Year: <span>2010</span>
The acquisition of XTO Energy by Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) instantly turned the oil giant into the largest natural gas producer in the US. We’ve already had our say about Exxon’s prospects...
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We have already introduced the 2011 Dogs of the Dow for investors looking into 2011. The term “dogs” might imply that they are the worst performers when they are actually just the...
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How big oil stocks perform in 2011 will be highly dependent on the price of crude oil. That’s not a particularly original thought, but it remains true nonetheless. The price of crude fluctuated...
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The Dogs of the Dow is an investment strategy which annually selects the ten highest dividend yields of all thirty Dow Jones Industrial Average components. Because we are going for the timeless...
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Active traders and day traders have many stocks to choose from this Thursday morning. We are tracking news and moves in shares of Endo Pharmaceutical Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ENDP), Ossen Innovation...
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Silver prices have risen more than 80% in 2010, far more than either gold, at about 26%, and copper, at around 28%. Aside from speculation, there are a couple of reasons for the enormous jump in...
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The weekly jobless claims will sound great on the surface for the last report of the year. Much of this is due to seasonality as many were not heading to the jobless lines. This is the lowest...
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The research calls are running light this week with many firms still on skeleton crews. These are some of this Thursday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street...
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Groupon has become rather well known for its web ads calling for local discounts for those who join. A possible buyout from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), which Groupon ultimately rejected, brought it...
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Updated throughout the day.Groupon will go public at the end of 2011 (NYT)Carlyle Group will sell its 2.5% stake in China Pacific Insurance for $860 million (Reuters)Douglas A. McIntyre Sponsored:...
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Sixty-five percent of American internet users have paid for content, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The figure does not mean much if theses will not pay for content again and...
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Tens of thousands of new products are released at the annual Consumer Electronics Show held once a year in Las Vegas. Technology company executives party late into the night and rise early to manage...
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The HSBC study of China’s purchasing manufacturing index, which closely parallels the official numbers from the People’s Republic, dropped to 54.4 from 55.3 in November. Analysts seized on the...
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China’s PMI growth slowed and the current monetary policy may be sufficient to curb inflation (Reuters)The use of solar power by China is rapidly expanding (Reuters)Sony (NYSE: SNE) sued to stop...
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There have been 10 calendar years during the last one hundred in which the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by more than 30%. The reason for the sharp increases were, in some cases, due to very...
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