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Iran’s Wild Card for Defense Stocks In 2012 … Dividends Hang in the Balance (ATK, GD, LLL, LMT, RTN)

It is no secret that Iran is a saber-rattling nation. The country wants to be relevant on the global stage so much that it keeps up with its nuclear ambitions ...
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Kim Jong-il Death Drives Uncertain Korean Trading (EWY, KF, KEF, SKOR, PKX, KEP, SKM, ATK, RTN)

If there is one of several regions which can erupt rapidly, it is around the Korean Peninsula.  The death of Kim Jong-il (that photo is a tribute photo for him) after a ...
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Korean-American ADR/ETFs React Sharply on New Military Skirmish (EWY, KF, KEF, PKX, KEP, SKM, ATK, RTN, LMT, SKOR)

War and the fear of war create uncertainty for financial markets.  If there is one place in the world that you can count on uncertainty rising from throughout the years ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AAP, ALU, ATK, BWEN, BRCD, CLWR, CVH, CUB, DISH, EOG, INTC, MET, PCS, SPG)

These are some of this Monday's key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Advance Auto Parts (NYSE: AAP) Cut to Market Perform at FBR. Alcatel-Lucent ...
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Smith & Wesson Earnings Beat Very Low Estimates On Gun Sales

A cynic might say that the best thing that happened to firearms business was the election of Barack Obama in November 2008. Gun makers and owners, always distrustful of a ...
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Corporate Bond Floodgates Open Wide (IBM, JNJ, DELL, HD, AGN, AXP, ATK, AON, HPQ, MHS, HSP, HCN, PH, GR, USB, BRK.B, FTE, CM)

If corporations have high credit ratings, there is an opportunity to borrow for rates that have not been seen in years (or ever).  August saw key bond issuances at extremely ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (APC, ATK, COF, ELY, FLEX, NFLX, QCOM, STI, WCRX)

These are this Thursday's top 10 analyst calls for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research: Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE: APC) Raised to Overweight at Barclays Capital. Alliant Techsystems ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (ATK, CA, KR, LLL, LMT, RTN, SQNM, S, MMM, VNDA)

These are this Wednesday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from today's Wall Street research notes: Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) Raised to Outperform at Macquarie. CA Inc. (NYSE: ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ATK, CELG, NTAP, NVLS, WMT, ATHN, ARNA, BK, GENZ, Q)

These are the top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this Monday morning: Alliant Techsystems (ATK) Started as Buy at Jefferies. Celgene (CELG) raised to Outperform ...
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Alliant Techsystems Scores Another Huge Ammo Order (ATK)

Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) is indicated higher this morning after it has received an additional $415.6 million in small-caliber ammunition orders and modernization funding.  The contracts were awarded by the ...
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Cramer Goes To War (LMT, ATK, RTN)

On tonight's MAD MONEY on CNBC, Jim Cramer said that he thinks defense and aerospace is becoming the seventh bull market.  He thinks that the recent huge contract to Saudi ...
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