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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (YUM, DMD, NLY, MS, UBS, AGU, CVS, RL, RAI, TWX, DIS, WYN, BWLD, CSCO, CZR, FFN, TNK, AKAM, NURO)

The US equity markets opened slightly higher this morning, but soon turned around and spent the rest of the morning lower before returning to about even by afternoon. Equities could ...
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Media Digest (1/13/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

TPG may invest $1 billion in troubled Olympus. (Reuters) President Obama to ask for a $1.2 trillion increase in the national debt ceiling. (Reuters) China’s foreign currency reserves drop to ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (T, FFIV, URBN, AMGN, BAX, CAG, GIS, NAV, SAFM, JEF, NKE, ORCL, TRGT, CIE, CSIQ, PBH, HOV, CVS)

US equity markets opened sharply higher this morning and have been able to sustain and even add to those gains throughout the day. Business and consumer confidence indexes in Europe ...
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America’s 10 Highest Paid CEOs (Which Are Worth It?)

Several lists of the highest paid CEOs in America are published each year mostly by the business media and shareholder groups. All are based on proxy statements. Long before the ...
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Ten Highest Paid CEOs of 2010 (MCK, OCR, TRW, VRSK, CVS, GGP, RL, VNO, AET, GBL)

When it comes to executive pay, the amounts paid to today’s highest paid CEOs equals the GDP of a small emerging nation. The ten most highly compensated CEOs according to ...
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Whale Watching: Paulson & Co. Speared By Banks & Gold (BAC, COF, C, JPM, WFC, XL, NYX, GLD, TEVA, FDO, MGM, HPQ, AMCX, CEPH, COV, CVS, MYL)

Paulson & Co. Inc. is another hedge fund group that investors use for Whale Watching, although this last quarter was not exactly kind to Mr. Paulson's billions... The current 13F ...
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Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings, A to K (BRK-B, BRK-A, AXP, BK, KO, CVS, CDCO, COP, COST, DG, XOM, GCI, GE, GSK, INTC, IR, IBM, JNJ, KFT)

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released the latest holdings of U.S.-listed equities as of September 30, 2011. These public stock holdings have been broken down ...
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Shorts Exit Weak Shares (EK, AMR, BP, LVLT)

Short sellers moved out of stocks that have fallen recently. Perhaps they believe there will be a large rally in the market. There is little else to make the shares ...
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August’s New Massive Stock Buybacks… Over $30 Billion (LOW, CVS, CELG, COV, INTU, DISCA, HRS, LMT, RSG, LOW, ABC, MXIM, ANR, AVT, JAH, LUV, STJ, ECL, IPG, FRX, ACE, CLF, CTSH, KBR, NWL, VRX, AKAM, AOL, DLB, URBN, ACM, CHTR, MYGN, PFG, HSIC)

The pace of stock buyback announcements in the month of August was almost unbelievable.  The pace was stronger at the start of the month when earnings were still coming in ...
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America’s Biggest Store Chains With No Online Shoppers

Online sales success has become critical to major retailers. All evidence shows that e-commerce continues to grow at double-digit annual rates while in-store sales in the U.S. have barely grown ...
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Reality Check: Walgreen’s Nice! Challenges Grocery & Convenience Stores (WAG, CVS, RAD, KR, SWY, WMT, TGT)

Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) is just a drugstore... Right?  Maybe not any longer in entirety.  As of last year, the company operated 7,650 drugstores and it owned 37 strip shopping ...
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Gabelli’s Major Quarterly Changes to Focus Five Stock Pick List (ARG, CF, LNCE, TE, YHOO, ASCMA, CCE, CVS, NAV)

August 1 might not sound like the start of a quarter to most, but this is that date of a key report from a unique brokerage and advisory firm.  Today ...
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Top Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (CIM, HUM, ADM, COH, DRYS, DUK, OPEN, PFE, SIRI, AWK, CLX, CMCSA, DNDN, GRMN, WFR, TSLA, ZIP, AIG, CVS, DF, FSLR, KFT, LNKD, PCLN, LUV, PG)

We have another very busy earnings week ahead for the second quarter reporting season.  Some are DJIA components and some are sector-movers or market-movers.  We are tracking earnings and giving ...
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Medco-Express Deal Makes PBM Winners & Losers; Antitrust Issues Arise (MHS, ESRX, WAG, CVS, CHSI)

MedcoHealth Solutions Inc. (NYSE: MHS) is a company we have somewhat expected might succumb to consolidation in the arena surrounding healthcare.  Express Scripts Inc. (NASDAQ: ESRX) is offering some $29 ...
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Why The Dow Will Plunge To 7,000

One theory of economics says that any market can return to a point where it has been in the past. The Great Recession was, by some measures as bad as ...
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