General Dynamics (GD) Stock Price, News & Analysis – Page 16

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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — January 23, 2013: Market Open Higher on Little News (COST, GE, VZ, F, INCY, AMD, CSX, GOOG, IBM, IGT, TXN, ABT, BHI, COH, GD, MCD, LCC, AAPL, AMGN, NFLX, SNDK, FFIV, NE, NVR, WDC, MMM, BMY, LMT, RYN, LUV, UNP, UAL, XRX, MAPP, AGN, NMRX, MCP)

U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following a string of solid earnings reports yesterday and after markets closed last night. As we note below, earnings results were more mixed today, but…

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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — January 22, 2013: Markets Shake Off Early Doldrums (TWC, SLB, DISH, ARMH, LNKD, DAL, FCX, JNJ, KSU, RF, VZ, AMD, CSX, GOOG, IBM, IGT, TXN, ABT, BHI, COH, GD, MCD, LCC, RIMM, DQ, LDK, ARNA)

U.S. equity markets opened about flat this morning following the holiday weekend in the U.S. Foreign markets were also more or less mixed. In Europe, the German and eurozone economic indexes came…

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9:13am ET

Investing

UBS Sees Growth Outshining the American Taxpayer Relief Act

thinkstockWith a down to the wire timing that has become a tradition in Washington D.C., the House and the Senate approved what is being called the The American Taxpayer Relief Act of…

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Jon C. Ogg

4:05pm ET

Investing

24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — October 24, 2012: Markets Can’t Hold Morning Gains (BUD, NOK, CHKP, AAPL, DLTR, AMGN, BRCM, FB, JNPR, NFLX, T, BA, GLW, LLY, EMC, GD, LCC, ANGI, CLF, CROX, FFIV, RRC, RYL, AET, ZNGA, ALK, AN, BG, CL, DNKN, NOV, POT, UAL, RF, TPX, ZZ, ATI)

The three major U.S. stock indexes opened higher this morning following a better-than-expected PMI reading from China (more coverage here) that was mostly untempered by lower-than-expected PMI readings from Europe (more coverage…

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7:53am ET

Military

Defense Firms’ Earnings Mixed (GD, NOC)

Defense contractors General Dynamics Corp. (NYSE: GD) and Northrop Grumman Corp. (NYSE: NOC) reported third quarter 2012 results before markets opened this morning. General Dynamics posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of…

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4:03pm ET

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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — October 23, 2012: Markets Follow Earnings Lower (BTU, BHI, P, YHOO, MNST, CE, WDC, TXN, MMM, ARMH, AKS, COH, HOG, RSH, UPS, UTX, XRX, AMGN, BRCM, FB, JNPR, NFLX, T, BA, GLW, DAL, LLY, EMC, GD, LCC, DD, BSDM)

The three major U.S. stock indexes opened lower this morning and remained in negative territory all day. The decline is down to weak earnings from many U.S. firms reporting results today. In…

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Paul Ausick

2:07pm ET

Defense Mergers Still Likely After BAE-EADS Failure (LMT, BA, NOC, RTN, GD)

The defense industry has been warning about the effects of the coming fiscal cliff for several months now. If Congress fails to come to a resolution on how the U.S. will begin…

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Paul Ausick

1:12pm ET

Military

Lockheed Martin Dividend Hike, Now Yields 5%!!!

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has just joined the dividend hike brigade. We have previously written that this would likely be the case and the hike was right in line with the upper-end…

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Jon C. Ogg

7:49am ET

Military

EADS/BAE Merger: Waves of Consolidation, Antitrust and Problems for Global Aerospace and Defense

This proposed merger between EADS and BAE is going to be more than complicated. Frankly, we also wonder about the legality of such a merger and wonder how other defense and aerospace firms…

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11:12am ET

Investing

An EADS/BAE Merger or Combination? Is It Even Possible? (Updated)

Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) and other aerospace and defense contractors like Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) and General Dynamics Corp. (NYSE: GD) could have some even larger competition to fend off. We…

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5:51pm ET

Military

U.S. Arms Sales Top $66 Billion in 2011

In a new report from the Congressional Research Service, written by Richard F. Grimmett and Paul K. Kerr, the agency said that U.S. arms exports reached $66.3 billion, according to an account in The…

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4:09pm ET

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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — July 25, 2012: Markets Mixed on Spotty Earnings Reports

The three major US stock indexes opened mixed this morning with the Nasdaq Composite slightly negative on an unexpectedly weak earnings report from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) (more coverage here). A weak…

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Paul Ausick

4:05pm ET

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24/7 Wall St. Closing Bell — July 24, 2012: Markets Fall on Weak Quarterly Results

The three major US stock indexes opened roughly flat this morning as Spanish 10-year bond yields rose to 7.5% and Moody’s cut Germany’s outlook to ‘negative’ after the markets closed last night…

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Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs Could Be Lost in Defense Industry (LMT, BA, NOC, GD, RTN, BAESY)

More than $50 billion in defense spending is set to be chopped from the federal budget at the end of this year as part of the compromise deal reached last August that…

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Paul Ausick

12:04pm ET

Banking, finance, and taxes

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 he still…

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