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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — September 20, 2012: Markets Close on Mixed Note (NSC, MS, COH, HAL, AWK, LTD, ADBE, BBBY, CAG, JEF, RAD, ORCL, CTAS, KBH, TRLA, ASTI, QCOR)

Posted: September 20, 2012 at 4:05 pm

The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning following mostly weak reports on European PMI (more coverage here). The reading on U.S. PMI was unchanged from last month ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ADBE, ATK, AWK, C, CLH, COH, GS, HAL, LM, LTD, MAR, MS, NSC, NVE, QCOR, TYC)

Posted: September 20, 2012 at 8:11 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Thursday. Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) raised to Outperform at RBC Capital ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — August 6, 2012: Market Rises on Low Volume, Lack of News

Posted: August 6, 2012 at 4:02 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning most likely due to the lack of bad news on the Eurozone’s financial troubles (more coverage here). Asian markets got ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AWK, AMTG, NLY, BZH, CHK, CXS, CRY, F, KFT, L, PGR, RF, TICC, WMT)

Posted: August 6, 2012 at 8:20 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls this Monday morning. American Water Works Company Inc. (NYSE: AWK) raised to Outperform ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — August 3, 2012: Market Jumps on Payroll Data

Posted: August 3, 2012 at 4:06 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened about 1% higher this morning following the news that non-farm payrolls grew by a much larger-than-expected 163,000 (our coverage here). Once investors warmed ...
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Market Slides on Central Banks’ Inaction

Posted: August 2, 2012 at 4:03 pm

The three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning as the Bank of England left interest rates alone (our coverage here) and the European Central Bank (ECB) did the ...
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A Higher Water Dividend (AWR, AWK, CWT)

Posted: August 1, 2012 at 8:20 am

American States Water Co. (NYSE: AWR) has just announced that it is raising its dividend. The water utility said this brings its payout ratio more in-line with its industry peers and ...
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Top Earnings Previews For This Week (AIG, ATVI, AWK, CMCSA, EA, FSLR, GMCR, KFT, PFE, PG, YELP)

Posted: July 30, 2012 at 12:33 pm

Last week was a jam-packed week of earnings reports and this week has many key reports.  We have provided earnings previews for 11 companies we expect to follow this week.  ...
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Ten Must-Watch Events for the Week Ahead

Posted: July 29, 2012 at 7:38 am

The week ahead is going to be a busy week. There are many traditional events to watch, but by now the market participants and investors have learned that they have ...
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Dividend Risks Inflating

Posted: July 17, 2012 at 6:30 am

Investors cannot make any money in the bond market right now merely by buying and holding Treasury bonds forever. The problem is that Treasury yields are at record lows. In ...
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Utilities Have Become The New CDs and Bonds For Income Investors

Posted: June 4, 2012 at 1:50 pm

We are mostly in a world where many investors are now just willing to settle for a "return of capital" rather than a "return on capital."  Still, retirees and investors ...
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Investors Finding Safety Again in Utilities, When Dividends Rule (WTR, AWK, PPL, DUK, ED, NEE, AEP, XLU)

Posted: June 1, 2012 at 10:08 am

By now the markets figured out that all of this week's preliminary jobs numbers did in fact call it right that the unemployment and jobs report was right.  So investors ...
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Investors Flocking To Defensive Shares With High Dividends (PEP, KO, BUD, TAP, AWK, AEP, XLU, MCD, KFT, CAG, CPB, HRL, MO, VGR, RAI, PG, KMB, CL, MRK, PFE, JNJ, T, VZ)

Posted: May 31, 2012 at 11:13 am

The 10-year Treasury hit yet another record low under 1.6% today and stocks are in the tank again due to poor economic data.  Europe continues to face a meltdown and ...
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Investors Seeking Defensive Stocks Where 3% to Over 5% Dividends Rule!

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 1:14 pm

A stock market that sells off eight of nine days is not a good market.  Even the Facebook IPO is being viewed as a one-off item rather than a systemic ...
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The Market Where Defensive Shares Are Working Again (PEP, KO, BUD, TAP, AWK, MCD, KFT, CAG, CPB, HRL, MO, VGR, RAI, PG, KMB, CL, MRK, PFE, JNJ, T, VZ)

Posted: May 8, 2012 at 12:07 pm

Blame whatever you want.  A weaker U.S. economy, a weakening and flailing Europe, a move to socialism in France and Greece, a weaker BRIC and emerging market story, commodity prices ...
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