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Barron's: Lovely Homes At Higher Prices
Sunday, March 27, 2016 - 9:01pm | 663The cover story in this weekend's Barron's features the best luxury second home resort markets in the United States. The communities that topped the list this year include ones in Texas, Wisconsin and Utah. Other featured articles include a look at how to buy Bill Ackman and Dan...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Interpublic, Zimmer Biomet And More
Sunday, March 27, 2016 - 8:47pm | 614Featured stories this weekend in Barron's ponder the prospects for a global advertising company and a medical device company. Barron's offers two stocks that it thinks are worth a wager now, one of which is backed by Sam Zell. Other featured articles include a way to invest with Bill Ackman and...
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Interpublic Announces 25% Dividend Hike, New $300 Million Share Repurchase Program
Friday, February 12, 2016 - 9:35am | 191Interpublic Group of Companies Inc (NYSE: IPG) announced Friday that its Board of Directors authorized a hike to the stock's quarterly dividend as well as a new share repurchase program. Interpublic's stock will now pay a quarterly dividend of $0.15 per share, marking a 25 percent...
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Markets Steady Despite Mixed Economic Data
Thursday, July 24, 2014 - 4:42pm | 2792U.S. stocks were little changed as economic data came in mixed. The Commerce Department reported that new home sales fell in the month June, while initial jobless claims came in better than expected. Investors and traders cheered positive quarterly results from Facebook and Ford, while news...
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10 Reasons To Give Marissa Mayer A Break
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - 3:49pm | 402Okay, so Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer overslept and was two hours late for a meeting. An important meeting. Still, she is likely not the first CEO of a major corporation to oversleep and miss part of a meeting. She is however, Marissa Mayer, and...
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Barron's Recap: 2014 Midyear Roundtable
Saturday, June 14, 2014 - 5:16pm | 860This weekend in Barron's online: the 2014 Midyear Roundtable, why most investing professionals are below average, as well as the prospects for Goodyear, Franklin Resources, Tribune Company, Electronic Arts, Southwest Airlines, Big Lots and more. Cover Story "2014 Midyear Roundtable -- Picking Up...
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of February 10: AIG, Cisco, Deere, PepsiCo And More
Monday, February 10, 2014 - 7:33am | 990The earnings season is winding down. Most of the S&P 500 have reported fourth-quarter results, and the good news is that earnings beats have outnumbered earnings misses. Here is a quick rundown of what analysts expect from some of this week's most prominent quarterly reports. America Movil...
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Barron's Recap: Europe Will Bounce Back
Monday, July 22, 2013 - 7:27am | 990This weekend in Barron's online: the outlook for Europe, 15 cheap stocks in a pricey market, and the prospects for cyber security stocks, Interpublic Group, Global Cash Access Holdings and Hess. Cover Story "Europe's Economy Will Rebound" by Jonathan Buck. "Europe's economy has hit bottom, and...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of February 18
Monday, February 18, 2013 - 9:45am | 1010U.S. markets are closed on Monday for the Presidents' Day holiday, and many of the S&P 500 have already posted results for the most recent quarter. But PC makers Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) step into the earnings spotlight this week. Also, the world's largest retailer...
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Barclays, Telefonica and Other European Stocks Favored by Analysts
Thursday, August 23, 2012 - 7:23am | 820There is no question that economic conditions are rough in Europe, where a number of countries have fallen back into recession. American companies with exposure in Europe are seeing the effects on their bottom lines, but there are always silver linings. Judging by the consensus Strong Buy...
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Churchill Downs, Luxottica and Others Analysts Are Bullish On
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 6:55am | 968Here is a quick look some dividend payers in the services sector that have a consensus recommendation of analysts of Strong Buy. Cedar Fair (NYSE: FUN) is more than 39% higher in the past six months but has pulled back about 9% from recent a multiyear high. The amusement park operator,...
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Deutsche Bank Reaffirms Buy Rating on Interpublic Group
Friday, July 15, 2011 - 7:30am | 90“We believe marketing budgets are holding up well despite pockets of weakness geographically, meaning the pieces are still in place for margin restoration at The Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (NYSE: IPG), which we continue to favor as the most leveraged way to play a sustained recovery of...
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Deutsche Bank Reaffirms Buy Rating, $15 PT on Interpublic Group
Thursday, June 9, 2011 - 7:41am | 155Deutsche Bank is reaffirming its Buy rating and $15 PT on shares of Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG). “While we are increasing our buyback/dividend assumptions for 2011 only modestly ($311mn and $0.06/qtr, respectively), for 2012 we are now modeling $600mn (vs. $400mn previously) and $0.08/qtr (+33%...
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Despite Losing Microsoft Business, Wedbush Maintains Interpublich Group's Outperform Rating
Monday, March 21, 2011 - 9:07am | 317Wedbush Securities has published a research report on Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG) after showing "cushioned" estimates despite losing some Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) business. In the report, Wedbush writes "Per IPG's 2010-K, Microsoft was a top-10 account in revenue in 2010, when the top client (...
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Deutsche Bank Comments On IPG Anticipated Loss
Monday, March 21, 2011 - 7:19am | 159The trade press (Ad Age & WSJ) reported on Friday that Universal McCann has lost the U.S. & Canadian media account for Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) (up for review since January) to Publicis' Starcom MediaVest, although the agency retains the international duties in 35 countries outside of North...