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Ten Cheap Products Making American Companies Billions

Posted: January 30, 2012 at 6:53 am

Just because certain products have a low price tag does not mean they cannot sell for billions of dollars. In fact, some of the cheapest products make the most money ...
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Corn Crop Booms, Prices to Fall (ADM, VLO, HML, TSN, GIS, K)

Posted: December 22, 2011 at 11:38 am

Fears for a supply shortage of corn earlier this year led the world’s farmers to plant more of the crop on expectations of higher prices. Now that the crop is ...
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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)

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 4:06 pm

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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ConAgra, General Mills Look Ahead to 2012… Quite Differently (CAG, GIS, KFT, HNZ, K)

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 1:56 pm

Food producers have been battling rising commodity costs, higher fuel costs, and higher packaging costs by raising their prices. That appears to be working decently for ConAgra Foods Inc. (NYSE: ...
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Food Processing Stocks With Most Upside (ADM, BG, TSN, SFD, CPO, CAG, KFT, SLE, GIS, K)

Posted: November 3, 2011 at 3:01 pm

The companies we’re looking at today run the gamut from large farm and food products producers to the packaged goods makers that make the products on store shelves. It’s a ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ARMH, CFN, COP, EIX, GIS, GS, PDLI, SAP, SFD, S, SYK, TEF, TI, TSN, VLO)

Posted: October 11, 2011 at 8:14 am

These are some of this Tuesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH) Raised to Buy at Citigroup. ...
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Media Digest (10/11/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 11, 2011 at 6:17 am

CEOs from General Electric (NYSE: GE), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Boeing (NYSE: BA) and other companies tell Obama in their President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness report that he must get more ...
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America’s Recession-Proof Companies

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 7:27 pm

With fears of a new economic downturn, investors have become concerned about sales and profits of large companies. But there are companies that have already proven themselves in the recent ...
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Poor Judgment by Ralcorp’s Board

Posted: September 27, 2011 at 6:26 am

Ralcorp’s (NYSE:RAH) board of directors unanimously rejected the latest merger proposal from ConAgra Foods (NYSE: CAG), saying the $5.18 billion unsolicited bid was not in the best interest of the ...
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ConAgra Misses on EPS, Ralcorp Acquisition (CAG, RAH, KFT, GIS, HNZ, SLE)

Posted: September 20, 2011 at 8:33 am

Food processing giant ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) reported first quarter 2012 earnings before the markets opened this morning. Even after lowering expectations for EPS from $0.36 to $0.31, analysts ...
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Top Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (LEN, ADBE, CCL, CAG, JEF, ORCL, BBBY, GIS, RHT, KMX, DFS, FDX, NKE, UA, RAD)

Posted: September 16, 2011 at 2:07 pm

The coming week is going to feel like a mini earnings season.  We have many sector leaders reporting earnings and the fallout (or benefits) could be widespread.  On deck are ...
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The Best Value Stocks in Food & Beverages (CPB, KO, CAG, DPS, GIS, HRL, K, KFT, PEP, TSN, SFD, DF, BRK-A)

Posted: September 13, 2011 at 12:37 pm

When it comes to defensive investing, food and beverages are two of the go-to sectors for getting equity market exposure but protecting your assets.  The logic is simple enough: “You ...
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Food, Ethanol Prices Set To Rise Again (ADM, DE, POT, VLO, PEIX, GPRE, KFT, SJM, GIS, K, TSN, HRL, SFD, MOO, DBA)

Posted: August 12, 2011 at 9:12 am

Hot, dry weather is now expected to reduce the US corn harvest and lift consumer prices for everything from breakfast cereal to pump prices at the local service station. Agricultural ...
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Media Digest (7/18/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 18, 2011 at 6:22 am

Democrats and Republicans are not closer to a deal on the debt ceiling (Reuters) The hacking scandal has pushed News Corp's shares (NYSE: NWS) even lower (Reuters) Moody's suggested that ...
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The Weeks Stock Market Winners: Eli Lilly, Goodyear, General Mills, and More

Posted: July 16, 2011 at 8:02 am

The number of stocks that made substantial gains for the week was limited. The great exception to that rule was Petrohawk Energy Corporation Co (NYSE: HK) which jumped 62.5% on ...
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