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Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway New Stock Holdings: Value, Dividends, Growth

Posted: May 15, 2013 at 5:18 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) and Warren Buffett released the conglomerate's stock holdings as of March 31, 2013. This 13F filing with the SEC shows that the company's total equity ...
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Nine Famous Companies That Can’t Get Bigger

Posted: April 5, 2013 at 6:22 am

After years of flourishing, some of America’s largest public corporations have stopped growing. In several cases, this trend began years ago. The companies that cannot grow fall into two categories. ...
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North Korea Rhetoric Acts as Defense Contractor Gift

Posted: April 3, 2013 at 2:28 pm

The rhetoric out of North Korea is acting as a drag to the broader markets, but don't tell that to the defense sector. Of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks, ...
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Top Defense Stocks for North Korea Conflict (LMT, NOC, GD, RTN, BA, T, CTL, BAH, IBM, HPQ)

Posted: March 21, 2013 at 2:36 pm

North Korean television this morning broadcast another thinly veiled threat against the United States. In a translation provided by the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper, North Korea said: The U.S. should not ...
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Ten Companies Profiting Most from War

Posted: March 6, 2013 at 5:38 am

The business of war is profitable. In 2011, the 100 largest contractors sold $410 billion in arms and military services. Just 10 of those companies sold over $208 billion. Based ...
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The Impact of Spending Cuts on Defense Contractors (LMT, BA, NOC, GD, RTN)

Posted: February 27, 2013 at 11:50 am

If most Americans had ever heard the term “sequester” before last fall, they probably thought it meant something like entering a monastery or convent. But in the doublespeak of the ...
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Can U.S. Defense Stocks Survive Drastic Budget Cuts? (UBS, GD, RTN, ATK)

Posted: February 13, 2013 at 8:50 am

If there is one thing a U.S. politician does not want to appear after the horror of 9/11, it is being weak on defense. Yet with the exception of entitlements, ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — January 23, 2013: Market Open Higher on Little News (COST, GE, VZ, F, INCY, AMD, CSX, GOOG, IBM, IGT, TXN, ABT, BHI, COH, GD, MCD, LCC, AAPL, AMGN, NFLX, SNDK, FFIV, NE, NVR, WDC, MMM, BMY, LMT, RYN, LUV, UNP, UAL, XRX, MAPP, AGN, NMRX, MCP)

Posted: January 23, 2013 at 4:05 pm

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following a string of solid earnings reports yesterday and after markets closed last night. As we note below, earnings results were more mixed ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — January 22, 2013: Markets Shake Off Early Doldrums (TWC, SLB, DISH, ARMH, LNKD, DAL, FCX, JNJ, KSU, RF, VZ, AMD, CSX, GOOG, IBM, IGT, TXN, ABT, BHI, COH, GD, MCD, LCC, RIMM, DQ, LDK, ARNA)

Posted: January 22, 2013 at 4:04 pm

U.S. equity markets opened about flat this morning following the holiday weekend in the U.S. Foreign markets were also more or less mixed. In Europe, the German and eurozone economic ...
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UBS Sees Growth Outshining the American Taxpayer Relief Act

Posted: January 3, 2013 at 9:13 am

With a down to the wire timing that has become a tradition in Washington D.C., the House and the Senate approved what is being called the The American Taxpayer Relief ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — October 24, 2012: Markets Can’t Hold Morning Gains (BUD, NOK, CHKP, AAPL, DLTR, AMGN, BRCM, FB, JNPR, NFLX, T, BA, GLW, LLY, EMC, GD, LCC, ANGI, CLF, CROX, FFIV, RRC, RYL, AET, ZNGA, ALK, AN, BG, CL, DNKN, NOV, POT, UAL, RF, TPX, ZZ, ATI)

Posted: October 24, 2012 at 4:05 pm

The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher this morning following a better-than-expected PMI reading from China (more coverage here) that was mostly untempered by lower-than-expected PMI readings from Europe ...
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Defense Firms’ Earnings Mixed (GD, NOC)

Posted: October 24, 2012 at 7:53 am

Defense contractors General Dynamics Corp. (NYSE: GD) and Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE: NOC) reported third quarter 2012 results before markets opened this morning. General Dynamics posted diluted earnings per share ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — October 23, 2012: Markets Follow Earnings Lower (BTU, BHI, P, YHOO, MNST, CE, WDC, TXN, MMM, ARMH, AKS, COH, HOG, RSH, UPS, UTX, XRX, AMGN, BRCM, FB, JNPR, NFLX, T, BA, GLW, DAL, LLY, EMC, GD, LCC, DD, BSDM)

Posted: October 23, 2012 at 4:03 pm

The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning and remained in negative territory all day. The decline is down to weak earnings from many U.S. firms reporting results ...
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Defense Mergers Still Likely After BAE-EADS Failure (LMT, BA, NOC, RTN, GD)

Posted: October 12, 2012 at 2:07 pm

The defense industry has been warning about the effects of the coming fiscal cliff for several months now. If Congress fails to come to a resolution on how the U.S. ...
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Lockheed Martin Dividend Hike, Now Yields 5%!!!

Posted: September 27, 2012 at 1:12 pm

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has just joined the dividend hike brigade. We have previously written that this would likely be the case and the hike was right in line with ...
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