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Get Ready for a Pfizer Dividend Hike… A Holiday Gift From Big Pharma (PFE, MRK, WPI, TEVA)

Posted: December 8, 2011 at 11:14 am

We recently gave a full review of the DJIA components we expect to raise their dividend payouts in the weeks and months ahead.  Among those we expect to raise the ...
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Best and Worst Run Companies in America

Posted: December 8, 2011 at 6:26 am

Many American companies have done incredibly well this year. A number posted extraordinary financial results in 2011. Others have launched products that revolutionized markets. Of course, many big public corporations ...
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The Corzine Subpoena… Future of Segregated Funds Hangs in the Wind

Posted: December 2, 2011 at 10:39 am

Jon Corzine was supposed to be the poster boy for modern-day finance... From the King of Finance, to New Jersey's governor, and back to Wall Street.  Now Corzine is just the King of ...
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Disney Goes Big On Dividend Hike (DIS)

Posted: November 30, 2011 at 5:08 pm

We recently gave a breakdown of each and every DJIA component as far as which companies were and were not likely to raise their dividend payouts in the very near ...
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Should Jefferies Be Able to Sue Over Malicious Attacks? (JEF)

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 2:45 pm

The attack on Jefferies Group, Inc. (NYSE: JEF) is unfortunately reminiscent of larger implosions of firms formerly named Lehman and Bear Stearns.  It almost does not seem to matter what Jefferies ...
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Mosaic Manages Positive Cargill Share Buyback (MOS)

Posted: November 17, 2011 at 9:26 am

The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) is joining in on the stock buyback bandwagon.  This is not a traditional share repurchase in the open market because the 21.3 million shares being ...
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All 30 DJIA Dividend Trends into 2012, Stock by Stock (DIA, AA, AXP, T, BAC, BA, CAT, CVX, CSCO, KO, DD, XOM, GE, HD, HPQ, IBM, INTC, JNJ, JPM, KFT, MCD, MMM, MRK, MSFT, PFE, PG, TRV, UTX, VZ, WMT, DIS)

Posted: November 15, 2011 at 2:17 pm

The economic choppiness is coming to a head with the age of dividend hikes. The pressure is going to remain for companies to continue returning capital to shareholders while also ...
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Chimera Accounting Review, A Lesson For Other Mortgage REITs (CIM, NLY, AGNC, HTS, MORT)

Posted: November 15, 2011 at 11:01 am

Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) is the mortgage REIT which we used to dub "the vulture mortgage REIT" because of its targets in lower-rated mortgage-backed securities. Usually a delay in a ...
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Another DOE-Backed Alternative Energy Bankruptcy (BCON)

Posted: October 31, 2011 at 12:01 pm

Alternative energy stocks continue on their path of self-destruction.  The government has been handing over taxpayer cash in droves to help fund alternative energy companies.  Now what we are witnessing is ...
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SanDisk Stock Buyback May Imply a Near-Term Top (SNDK, AAPL)

Posted: October 27, 2011 at 5:29 pm

SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) is still considered a value stock by many metrics, but we are concerned about this freshly announced share buyback plan. In fact, we wonder if after seeing ...
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24/7 Closing Bell (BP, DRYS, STX, PETM, BHP, F, MCD, GE, CMG, FSL, APKT, CALX, GMCR, PCYO, SYNA, RCON)

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 4:27 pm

A raft of good earnings reports pushed the markets higher at opening this morning, sending the Dow Industrials up about 200 points at mid-day. For some reason traders are hopeful ...
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S&P Upgrade of Ford Signals Dividend Is Closer (F, GM)

Posted: October 21, 2011 at 11:00 am

Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) may not yet quite be investment grade, but the company is getting closer and closer.  Friday morning brought the news that Standard & Poor's has raised the debt ...
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The Abbott Break-Up Seems To Make Sense (ABT, BIIB, BMY)

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 10:18 am

Drug and medical stocks are not generally thought of as stocks hitting 52-week highs by the investing public.  So what about when a company decides to unlock shareholder value by ...
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13 Technology Stocks To Outperform Apple (AAPL, AKAM, BIDU, BMC, CLS, GLW, EMC, JNPR, MRVL, MU, NTAP, STX, VRSN, WDC)

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 8:23 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been the king of tech stocks. While Apple's results still showed rapid earnings and revenue growth, the report disappointed and results were below Wall Street's ...
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12 Stocks Expected To Outperform Apple Ahead (AAPL, CAT, DD, EMC, FDX, GE, GOOG, GMCR, QCOM, SNDK, SPLS, URBN, DIS, NFLX, OPEN, FSLR)

Posted: October 12, 2011 at 8:28 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is often considered the king of stocks.  Even after the death of Steve Jobs, Apple remains the most valuable company by market cap and shares recently ...
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