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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (BBY, SD, ALL, JCP, KIM, AEP, CVX, D, F, HON, PG, SOA, CPHD, INFI, NRGY, RVBD)

All three major US indexes opened lower this morning following the report that US GDP grew by 2.8% in the fourth quarter. A rise of 3% was expected. Combined with ...
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Company Winners & Losers Expected From Hurricane Irene (ALL, TRV, CB, BRK-A, DUK, D, ETR, AWK, VZ, HD, LOW, URI, PPG, BECN, IBI, BGG, GNRC, CRD-B, CLH, NYX, NDAQ)

Will Hurricane Irene cost the United States $10 billion? $15 billion? Or even more?  It really depends upon whom you speak with on this front.  The expected damage count is ...
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CEOs Buying Their Own Companies At A Discount (NLY, CHTR, D, EQY, GBX, HUN, LEAP, LGND, MBRG, MS, TIE, WIN)

Investors couldn't have missed seeing the recent waves of new corporate share buyback plans. What they may have not noticed as clearly is the increasing trend in "legal insider trading" ...
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9 Utilities Set To Raise Dividends (DUK, AWK, AWR, XEL, DTE, AEP, CEG, D, ETR, FE, NEE, PNW, PPL, PGN)

If you have seen one trend that has lasted in 2011 it is that companies are hiking their dividend payouts for their shareholders.  Many classic investment models are based almost ...
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Why Fund & Income Investors Are Drawn to Utilities (XLU, SO, EXC, D, IDU, RYU, CEG, NRG, NI, PCS, VZ, UPW, NEE, UTF, UTG, DNP, FSTUX, CMS, POR, RYAUX, FE, FKUTX, SRE)

When the going gets tough, the tough often play defense -- out of risky assets and into those assets that offer more security and some dividend upside. One choice is ...
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Alternative Energy Watch: US Energy Policy Debate Kicks-off; Saudi Arabia Looks to Solar & Nuclear Growth; Hydropower Gets a Boost

Policy stories have piled up today in alternative energy and energy, led off by a response from the Republican Party to President Obama's energy speech. The GOP has introduced a ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ADTN, AET, CLWR, GLW, D, NFLX, NVDA, SPLS, STP, UNH, UTX, VLO, WY)

These are some of this Monday's top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms. ADTRAN Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) Raised to Buy at BofA/ML. Aetna ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AAI, D, ERTS, GBX, INTU, KBH, LVS, LDK, NEM, PHM, SPRD, STP, TSL, YGE)

These are some of this Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: AirTran Holdings (NYSE: AAI) Cut to Neutral at JPMorgan; Cut to Neutral ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AAPL, AMAT, AVGO, CMED, D, FDO, ISRG, MDT, ORCC, PEG, QLIK, RLD, RIMM)

These are some of this Wednesday's top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Reiterated Overweight and $340 target at ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AFL, ACF, BCS, DELL, D, FDX, HES, LULU, NICE, PGI, THC, UPS)

These are some of the top analyst research calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street firms this Thursday morning: AFLAC Incorporated (NYSE: AFL) Raised to Outperform at ...
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AT&T Customer Satisfaction Dives As Dropped Calls Surge

By Jeff Reeves, Investor Place Wireless telecom provider Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has been trouncing AT&T (NYSE: T) for months in surveys of customer satisfaction and loyalty. But a recent survey ...
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Mine Disaster Is Not Only Problem Facing Coal Industry (ACI, ANR, BKH, CNX, JRCC, MEE, BTU, KOL, MSA, D, CGX)

The coal sector has been rocked in the past two weeks by deadly accidents at mines in China and the US. In China, 32 miners are still missing and 6 ...
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Dividends or Not, Utilities Need To Perform (XLU, SO, D, DUK, FPL, AEP, ETR, FE, EIX, PGN, PPL, XEL, DTE, AES, CEG, NRG, CPN, AYE, NU, PNW, POM, NST, OGE, TE)

Investors love dividends, and big stable utility stocks often have some of the highest dividends of any class of stocks.  There has just been one problem... Dividends or not, utilities ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AKAM, BX, D, FCX, GS, NFLX, PAYX, SPLS, SLB, VALE)

These are ten of the top research calls we have seen in the form of upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street analysts this Wednesday morning: Akamai Technologies Inc. (NYSE: ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AFL, BRCM, DDS, D, INTC, MRVL, BTU, RTP, STP, TXN)

These are Friday morning's top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this morning in Wall Street research calls: AFLAC (NYSE: AFL) Raised to Overweight at Morgan ...
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