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What’s Important in the Financial World (5/24/2012) Costco Earnings, Oil Below $90

Oil has hit an extraordinarily low price, below $90 a barrel for WTI crude. That is the lowest level since October. It shows no inclination to spike back up. PMI data from Europe and ...
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A Look Back At Largest IPOs

A quick review of the 25 largest US IPOs ever shows how badly Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) has done in early trading. Most of the company's on the list have tremendous revenue, ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — May 17, 2012

The three major US stock indexes opened essentially flat this morning as investors were faced with a flat report on new claims for jobless benefits (our coverage here). Manufacturing data ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ANF, A, BBVA, CME, CROX, DE, DELL, DKS, HLF, HP, HBAN, ICE, LM, SINA, V, WAT)

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls this Thursday. Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) Cut to Market Perform at Wells ...
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Big Changes to Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings, A to Z

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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Most Likely Stock Purchases By Warren Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B, CVS, DVA, DTV, DG, GD, INTC, IBM, LMCA, V, WFC)

Warren Buffett hosted the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) over the weekend and this Monday morning he gave a long interview to CNBC.  In the interview Mr. Buffett noted how ...
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Visa & Mastercard Get DOJ Curveball (V, MA)

Visa, Inc. (NYSE: V) and Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) should both be trading higher this morning if you were only looking at the earnings reports from Wednesday.  Both credit card ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell (WPI, AZN, ANF, SPWR, YGE, COST, MERU, ACI, VECO, PBY, ADM, CPO, AVP, DPZ, PFE, VLO, ABX, JDSU, MRO, FSLR, V, PFCB, DAL, CHK)

The major US stock indexes opened flat this morning but started to move higher following the better-than-expected ISM report on manufacturing (our coverage here). Construction spending in the US was ...
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American Companies with the Most Customers

Last week, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) announced that it sold 35.1 million iPhones worldwide in the latest quarter. The figure is large, but not extraordinary. Some consumer products and consumer electronics ...
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The Top Earnings Previews For The Week Ahead (NYX, ACI, ADM, BRCM, CHK, SIRI, VLO, AWK, NLY, CMCSA, FSLR, GRMN, HIG, MA, SYMC, V, WFM)

Earnings season is in full swing and the coming week is going to be extremely active with big earnings reports.  24/7 Wall St. has tried to preview several top earnings for ...
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The Strongest Stock Charts In The S&P 500 (AZO, CCI, CMG, FMC, GPS, PPG, RHT, TSS, V, WFM)

24/7 Wall St. has partnered with The Chart Lab to bring regular reviews of the strongest and weakest stock charts in the S&P 500 Index.  This weekend's review is tracking the ...
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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)

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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Credit Card Swipe Fees on Gasoline Blasted (V, MA, AXP, DFS)

We noted earlier this morning how lenders and credit card issuers were trying to beef up revenues by going back into the sub-prime market. Another way banks and card issuers ...
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Visa, Mastercard Warn of Security Breach (V, MA)

US credit card giants Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) and Mastercard Inc. (NYSE: MA) have reported possible security breaches to law enforcement officials and card-issuing banks. A report on the KrebsonSecurity ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ADP, FSLR, FIO, HLF, IACI, MA, PAYX, PRA, SD, TRN, UPL, V, WAG, WEN)

These are some of this Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADP) Started as Buy at UBS. First ...
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