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Short Sellers Help Push Dendreon Higher

Posted: January 6, 2012 at 6:39 am

Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN) soared almost 40% in value, or $3.02 a share, in active trading on Thursday after announcing that fourth-quarter revenue from its Provenge prostate-cancer vaccine would exceed earlier ...
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America’s Most Overpaid CEOs

Posted: October 20, 2011 at 4:15 am

It’s that time of year again, when proxies are released and many business publications run lists of the highest paid CEOs at America’s large public companies. The compensation figures are ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (AAPL, WMT, WFM, MS, BAC, INTC, WMB, HGSI, ABT, OXGN, PWAV, AEM)

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 4:20 pm

Stocks opened down this morning following the earnings report Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) after markets closed yesterday. Moody's downgrade of Spain's sovereign debt also weighed on the opening.  The Consumer Price ...
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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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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report (10/19/2011) Abbott Lab Splits, Morgan Earnings

Posted: October 19, 2011 at 8:50 am

MSNBC: US housing starts jumped in September http://on.msnbc.com/pxVyNE NYT: Olympus Backtracks on Payments http://nyti.ms/pAPNmD CNNMoney: Apple 2.0: Apple's big miss: The analysts weigh in http://bit.ly/r7OZMN $AAPL FT: Olympus contradicts chairman ...
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America’s Recession-Proof Companies

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 7:27 pm

With fears of a new economic downturn, investors have become concerned about sales and profits of large companies. But there are companies that have already proven themselves in the recent ...
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Boston Scientific Gets New Boss, Eventually (BSX, JNJ, ABT)

Posted: September 14, 2011 at 8:01 am

Medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE: BSX) has named a new president who will take over on October 17th and who will then be elevated to CEO on November ...
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The Eleven Most Implanted Medical Devices In America

Posted: July 18, 2011 at 8:02 pm

Implanted medical devices are one of the most profitable businesses of the U.S. healthcare industry. While many devices help extend and improve quality of life, a great many others may ...
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Beyond the Pharma Patent Cliff, Dividends Galore (LLY, BMY, MRK, PFE, ABT)

Posted: June 16, 2011 at 8:10 am

Many drug companies face a what is called a patent cliff ahead, where the Big Pharma players will have key drugs go off-patent and there will be new generic competition.  ...
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Media Digest (5/27/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 27, 2011 at 6:18 am

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) was sued by PayPal and Ebay (NASDAQ: EBAY) over the use of trade secrets in its new e-commerce payment system. (Reuters) A power shortage in China may ...
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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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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ABT, ABAT, AMZN, BAC, GNOM, ELX, GCI, HAL, MJN, NAV, NLSN, TSCO, YRCW, HCA)

Posted: April 19, 2011 at 8:27 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning. Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) Maintained Hold but cut estimates at ...
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Media Digest (2/24/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 24, 2011 at 4:14 am

Brent crude rose $6 to $113 on worries about Middle East contagion. (Reuters) GM (NYSE: GM) is likely to post its first annual profit since 2004. (Reuters) An effort by ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Market Report 1/26/2011 Boeing, Abbott, US Air, Kodak, United Tech Earnings

Posted: January 26, 2011 at 8:47 am

Twitter  has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have ...
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More Big Dividend Hikes Coming in 2011 (ABT, AWK, DPS, XOM, KMB, NEE, TGT, WMT)

Posted: January 24, 2011 at 12:35 pm

Last week we began a series of companies which we expect will raise their dividends in 2011.  It was the first piece of a series and there are many other ...
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