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For-profit colleges have had a tough couple of years. First, the colleges were forced to change admissions procedures in a way that has cost them enrollment. Then student loan default rates and job...
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Energy exploration & production firm Midstates Petroleum Co. (NYSE: MPO) today announced that it would pay $650 million in cash and stock for 109,000 acres net acres of producing, developed, and...
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The crackdown on financial aid to students at for-profit colleges has taken a toll on the revenues of these institutions over the past couple of years. But the restrictions on the way these schools...
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Yesterday’s story about Venezuela opening the bidding for its oil resources raised an interesting question. What are the chances that Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), with nearly $40 billion in...
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Shares of Big Lots, Inc. (NYSE: BIG) jumped more than $5/share just before closing yesterday on a report from Bloomberg that the company may sell itself to a buyout firm. If the report pans out,...
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Independent oil and gas producer Apache Corp. (NYSE: APA) has agreed to purchase the North Sea assets of a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) for $1.75 billion. The total number of barrels...
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Both the government and GM management are talking about an IPO at the end of 2010 that would allow the taxpayers to get the money that they put into the No.1 car company in America back. Ron Bloom,...
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First-quarter earnings plunged at Devon Energy Corp. (NYSE: DVN) compared with the same period a year ago. The good news is that expectations were even lower. Excluding items, Devon posted EPS of...
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Exploration and production companies have been loading up on natural gas assets in the US for the past several years, and now it looks like that might not have been the best thing they could have...
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Today’s research section is being hampered due to post-holiday absence and due to the Northeast blizzard having shut much of the Northeast down. These are some of this Monday’s key analyst...
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Earlier this month, while everyone’s attention was focused on the midterm elections, the US Department of Education published proposed new rules governing access to federal direct and federally...
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The world of boutique apparel and retailing apparel is a boom or bust business it seems. Many companies start out great but either missteps occur or the trends move away from the original focus of...
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We already noted how Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) has raised its average oil prices for the years ahead, but the firm has also raised its OIL SERVICES Sector ratings this morning to...
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The development of unconventional natural gas resources in the lower 48 states supported 1 million jobs in 2010, and that total will grow to 1.5 million by 2015 and to more than 2.4 million by 2035...
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VeriChip Corporation (CHIP-NASDAQ) has lowered its proposed IPO terms, so the cult following in this stock may be feeling like it is a Doomsday cult. This is the spin-off out of Applied Digital...
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