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Deutsche Bank Raises Targets and Estimates on Hospitals and Health Care Facility Stocks (DB, THC, HCA, VHS, CYH, HMA, UHS, LPNT)

Posted: January 31, 2013 at 8:31 am

Hospitals and health care facilities to most of us are like the police station. You are glad they are there, but you don’t really want to go. When it comes ...
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J.P. Morgan Sees More Upside in Hospital Stocks (CYH, HCA, LPNT, THC, UHS, HMA, VHS)

Posted: December 18, 2012 at 8:11 am

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) has issued a research call that calls for some very large upside in the hospital sector. We would note that most of these ...
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More Big Special Dividends (CATO, DISH, HCA)

Posted: December 3, 2012 at 8:54 am

We have more of the special dividends and dividend payout accelerations ahead of the coming fiscal cliff. Companies are trying to maximize their tax efficiency ahead of the increase of ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — November 7, 2012: Markets Dive After U.S. Elections (AOL, HCA, HUM, WPRT, TWC, NWSA, RAX, TWO, AES, AGU, HFC, LEAP, M, THC, TWX, WLP, ATVI, CTL, KGC, MNST, PAAS, WFM, CG, DF, KSS, WEN, JRCC, PLXS)

Posted: November 7, 2012 at 4:03 pm

U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning as traders and investors tried to sort out their reactions to the re-election of President Obama. The initial reaction is that the U.S. ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ALL, AOL, MT, DD, DANG, ESRX, HK, HCA, ONE, HUM, STEC, TWC, THS, WLP, WPRT)

Posted: November 7, 2012 at 8:26 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall St. research calls this Wednesday. Allstate Corp. (NYSE: ALL) reiterated Buy but raised target to $46 ...
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2012 Election Winners and Losers: Coal, Dividends, Health Care, Utilities, Oil and More

Posted: November 7, 2012 at 8:10 am

Election Day has come and gone. President Obama won a second term. The current electoral vote was by a margin of about 3 to 2 (unofficial), but the percentage last ...
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Election Day Rally… Risk-On or Inflation Trade?

Posted: November 6, 2012 at 12:29 pm

On the day that the Presidential election is happening, investors are throwing money into the inflation winners. The problem is that maybe this is not an inflation trade. Maybe it ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — November 1, 2012: Markets Pick Up Some Steam Today (NFLX, TWX, JCP, RVBD, CMVT, ALL, CZR, HTZ, MUR, APA, EXC, XOM, HCA, RGLD, RATE, CHK, FLR, GDOT, LVS, PCLN, SBUX, YELP, CVX, HES, MHP, OZM, RL, KSWS, ZUMZ, RIMM)

Posted: November 1, 2012 at 4:04 pm

U.S. equity markets opened higher following a spate of moderately good news on U.S. employment. The ADP report showed job gains (more coverage here), and the report on new claims ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — October 31, 2012: Markets Open Higher Only to Flatten Out (RVBD, S, UBS, D, VLO, BUD, MT, CAM, CNH, COCO, CMI, ETN, H, MA, PSX, CLX, WM, ALL, CZR, HTZ, MUR, APA, CVC, EXC, XOM, HCA, RGLD, F, WRC, PVH, WU)

Posted: October 31, 2012 at 4:42 pm

U.S. equity markets re-opened for business in New York this morning after a two-day shutdown forced by Hurricane Sandy. Markets opened higher, but lost their energy by mid-morning. Asian markets ...
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Media Digest (8/7/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 7, 2012 at 6:34 am

Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) sells assets to improve earnings. (Reuters) Standard Chartered may lose its New York banking license over allegations it hid $250 billion in transactions tied to Iran. ...
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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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HCA Tops Estimates Due to Higher Admissions

Posted: August 6, 2012 at 9:05 am

Hospital operator HCA Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HCA) reported a better-than-expected second-quarter profit due to higher patient admissions. Net income for the quarter rose to $391 million, or $0.85 cents per ...
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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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Supreme Court Rules on Healthcare, The Fallout By Sector (Updated)

Posted: June 28, 2012 at 10:38 am

Thursday was D-Day for the Supreme Court decision on the Obama healthcare mandate as to its constitutionality. The long and short of it is that the mandate is constitutional as ...
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Top Debt & Credit Rating Agency Actions (CLX, HD, HCA, GCI, ADM, NFX, LUV, AMR)

Posted: September 27, 2011 at 1:30 pm

Today's reported ratings actions as of just after noon include announcements regarding Clorox Co. (NYSE: CLX), Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD), HCA Inc. (NYSE: HCA), Gannett Co. Inc. (NYSE: GCI), ...
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