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Barron's Recap: The New Breed of Income Funds
Sunday, July 7, 2013 - 11:51am | 816Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: profiles of five multiple-asset mutual funds for diversifying sources of yield, a mid-year review of Barron's stock picks and the prospects for the Dell buyout and the new earnings season. Cover Story "The New Breed of Income Fund" by Reshma Kapadia. Investors...
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Wall Street Firms Offer Rare Approval of White House Patent Move (CSCO, JPM, RAX)
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 3:02pm | 545Read More...It doesn’t happen often, but for once Wall Street and the White House see eye to eye. Wall Street firms applauded the Obama administration’s move to reign in the flood of patent-related lawsuits The Wall Street Journal reported, Wednesday. Technology companies claim that the number of lawsuits...
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Barron's Recap: Cues from Cooperman
Sunday, May 19, 2013 - 11:19am | 861Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: a profile of a Wall Street titan, a tribute to a former Barron's editor and columnist, and the prospects for Ryder System, Tencent and ING U.S. Cover Story "Cues from Cooperman" by Lawrence C. Strauss. This article says that Leon Cooperman, chairman and CEO of...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of May 13
Sunday, May 12, 2013 - 2:29pm | 967Read More...It's time for the big retailers to step into the earnings spotlight once again. This week we will be hearing from Walmart, the king of retailers, which is expected to report some annual revenue and earnings growth. And then there is struggling J.C. Penney, from which analysts predict a deeper net...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of February 11
Sunday, February 10, 2013 - 6:48pm | 874Read More...Quarterly reports from General Motors (NYSE: GM) and Deere (NYSE: DE) will be among the highlights on the earnings front this week. The consensus forecast for the former calls for fourth-quarter earnings per share (EPS) to be more than 23 percent higher than a year ago to $0.51 per share. The...
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Moves in Smaller Tech Stocks (BV, BSFT, JIVE, SYKE)
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 - 8:27am | 721Read More...Some smaller tech companies saw unusual movement in their stocks on Tuesday. And not just in Bazaarvoice (NASDAQ: BV), Broadsoft (NASDAQ: BSFT), Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE) and Sykes Enterprises (NASDAQ: SYKE), which are discussed below. But also e-mail marketing company ExactTarget (NYSE: ET),...
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Barron's Recap: The 25 Best Dividend Funds
Sunday, November 4, 2012 - 3:09pm | 820Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: the top dividend funds, investing in Brazil, the prospects for Bank of New York Mellon, Radian Group and Callaway Golf, as well as the momentum favors Romney. Cover Story "Top Dividend Funds" by Steve Garmhausen. Over the past few years, the search for income and...
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Barron's: Whose Earnings Estimates Are Safe?
Monday, October 8, 2012 - 12:56pm | 797Read More...An article in this week's Barron's suggests that analysts will lower their 2013 earnings estimates in coming weeks. Earnings for the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index are projected to rise 13% next year, but there is little evidence to support such acceleration. For the recently ended third...
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Barron's Recap (10/6/12): Out of the Storm
Monday, October 8, 2012 - 6:33am | 865Read More...This past weekend in Barron's online: a profile of fund manager Neuberger Berman, the prospects for Viacom, Brink's and closed-end funds, and takeaways from last week's presidential debate. Cover Story "Fair Winds Ahead" by Michael Santoli. Asset manager Neuberger Berman was tied to Lehman...
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Barron's Recap (8/18/12): Pipeline to 6 Percent Payouts
Monday, August 20, 2012 - 11:23am | 859Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: investing in master limited partnerships, the Paul Ryan effect, and the prospects for Waste Management, Swatch, Prosafe and Investors Bancorp. Cover Story "High Energy Income" by Dimitra DeFotis. One single investment -- the master limited partnership (MLP) --...
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EMC-Lenovo Deal Troubles HP Investors
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 4:26pm | 539Read More...EMC Corp.(NYSE: EMC), the biggest maker of data storage devices, and Lenovo Group, the world's second-biggest personal-computer maker, announced a major partnership Wednesday intended to help boost sales of storage equipment and servers that run corporate networks. That could may be bad news for...
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Q1 U.S. GDP Remains Unchanged at 1.9%
Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 9:59am | 486Read More...New data released Thursday by the Commerce Department confirmed U.S. first-quarter gross domestic product at 1.9 percent year-over-year growth. This also confirmed economists' expectations of 1.9 percent GDP growth, and it was lower than the 3.0 percent rate seen in the fourth quarter of 2011....
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of May 7 (DIS, M, CSCO)
Sunday, May 6, 2012 - 8:44am | 1037Read More...The parade of earnings from major retailers begins this week with quarterly reports due from Kohl's (NYSE: KSS), Macy's (NYSE: M) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN). Analysts expect to see year-over-year revenue growth from all three, but lower per-share earnings from Kohl's. Many more retailers are...
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Nine Technology ETFs on a Roll (TYH, TQQQ, ROM)
Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 6:49am | 1073Read More...Shares of the following exchange traded funds focused on technology or the Nasdaq 100 are between 20% and 90% higher year to date and trading at or near their 52-week highs. Direxion Daily Technology Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: TYH) is up about 82% year to date, including more than 15% higher in the...
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Nine ETFs Trading Near 52-Week Highs
Sunday, March 4, 2012 - 2:11pm | 1133Read More...The following exchange traded funds ended the week in the neighborhood of their 52-week highs. The share price of each is more than 20% higher than at the beginning of the year as well. Barclays Long B Leveraged S&P 500 Total Return ETN (NYSE: BXUB) is more than 22% higher than at the...
