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Stone Fox Capital submits:For transporters, the cost of gas will be a 'driving' force in future profits and the ability to transport more commodities and less retail products will be beneficial. For that fact, we have decided (Read More)
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Today is the last day of the first half of 2009, and today’s closes will set new monthly, quarterly and semiannual levels from my proprietary analytics. That’s tomorrow’s conversation. Today I look at the monthly charts for t (Read More)
L.A. Times - Personal Finance:
Iraq's public auction fails to yield contracts for seven other oil and gas fields. The outcome suggests foreign oil firms aren't as eager to invest in Iraq as the government hoped. (Read More)
LA Times:
Investigators hope prescriptions in other people's names and medical equipment yield clues to the pop star's death. Authorities investigat (Read More)
The Daily Reckoning:
Let the Data flow begin! And let Big Ben Bernanke’s “green shoots” wilt under the bright summer sun! Not that I want to see the US in economic muck, but come on! He was banging the drum for these “green shoots” when they simp (Read More)
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Zacks.com submits: By Steven RalstonKimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB) (Analyst Report) announced plans to reduce its salaried workforce by approximately 1,600 positions (or 3%) by the end of 2009, which management believes wil (Read More)
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JapanHardware• Suning Appliance will pay 800 million yen (US$8.4million) for 27.36 percent of Laox, making it the loss-making Japanese electronics retailer's biggest shareholder. Suning will pay 12 yen for each of 66. (Read More)
SmartMoney.com - Stock Screen:
Dividends are in the dumps. For 11 years ended 2007, the S&P 500 carried a yield of less than 2% compared with a historic average for stocks of closer to 5%. Share prices have plunged since 2007, so the index’s yield should h (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Dividends are in the dumps. For 11 years ended 2007, the S&P 500 carried a yield of less than 2% compared with a historic average for stocks of closer to 5%. Share prices have plunged since 2007, so the index’s yield should h (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
CONFIDENCE IN THE WENDY'S/ARBY'S GROUP has been shrinking like an overcooked hamburger on a sizzling grill. Declining sales at Arby's, plus the company's reluctance to specify how it will use most of the proceeds from a recen (Read More)
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Sallie Mae Secures Contract -- and an UpgradeGovernment-backed student loan provider Sallie Mae (SLM) received a passing grade from investors, who sent the shares 10% higher in early Monday trading, following a key analyst up (Read More)
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Sallie Mae Secures Contract -- and an UpgradeGovernment-backed student loan provider Sallie Mae (SLM) received a passing grade from investors, who sent the shares 10% higher in early Monday trading, following a key analyst up (Read More)
The Guardian:
How the respected Wall Street financier who seemed to have the Midas touch became a 'nobody' languishing behind barsThe master fraudster may be behind bars. But victims of Bernard Madoff's $65bn (£39.5bn) Ponzi scheme are bec (Read More)
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Dobromir Stoyanov submits:While some investors viewed Petsmart’s 233% dividend raise as extremely important, I found the increases from several high yield stocks to be very intriguing as well. First of all, as a dividend grow (Read More)
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David Hunkar submits: The S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats is part of the S&P Dividend Aristocrats index series. This constituents in this index have followed a policy of raising dividends each year for at least 25 consecu (Read More)
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David Van Knapp submits:Summary: Realty Income (O) is a superior company for a dividend strategy, whether the sub-strategy is current income or accumulating wealth through dividend growth. The company has paid monthly divide (Read More)
Contrarian Stock Market Investing News - Featuring Bargain Stocks:
All this week, we’ve been sounding the alarm of the so-called economic “green shoots.” These have now been exposed as being pure propaganda designed to lure investors back into stocks and to allow banks to recapitalize throug (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
GE opens a $100 million R&D center near Detroit, plans to hire 1,200 [WSJ]How companies deal with Twitter imposters [WSJ]Jimmy Wales kept news of a kidnapped NYT journo off Wikipedia [NYT]Google really wants you to believe it (Read More)
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Joe Eqcome submits:The 13 closed end fund ((CEF)) types on average were up 0.2% for the week ending 6/26/09. The S&P 500, as measured by the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), registered a decline of 0.2%. On an aggregate, unweighted ba (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Japan's benchmark government-bond yield rose Friday as traders and investors positioned themselves for Thursday's auction of 10-year debt.
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