By David Klein:
Frontier (FTR) announced a reduction in its yearly dividend from $0.75 to $0.40 in February. The 47% dividend cut provides an additional $348 million a year. The dividend cut, while painful to many, was necessary….
By Ploutos:
If you are worried that you missed the rally in Sears Holdings (SHLD), Bank of America (BAC), Netflix (<a href="http://seekingalpha.com/s…
By Jad Sabalbal:
The purpose of this article is to analyze Microsoft’s (MSFT) share price in relation to its intrin…
The debate about the causes of the financial crisis and the great recession will continue for many years, and the facts and analysis that Robert Hetzel put forth in his new book The Great Recession: Market Failure or Policy Failure? should now be part of that debate. As I said in my comments for Cambridge University Press, “Hetzel applies his …
By Robert Broens:
This week, I will run you through the most important buyback announcements for the week of 25 March till 30 March.
While consumers and governments across the world are strapped for cash, corporations have plenty. Rather than signal long-term tru…
By David Van Knapp:
I am researching an article on dividend growth stocks. I want to use a sample of the 30-40 most common stocks held by dividend growth investors. Please help.
Below I have listed 35 stocks that, from my reading, appear in a lot of dividend growth portfolios. This…
By Cliff Wachtel:
Part 2: Coming Week Market Movers
(See Part 1 for prior week market movers)
Early in the week we may see some delayed reaction to the m…
By Cliff Wachtel:
Part 1 of Weekly Review/Preview: Prior Week Market Movers & Their Lessons For the Coming Week
Markets opened the week closing higher due to Fed Chairman Bernanke’s downbeat assessment of the US economy. It was a case of bad news i…
Dan Loeb at the Columbia Student Investment Conference 2012:
Think deeply about process over outcome. If you do something the right way enough times, you’ll win.
HT: Market Folly
Top billionaire Mexican drug lord (ranks #701 on Forbes list of the world’s richest people) “bitch slaps five American presidents” by saying “I couldn’t have gotten so stinking rich without George Bush, George Bush, Jr., Ronald Regan and even El Presidente Obama, none of them have the cojones to stand up to all of the big money that wants to keep thi…
Appropriate photo on the day of “Earth Hour.”
The famous economist also was one of the greatest investors of the past century. Here’s how he did it.
1. Toyconomy2. Toygaroo3. BabyPlays4. Rent That Toy
By Stock Croc:
Sirius XM’s (SIRI) largest stockholder, Liberty Media (LMCA), appears to be laying the groundwork for a hostile takeover of the satellite radio comp…
Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com
Economic, regulatory, and entitlement reforms are tough. While they’re supposed to open opportunities, put budgets on sounder footing, or make the economy more competitive, they invariably cut into the flesh of some groups, who then react with demonstrations and strikes to draw attention to their…
By Avi Gilburt:
Those of us who have entered the gold and silver market at our bottom call at the end of 2011, and then exited their short term positions at our <a href="http://seek…
By Steven Hansen:
This week Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke critiqued the labor situation in the USA, and concluded:
…..conditions remain far from normal, as shown, for example, by the high level of long-term unemployment and the fact that jobs and hours wor…
Herr VAMPIRE SQUID revisited and affirmed-
Germany is in it for Germany, not for united Europe. When you look at Europe and see that Germay is a success and no one else is, there is a reason for that.
Germany, after ‘trapping’ many countries in the e-Zone ignored their situation while Germany continues to post increasingly lower-than-required rates …
General Electric (GE) is a conglomerate with operations in diverse fields such as aviation, finance, power systems and health care. The thesis of this article is an options play to take…
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