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Investing
America’s Worst Boards
At a time when corporate malfeasance is high on the public radar, it is important to understand corporate structure and how the checks and balances within a public company operate. GMI, a…
Companies
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Companies and Brands
Activism Runs Into Headwinds At P&G
Jon OggNews that activist investor Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square is going after Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) has certainly rekindled interest in what was growing (or declining) into nothing more than just…
1:11pm ET
Investing
First Solar Shares Rise … Just Because
Shares of First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) are up about 8% in the early afternoon on the company’s announcement that it has now installed another 100 megawatts of solar panels at its…
8:04am ET
Investing
Warren Buffett Unsure of Euro’s Future Even One-Year Out!
Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has been on CNBC this morning and he has an interesting observation about the future of the Euro. When asked about whether the Euro…
Jon C. Ogg 8:14am ET
Investing
The Next Mergers & Buyouts For 2012
As of late last week we had many potentially imminent buyouts that could have hit the market. When we were just finishing the report draft on Friday is when the Amylin Pharmaceuticals,…
6:20am ET
Media
Investors in the Content Business Dwindle Again?
The argument goes that if News Corp. (NASDAQ: NWS) spins off its print businesses, they will be unable to keep their editorial costs at current levels. Some of the properties in this…
2:54pm ET
Banking, finance, and taxes
Financing Green Energy Projects Must Move to Capital Markets (MHP, FSLR, BRK-A, BRK-B, NRG)
At last week’s Rio+20 conference in Brazil, a representative of Standard & Poor’s Latin American office told a panel on sustainable development that “banks and utilities are unlikeloy to provide financing of…
8:17am ET
Special Report
The 7 Safest Banks in America
Moody’s recent downgrade of 15 of the world’s largest banks, along with JP Morgan Chase & Co.’s (NYSE: JPM) multibillion trading loss, make it clear that certain big banks are just not…
12:30pm ET
Companies and Brands
Expect More Break-Up Calls For P&G (PG, CL, KMB, CHD, BRK-A, BLK, STT)
The calls for Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) to unlock shareholder value are growing. This is a classic defensive stock with a big dividend, but if you eliminate the great recession…
8:38am ET
Investing
The 2012 Dividend Sinners: 20 Companies That Don’t Pay Dividends But Should
24/7 Wall St. loves companies which send capital back to shareholders via dividends. With all of the uncertainty in today’s markets and in the fluctuating economy, having a solid dividend policy may…
12:55pm ET
Investing
As the World Burns… Buffett & Berkshire Spending Billions For Private Jets and Mortgage Assets (BRK-A, BRK-B, TXT, FIG)
If you have watched the flow of news out of Asia and Europe over the last month, you might have had a reason to think that the world was going to hell in a handbasket. …
6:10am ET
Media
Media Digest (6/12/2012) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg
Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) will challenge Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) with its own map service. (Reuters) A Manpower Group survey shows that companies in most parts of the world do not want to add…
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Investing
24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — June 6, 2012 (FB, GRPN, CHK, PHM, SHW, HOV, AMSC, CYBX, MTN, CMVT, SJM, LULU, PBY, TITN, LEE, BRK-A, BRK-B, TPX, FCEL)
The three major US stock indexes opened higher this morning despite the refusal of the European Central Bank to lower its interest rates (our story here) and a lower-than-expected rise in US…
4:16pm ET
Media
Buffett Takes Stake in Lee for Newspapers, More to Come? (LEE, BRK-A, BRK-B, MEG, GCI, MNI, DJCO, BLC)
Lee Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: LEE) is a tiny media company with news and advertising. It serves midsize and small markets in the United States with 52 daily and 39 Sunday newspapers, as…
6:40am ET
Investing
Companies Where Shareholders Have No Power — At All
Publicly traded companies, by definition, have many shareholders. The company’s management is supposed to be accountable to those shareholders. As it turns out, however, in some cases shareholders have limited power, and in…