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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/16/2012) New Greek Elections, Oil Prices Fall

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 6:43 am

It appears increasingly likely that concerns about the future of Greece will depress equity markets worldwide. Politicians in the country have failed to set a coalition government, despite several efforts. ...
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Media Digest (5/16/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 6:28 am

The number of shares Facebook will sell rose 25% and the company could raise as much as $16 billion. (Reuters) Greeks take hundreds of millions of dollars out of banks ...
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Big Shareholder Attacks Pepsi

Posted: May 16, 2012 at 6:28 am

Shareholder activist firm Relational Investors  has bought $600 million of PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) shares according to The Wall Street Journal. Large companies are not immune from the kind of attacks ...
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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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Monster… A Tale of Earnings Clouded By M&A Dreams (MNST, KO, PEP)

Posted: May 10, 2012 at 9:02 am

Monster Beverage Corporation (NASDAQ: MNST) is looking like a monster all on its own after earnings this morning.  The specialty energy drink maker is seeing shares rise in the double-digit ...
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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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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (FSLR, PEP, PG, ILMN, CCL, ANV, AWR, BBEP, CDE, DISH, LPX, TSN, HFC, CHTR, DMD, HL, OMX, THC, WEN, DIS, VRTX, CTSH, BSFT)

Posted: May 7, 2012 at 4:08 pm

The major US stock indexes opened lower this morning following a weekend of elections in Europe. A new Socialist party president in France and a still very cloudy future in ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BNNY, CAB, CCL, CTRN, DPS, FSLR, ILMN, LEAP, NWL, PEP, PG, TWX, WDC)

Posted: May 7, 2012 at 8:32 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Monday. Annie's, Inc. (NYSE: BNNY) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan; Started as ...
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Coke Ready to Swallow a Monster? (KO, MNST, PEP, DPS)

Posted: April 30, 2012 at 2:53 pm

When the largest soft-drink company in the US can’t make a competitive product in a growing market, it looks around for a company it can buy. It appears that the ...
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Media Digest (4/30/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 30, 2012 at 6:34 am

Philp Falcone receives extensions from creditors owed money by his high-speed wireless company LightSquared. (Reuters) Social gifting is a growing part of e-commerce. (Reuters) Barron’s says Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (GD, ABB, HOG, COP, S, ALU, MO, PEP, TLAB, XOM, AET, BMY, BG, JBLU, LIZ, MJN, REGN, SWY, SWC, TASR, UPS, YNDX, NRGY, SPH, LEAP, AKAM)

Posted: April 26, 2012 at 4:06 pm

Markets opened a few ticks lower this morning after a poor report on new claims for unemployment benefits in the US (our coverage here). The report that pending home sales ...
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Pepsi Bubbles Along (PEP, KO, CCE, COKE, CCH, KOF)

Posted: April 26, 2012 at 8:23 am

Soft drink and snack food giant Pepsico Inc. (NYSE: PEP) reported first quarter earnings this morning that topped expectations. Adjusted EPS came in at $0.69 versus a consensus estimate of ...
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Coca-Cola Adopts 1990′s Strategy: 2-for-1 Stock Split (KO, PEP)

Posted: April 25, 2012 at 9:23 am

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is going to try a new strategy that we have not seen from the company since literally the 1990s... It is splitting its shares. The ...
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Who Would Replace Walmart’s CEO and Its Chairman?

Posted: April 22, 2012 at 11:44 am

The Walmart statement of ethics is the core of the company’s values: Each business organization Walmart operates is expected to have a complete set of policies providing guidance to associates for whatever country they are working in. ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (TWX, DIS, PEP, KBH, FSLR, PLOW, FCEL, NNBR, VELT, HTH, ODC, MIDD, TODU, PCBC, ANTH, TZYM, CDTI)

Posted: March 12, 2012 at 4:06 pm

US markets opened mixed this morning as there was not a big piece of news to drive investors in any particular direction. The Greek debt swap deal triggered a credit ...
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