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Visa Beats Estimates but Gets No Glory

Posted: February 6, 2013 at 4:37 pm

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) reported first-quarter fiscal 2013 results after the markets closed today. Adjusted earnings per share (EPS) were $1.93 on revenues of $2.85 billion. In the first quarter ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — February 6, 2013: Markets Waver With Little New Data to Chew On (FSLR, JCP, WFC, ACI, ITRI, CMG, EXPE, GNW, TTWO, DIS, ZNGA, CVS, MRO, NUS, RL, SYT, TWX, FMC, GMCR, IACI, TSO, V, YELP, ALU, BG, CI, MWW, NYT, PM, S, TEVA, BCC, GDP, VOCS)

Posted: February 6, 2013 at 4:04 pm

U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning before bouncing into positive territory briefly and then turning south again. As happened yesterday, the focus was on Europe, where Italy’s oldest bank ...
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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — January 18, 2013: Markets Make Small Moves Today (INTC, MT, CS, RIMM, LVS, V, AXP, COF, GE, JCI, MS, COL, SLB, STI, DAL, FCX, JNJ, KSU, RF, VZ, NCLH, AMD, JRCC)

Posted: January 18, 2013 at 4:09 pm

U.S. equity markets opened mixed this morning, with the Nasdaq Composite lower on a weak quarterly earnings report last night from Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC). The big news for today ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (MT, COF, CAT, CNO, CS, CSX, EXPD, LVS, MAS, NFLX, QLIK, RIMM, ROC, RYAAY, SGY, V)

Posted: January 18, 2013 at 8:19 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen so far this Friday from Wall St. research calls: ArcelorMittal (NYSE: MT) raised to Neutral from Sell at ...
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Best CEOs of 2012

Posted: December 18, 2012 at 6:18 am

Best CEO lists can be based on dozens of factors. For public companies, the best metric is usually share price. It is hard for chief executives to be considered very ...
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Forget One-Time Dividends… Watch Massive Insider Selling Into Year-End

Posted: December 5, 2012 at 12:11 pm

We are seeing larger insider selling transactions ahead of year-end by many corporate insiders. With higher taxes on capital gains an almost certainty now, insiders are faced with a choice ...
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eCommerce Holiday Spending Continues Mega-Growth

Posted: November 27, 2012 at 12:40 pm

We are getting more and more data showing that the trends toward online spending for the holidays are continuing to show growth. We have seen data from the likes of ...
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Buffett’s Significant Changes to Berkshire Hathaway Stock Holdings

Posted: November 14, 2012 at 5:33 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) (NYSE: BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings. Many changes had been made in the June quarter and Mr. ...
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Massive Amounts of Insider Selling Right Before Presidential Election (AMG, AFL, CBRL, CCI, ETN, EXPE, GOOG, KSS, KKD, N, PNR, RJF, RHT, RVBD, STX, SIRI, V, YUM)

Posted: November 8, 2012 at 11:16 am

Apparently many executives decided to sell shares right before the presidential election. This is not an assumption that anything is wrong in the companies because insiders can sell shares for ...
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Media Digest (10/25/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NY Times, FT

Posted: October 25, 2012 at 6:18 am

Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY) cuts forecasts. (Reutesr) Spain will increase the rate at which its helps its regional governments. (Reuters) The federal government sues Bank of America Corp. ...
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Media Digest (10/17/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 17, 2012 at 6:33 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) supplier Foxconn says an underage worker was used at one of its facilities. (Reuters) Intel Corp.'s (NASDAQ: INTC) earnings raise more concern about PC sales. (Reuters) ...
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PNC Retains Safest Bank Status Despite Earnings Stumble

Posted: October 16, 2012 at 2:30 pm

PNC Financial Services Group Inc. (NYSE: PNC) is taking another breather after its earnings report today. The bank is rather important because it was one of our own picks which ...
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How Square Is Now Valued at $3.25 Billion

Posted: September 17, 2012 at 3:42 pm

So much for new-age virtual technology companies being at risk of more scrutiny for investors. AllThingsD and the FT have both reported that a pending fourth round of venture capital ...
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LinkedIn Market Value Surges Ahead of Other Web IPOs

Posted: August 15, 2012 at 6:41 am

LinkedIn Corp.'s (NYSE: LNKD) business model is supposed to be better than that of most other tech IPOs in the past year. The company has three lines of revenue: hiring solutions, ...
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Major Changes Made To Buffett & Berkshire Hathaway Stakes

Posted: August 14, 2012 at 5:03 pm

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) and Warren Buffett have just released their most recent U.S.-listed equity holdings showing that there have been some significant changes in the positions of ...
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