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Dendreon In Trouble

Posted: May 17, 2012 at 11:35 am

Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN) is in trouble.  That is what the performance is telling investors.  The maker of Provenge as a late-stage prostate cancer treatment has three issues working against ...
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Big Changes to Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings, A to Z

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 5:05 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings for the Berkshire Hathaway empire. This cut off date is as of ...
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Avon: Coty Will Be Back

Posted: May 15, 2012 at 6:27 am

Coty, which had made a $10.7 billion offer to buy Avon Products (NYSE: AVP), withdrew its bid. It said the the Avon board had failed to react to its offer ...
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Investors Seeking Defensive Stocks Where 3% to Over 5% Dividends Rule!

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 1:14 pm

A stock market that sells off eight of nine days is not a good market.  Even the Facebook IPO is being viewed as a one-off item rather than a systemic ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/14/2012) Greek Elections, “The Avengers”

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 6:34 am

Coalition talks in Greece have broken down and are not likely to resume. This means new elections are almost inevitable. That will delay the ability of the European Union and ...
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Avon To Take Coty Bid?

Posted: May 14, 2012 at 6:15 am

Avon Products (NYSE: AVP) said it will take a week to decide whether it will negotiate a new, sweetened deal from Coty. Coty has just gotten financial support from ...
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The Market Where Defensive Shares Are Working Again (PEP, KO, BUD, TAP, AWK, MCD, KFT, CAG, CPB, HRL, MO, VGR, RAI, PG, KMB, CL, MRK, PFE, JNJ, T, VZ)

Posted: May 8, 2012 at 12:07 pm

Blame whatever you want.  A weaker U.S. economy, a weakening and flailing Europe, a move to socialism in France and Greece, a weaker BRIC and emerging market story, commodity prices ...
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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/3/2012) Chrysler Plants Open, Roubini’s Iran Worries

Posted: May 3, 2012 at 6:52 am

The government of Spain got lucky. It planned to raise over 2 billion euros in debt. The amount sold was more than that -- 2.5 billion. The international capital markets ...
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24/7 Wall St. Top Dividend Stories of the Week

Posted: April 28, 2012 at 7:01 am

This was a huge week in dividends, particularly for the key DJIA components.  We had a report calling for more and more dividend hikes of about 8% from the DJIA ...
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P&G’s Forecast Dims Consumer Goods Sector (PG, JNJ, CL, KMB)

Posted: April 27, 2012 at 10:55 am

Consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) reported third fiscal quarter results this morning that were about in-line with expectations, but the company’s lowered full-year forecast is pushing ...
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J&J Joins Dividend Hike One-Up Game (JNJ, PFE, MRK)

Posted: April 26, 2012 at 11:13 am

How many DJIA components can raise their dividend in one week?  Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) answered that question as "Who knows, but we can make it one more!"  J&J ...
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Dividend Hikes To Continue in 2012 (T, XOM, GE, PFE, CVX, JNJ, MSFT, PG, CSCO, JPM, WMT, KO, MMM)

Posted: April 23, 2012 at 12:05 pm

Dividends have continued to rise.  Better yet, they are expected to keep rising for the rest of the year.  A study from Dow Jones Indexes showed a rise of almost ...
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Executive Pay Up 14% in 2011

Posted: April 19, 2012 at 12:09 pm

The data is from a major union, and, therefore, may have a bias against chief executives. Numbers can be bent. The AFL-CIO reports that CEO pay rose 14% last year: ...
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What Happens to Warren Buffett’s Top 10 Performing Stocks of 2012? (BRK-B, BRK-A, USG, IR, MCO, AXP, WFC, V, BK, VRSK, INTC, MA, AAPL, JNJ, BAC)

Posted: April 18, 2012 at 6:46 am

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) will be in the news quite a bit now that the world's most famous investor, chairman Warren Buffett, has been diagnosed with prostate ...
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Media Digest (4/18/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 18, 2012 at 6:30 am

Citigroup (NYSE: C) losses an investor vote on executive compensation. (Reuters) Many experts say Spain cannot avoid a bailout. (Reuters) Nestle is close to a deal to buy Pfizer’s (NYSE: ...
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