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Pepsi Earnings Growth Meets Large Layoffs (PEP, KO)

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 7:50 am

PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) is trying to turn a wrong-way ship.  Whether this is the right path is going to be up for debate.  During a recovery, layoffs are not always viewed ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (SIRI, IBM, AZN, URBN, ZOLT, YUM, MT, BP, KO, EMR, LPX, MNI, CSTR, SPF, NSU, BPAX)

Posted: February 7, 2012 at 4:06 pm

US equity markets opened lower this morning, but after the first hour or so of trading, the three major indexes moved to positive territory where they remained for the rest ...
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Coke Has Positive Earnings, and a Smile (KO)

Posted: February 7, 2012 at 7:44 am

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) has managed to beat earnings and shares are trading higher in the pre-market after the report.  On an operational and normalized basis, Coca-Cola's earnings hit ...
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Top Earnings Previews For Tuesday (NLY, BP, BWLD, CERN, CHD, KO, EMR, HIG, JIVE, NTGR, OPEN, PNRA, SNCR, TM, DIS)

Posted: February 6, 2012 at 1:24 pm

We are getting into the last of the normalized quarterly earnings reports and into the first waves of the companies with off-normal quarter-ends.  Tuesday is going to be another busy ...
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Eight Brands That Wasted the Most on the Super Bowl

Posted: February 1, 2012 at 11:29 pm

A 30-second ad spot in this year’s Super Bowl costs an average of $3.5 million. That’s an 84% increase from 10 years ago and the highest amount advertisers have ever ...
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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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Top Brands in 2011 (KO, IBM, MSFT, GOOG, GE, MCD, INTC, AAPL, DIS, HPQ, NOK, CSCO, TM, AMZN, F, HMC, DE)

Posted: January 17, 2012 at 9:24 am

Brand consultancy Interbrand has issued its latest report on brand value, and while the top five did not change, a gap is opening between the fourth and fifth place finishers.  ...
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Media Digest (1/12/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 12, 2012 at 6:27 am

Olympus may partner with Samsung. (Reuters) RBS cuts 3,500 investment bank jobs. (Reuters) RealtyTrac reports that foreclosures reached a four-year low in 2011. (Reuters) International Monetary Fund senior executive Lipton ...
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The Most Popular American Companies in China

Posted: January 3, 2012 at 6:41 am

The primary reason, it is often argued, that China is an important market for many large U.S. companies is that its population has doubled since the early 1960s. But the ...
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Even More DJIA Dividend Hikes Coming Soon (BA, GE, DIS, T, PFE, CSCO, KO, XOM, IBM, JNJ, JPM, MMM, WMT, DVY, VIG, PFM, HDV)

Posted: December 20, 2011 at 8:01 am

Throughout December we have been giving updates on dividends that will rise in the coming days and weeks from the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks. Many have already come ...
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More DJIA Stocks Set to Hike Dividends Very Soon (DIS, DIA, T, VZ, CSCO, KO, IBM, JNJ, JPM, MMM, PFE, MRK, WMT, DVY, VIG, PFM, HDV)

Posted: December 2, 2011 at 6:31 am

Dividends are still rising and equity and income investors should expect more of the same for 2012. The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) joined in on the dividend hike brigade with ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (HPQ, KO, LEN, PEP, CREE, ANN, CPWM, HNZ, CRMT, CRM, BONT, CF, MOS, FSCI, CLWR, MTOR, MRVL)

Posted: November 18, 2011 at 4:09 pm

Stocks got off on a positive note this morning, but resisted the temptation to climb based on a positive reading of the leading econonmic indicators and higher estimates of US ...
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The Sodas America No Longer Drinks

Posted: November 18, 2011 at 1:29 pm

The soda industry has a problem. Some of the industry’s largest selling and most famous brands have lost well over a third of their sales in the last decade. ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (NLY, ARUN, COG, KO, CREE, DRI, HPQ, HMC, LEN, PEP, KWR, SFD, VECO)

Posted: November 18, 2011 at 8:15 am

These are some of Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls. Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY) Cut to Market Perform at KBW. Aruba Networks, ...
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All 30 DJIA Dividend Trends into 2012, Stock by Stock (DIA, AA, AXP, T, BAC, BA, CAT, CVX, CSCO, KO, DD, XOM, GE, HD, HPQ, IBM, INTC, JNJ, JPM, KFT, MCD, MMM, MRK, MSFT, PFE, PG, TRV, UTX, VZ, WMT, DIS)

Posted: November 15, 2011 at 2:17 pm

The economic choppiness is coming to a head with the age of dividend hikes. The pressure is going to remain for companies to continue returning capital to shareholders while also ...
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