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Are Oracle’s Earnings a Fluke?
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) earnings missed almost all Wall St. estimates and its shares fell 8%. The company has been among the most successful in the tech sector for years. Was the report…
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Even More DJIA Dividend Hikes Coming Soon (BA, GE, DIS, T, PFE, CSCO, KO, XOM, IBM, JNJ, JPM, MMM, WMT, DVY, VIG, PFM, HDV)
Throughout December we have been giving updates on dividends that will rise in the coming days and weeks from the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks. Many have already come true and…
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Banking, finance, and taxes
Media Digest (12/15/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT
Olympus may hire its former CEO, Michael Woodford, in the midst of an accounting scandal. (Reuters) Foreign investment in China drops for the first time in 28 months. (Reuters) Holiday sales continue…
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Investing
Best Ideas For 2012: Mostly Dividends & Value (BRK-A, CMCSA, FCX, MET, PG, STX, RDS.A, VOD, SNY, AAPL, GOOG, IBM)
This last weekend brought the first waves of picks for 2012. Barron’s issued its “10 Favorite Stocks For 2012” and the stocks were just about all lower on Monday with a very…
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Media
Media Digest (12/12/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg
Worries about the EU solution to the sovereign debt crisis rise. (Reuters) U.S. firms will be asked to disclose relationships with Syria and Iran. (FT) Many jobless Americans face cut off of benefits at…
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Investing
IBM Snaps Up Cloud Company (IBM, DMAN)
IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has agreed to acquire cloud analytics company DemandTec, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMAN) for $13.20/share, or a total of about $440 million after cash adjustments. DemandTec shares closed at $8.43…
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Special Report
The Biggest Corporate Layoffs of All Time
Eleven American companies have laid off a total of nearly 600,000 people in the past two decades. Each also fired a large number of employees at one time to earn it a…
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Investing
SAP Moves To Cloud With SuccessFactor
SAP (NYSE: SAP) will buy cloud computing company SuccessFactor (NYSE: SFSF) for $3.4 billion. It is a move that will get the Germany company into a business dominated by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Google…
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Investing
More DJIA Stocks Set to Hike Dividends Very Soon (DIS, DIA, T, VZ, CSCO, KO, IBM, JNJ, JPM, MMM, PFE, MRK, WMT, DVY, VIG, PFM, HDV)
Dividends are still rising and equity and income investors should expect more of the same for 2012. The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) joined in on the dividend hike brigade with another dividend…
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Investing
HP Chief Wants To Sharply Increase Software Revenue
Meg Whitman, the new CEO of Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), wants to rely on new software revenue to reverse the firm’s fortunes, according to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The paper reports that Whitman said…
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Consumer Electronics
Full 360-Degree H-P Earnings Preview (HPQ, DELL, CSCO, AAPL, IBM)
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) is set to report earnings after the close. As this is the first report with Meg Whitman on as CEO and with the shenanigans that took place around…
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Investing
Upside Potential for Big Technology Stocks (AAPL, GOOG, INTC, MSFT, ORCL, IBM, HPQ, DELL)
Among the hundreds of technology stocks, there are a relative handful of companies that stand out as bellwethers for the entire industry. Some are on the list for historical reasons; others are…
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Investing
All 30 DJIA Dividend Trends into 2012, Stock by Stock (DIA, AA, AXP, T, BAC, BA, CAT, CVX, CSCO, KO, DD, XOM, GE, HD, HPQ, IBM, INTC, JNJ, JPM, KFT, MCD, MMM, MRK, MSFT, PFE, PG, TRV, UTX, VZ, WMT, DIS)
The economic choppiness is coming to a head with the age of dividend hikes. The pressure is going to remain for companies to continue returning capital to shareholders while also looking for…
6:46am ET
Investing
What’s Important in the Financial World (11/15/2011) Buffett Holdings, Un-Occupy Wall St.
Germany’s mixed bag. Two key economic figures out of Germany offset one another. GDP grew 0.5% in the third quarter. The number was up 2.6% from the same quarter last year. The advance…
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Media
Media Digest (11/15/2011) Reuters, WSJ, FT, Bloomberg
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments about the Obama health care law. (Reuters) Angela Merkel says Europe may face its greatest crisis since World War II. (Reuters) Italy’s Monti will discuss…