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DJIA Earnings Season: Bad News Is Good News

Posted: April 19, 2013 at 11:50 am

The bull market had no economic announcements to propel stocks on Friday. Most earnings reports in the past 48 hours from Dow Jones Industrial Average companies have been lackluster, but ...
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IBM Cannot Grow Any More

Posted: April 19, 2013 at 6:41 am

International Business Machine Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has lost the capacity for revenue growth. The troubling trend began a long time ago. Its recent earnings confirmed that the huge tech firm ...
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Media Digest (4/19/2013) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 19, 2013 at 6:39 am

Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) will halt its bid for Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL). (Reuters) Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) announces CFO departure as it posts strong earnings. (Reuters) Google Inc. ...
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IBM Corporate Earnings Face Revenue Decline, to Pressure DJIA

Posted: April 18, 2013 at 4:17 pm

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) reported its corporate earnings for its first quarter. The report came to $3.00 in operating earnings per share and $23.4 billion in revenue. Thomson ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — April 18, 2013: Markets Cool on Jobs, Manufacturing Data

Posted: April 18, 2013 at 4:05 pm

U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning following the report on U.S. jobless numbers (more coverage here). In Europe, the only data out today showed that U.K. retail sales ...
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Why Investors Should Demand Much Higher Dividends from IBM

Posted: April 15, 2013 at 12:05 pm

International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) is set to report earnings this Thursday, and we have Big Blue as one of our top DJIA expected dividend hikes for the month ...
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Dell Deal in Danger as PC Sales Fall

Posted: April 11, 2013 at 6:29 am

A drop in first-quarter PC sales reported by research firm IDC was blamed, to some extent, on the public's rejection of Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows 8. The rise of ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — April 10, 2013: Markets Set New Highs Again (ARO, HLF, IBM, IEP, THC, PSMT, KMX, STZ, FDO, JKS, TITN, ADTN, BBBY, NG, PIR, LEDS, FSLR, ABX, NOK)

Posted: April 10, 2013 at 4:04 pm

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning and both the DJIA and the S&P 500 climbed to new intra-day highs (more coverage here). The Fed mistakenly released FOMC minutes early ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ARO, AGU, AIZ, CYH, CYS, EXPD, HMA, HLF, IEP, IBM, NTAP, NFLX, QCOM, SI, THC)

Posted: April 10, 2013 at 8:35 am

Investors and traders are often on the hunt for new ideas to generate income and profits. 24/7 Wall St. is always reviewing fresh research calls to find great ideas from ...
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Deutsche Bank Lists Stocks to Buy Now, Even If You Missed the Bull Market (CBS, DD, DIS, HON, IBM, LYB, MCD, SLB, WYNN, AA)

Posted: April 8, 2013 at 8:30 am

The first-quarter earning season begins today with the quarterly ritual of perennial lousy, or at least lackluster, earnings leading off the deluge of reports, from aluminum giant Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: ...
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Larry Ellison, Highest Paid CEO of 2012

Posted: April 8, 2013 at 6:55 am

CNN Money released its list of the 20 highest paid chief executive officers of 2012. It was refreshing to see some of the CEOs that have led their companies to ...
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What Is Important in the Financial World (4/8/2013)

Posted: April 8, 2013 at 6:40 am

Portugal Austerity Ruling The highest court in Portugal ruled that some of the austerity measures to be employed by the government to curtail deficits are not constitutional. In reaction, the ...
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HP Board Changes Mean Nothing

Posted: April 5, 2013 at 6:17 am

Two humiliated members of the board of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) left and Chairman Ray Lane stepped down but will remain on the board. These actions address legacy issues, but ...
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How Much DJIA Dividends Will Get Raised in April (XOM, CVX, IBM, JNJ, DOW, DD, CSCO, MSFT, GE)

Posted: April 4, 2013 at 8:20 am

The markets may have topped and are acting choppy after Fed speak and after North Korean rhetoric, but U.S. investors can count on several big dividend hikes that we see ...
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The Big Bull Market Road Map for April

Posted: March 29, 2013 at 9:30 am

The end of March brought on the last trading of the quarter, with the S&P Index hitting new all-time closing highs in what felt like a very choppy couple of ...
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