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Investing
The Ultimate Large Cap Portfolio to Buy and Hold Forever
A new report from the Portfolio Strategy team at Oppenheimer makes the case that large cap names are the only place to be now and going forward.
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Investing
Short Sellers Get Selective in High-Yield Defensive Dividend Stocks
ThinkstockThe short interest data for the final two weeks of May have been released, and the results are somewhat surprising when it comes to the top high-yield safe dividends we follow. Some…
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Military
Why a Boeing 777 Sells for $320 Million
The Boeing Co.One of Wednesday’s major business stories is the cancellation of an order from Emirates Airline for 70 A350 aircraft from Airbus, a move that will cost the European airplane maker…
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Investing
The 4 Stocks That Buttressed the Market
thinkstockJune 9, 2014: Markets opened mixed on Monday before turning positive shortly after the opening. The S&P 500 and the DJIA dipped briefly into the red on some profit-taking in the mid-afternoon,…
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Military
Why a Boeing 737 Costs up to $110 Million
The FAA last Friday ordered Boeing to modify the technology included on its current models of the 737 single-aisle, narrow-body passenger jet that has been the company's bread-and-butter product since going into…
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Military
Boeing Faces Competition From China
Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China (Comac)Chinese airlines are expected to purchase about 5,000 new planes in the next 20 years, and the country wants to keep some of the estimated $560 billion…
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Military
Why a Boeing 747-8 Costs $357 Million
The first 747-100 from Boeing was put into service in 1970, and those first planes sold at a list price of $24 million. Adjusting for inflation, that same 747 would sell today…
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Economy
Fortune 500 Companies Reach All-Time Sales Record
courtesy of Wal-Mart Stores Inc.The 500 largest corporations in the United States posted profits of more than $1 trillion last year, the first time ever to reach that level and, of course,…
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Military
Boeing 737 Challenger Fails
Canada-based aircraft maker Bombardier Inc. suffered a significant setback on Thursday to its plans to build a commercial plane to compete with the 737 from Boeing and the A320 from Airbus Group.
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Investing
Merrill Lynch Inexpensive Large Cap Cyclical Growth Stocks to Buy
ThinkstockWhile some say valuations are stretched, and the bull market is tired, the bottom line is the market has basically gone sideways for almost a half a year. In a new research…
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Investing
Dividend Shock: Over Half of DJIA Blue Chips Outyield 10-Year Treasury
Several things are taking place ahead of the end of May, and the number of pundits getting more worried about the markets seems to be on the rise. The problem is that…
8:40am ET
Industrials
France Continues Battle Against GE Bid for Alstom
Wikimedia CommonsGeneral Electric Co.’s (NYSE: GE) $16.9 billion bid for the power division of France’s Alstom has not gone down well with the government of French President François Hollande. The government is…
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Banking, finance, and taxes
Is Warren Buffett Done Buying Banks and Financial Stocks?
ThinkstockFor a bull market to stay alive, you have to have participation from the financial sector. Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has been a financial stock buyer for many…
5:05pm ET
Investing
Big Portfolio Changes for Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway
courtesy of WhiteHouse.govBerkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) has released its holdings as of the end of the first quarter of 2014. We were originally not expecting many major changes to the portfolio.…
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Industrials
Why GE May Be King of the Conglomerates in 2014 — and 2015
Wikimedia CommonsAs the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 have both hit new all-time highs, earnings season is winding down. Now investors have to be wondering what will be the driving force…