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Winners as Pfizer Loses Lipitor Patent (PFE, TEVA, MYL, WPI)

Posted: November 29, 2011 at 11:28 am

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) has a big day ahead of it.  While it has been known for years, it is a massive date: Lipitor goes off-patent and will have generic ...
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Probing for Value in Big Pharmaceutical Stocks (JNJ, PFE, AZN, BMY, MRK)

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 1:47 pm

It now costs about $1 billion to get a new drug to market, or, if a company is unlucky, $1 billion to fail to get the drug to market. Like ...
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Media Digest (11/21/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 5:45 am

The supercommittee appears unlikely to settle on a deficit agreement. (Reuters) A senior Chinese official says he expects the global recession to last for some time. (Reuters) Spain’s center-right People’s ...
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November Share Buybacks Already Nearing $30 Billion (ALL, AIG, CBS, FIS, PFE, RAI, SBUX, SYY, TMO, VIA, VRX, PKW)

Posted: November 16, 2011 at 10:57 am

Some companies just want to keep bringing on new share buybacks whether they work or not.  Some are to stop dilution from acquisitions or employee stock options, while others are ...
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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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Media Digest (11/2/2011) Reuters, WSJ

Posted: November 2, 2011 at 6:24 am

George Papandreou convinces the Greek cabinet of the virtues of a national referendum on budget cuts, but he now faces the leaders of France and Germany. (Reuters) The FBI may ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (F, GM, NBG, ALU, YHOO, PFE, HD, ADM, BBX, EXEL)

Posted: November 1, 2011 at 4:08 pm

The markets are beyond jittery.  From a massively overbought market discounting a recession entirely back to a market dominated by the woes of Europe.  The Europeans cannot get their bailouts straight ...
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Top 12 Earnings and Economic Events This Coming Week (ADM, DNKN, PFE, GM, F, CMCSA, KFT, QCOM, WFM, AIG, EK, LNKD, SBUX, GMCR, ALU)

Posted: October 30, 2011 at 11:11 am

Earnings season is still running strong and the economic readings keep coming out as well. As we come to the end of October, there is going to be plenty of ...
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Shorts Exit Weak Shares (EK, AMR, BP, LVLT)

Posted: October 26, 2011 at 6:28 am

Short sellers moved out of stocks that have fallen recently. Perhaps they believe there will be a large rally in the market. There is little else to make the shares ...
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Novartis Cuts 2,000 as Pharma Industry Continues to Falter

Posted: October 25, 2011 at 6:24 am

Novartis (NYSE: NVS) said it would cut 2,000 workers and outsource some functions to companies that will do the work for less than it can. Novartis will take a restructuring ...
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R&D Spenders Get No Respect

Posted: October 24, 2011 at 6:33 am

A company can spend billions of dollars on R&D and get little respect as an innovator. Even though that is the conclusion of a new study by Booz & Co., ...
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Lilly’s Drugs Closer to Edge of Patent Cliff (LLY, PFE, JNJ, BMY, SNY, MRK)

Posted: October 20, 2011 at 10:58 am

Drug maker Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE: LLY) reported third-quarter earnings this morning, and the company did a little better than analysts expected, but worries persist that the company will ...
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Expected Upside Gains for Leading Pharmaceutical Companies (JNJ, PFE, AZN, BMY, MRK)

Posted: October 12, 2011 at 2:10 pm

Sales for the big pharmaceutical companies are expected to be hit by pricing pressure in Europe, a lack of urgent new on the coming flu season, lower rates of prescription ...
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30-Year Auction: 12 of 30 DJIA Stocks Outyield Long Bond (T, CVX, DD, GE, INTC, JNJ, KFT, MRK, PFE, PG, TRV, VZ)

Posted: September 14, 2011 at 1:44 pm

The 30-Year Treasury auction, the so-called Long Bond, had a strong participation for what is technically a 29-year and 11-month bond.  The participation rate was strong enough that this still ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ALKS, AMP, BWA, CSCO, CLB, DD, GTIV, HIG, JASO, JPM, JWN, NSC, ORCL, PFE, STP, TSL, UAL)

Posted: September 14, 2011 at 8:12 am

These are some of this Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen having an impact from Wall Street research calls. Alkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALKS) Removed from US 1 List ...
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