ...
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Severe Hack: Sony PlayStation Users Powned by Hack Attack (SNE)

Posted: April 26, 2011 at 5:54 pm

Things have gone from bad to worse at Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE).  Whether you spell "PWN" as "Powned" or not, Sony and its millions of PlayStation network users just got ...
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Dividend Watch: IBM Smart Move, Also Not So Smart Move (IBM)

Posted: April 26, 2011 at 12:11 pm

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is the largest Dow Jones Industrial Average component by far due to its share price.  If it was based on market capitalization like most ...
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