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Comparing The Reynolds & Lorillard Merger With Comcast & Time Warner
Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 1:48pm | 665Read More...Reynolds American (NYSE: REI) has agreed to buy rival Lorillard (NYSE: LO) for $27.4 billion. Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) has proposed spending $45 billion to acquire Time Warner Cable (NYSE: TWC). Shareholders and regulators on both cases would have to approve the mergers, and in...
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Markets Mixed, NASDAQ Lower As Yellen Suggests Valuations Are Stretched
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - 4:35pm | 2480Read More...U.S. stocks were mixed with the NASDAQ index declining after the Fed's Chief Janet Yellen suggested that some sectors are characterized by "stretched" valuations. In prepared remarks to the Senate Banking Committee, Yellen also claimed that interest rates could rise sooner and at...
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Stocks Rebound From 2 Day Drop As The Fed Confirms The End Of QE Is Near
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 - 4:40pm | 2399Read More...U.S. stocks rose following the FOMC minutes which stated that the Fed is on track for a final month of tapering in October. The Fed plans to slash $15 billion from its monthly asset purchasing program at that time. “Some committee members had been asked by members of the public whether...
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Market Wrap For May 23: Markets Marginally Higher; S&P 500 Closes Above 1,900
Friday, May 23, 2014 - 4:39pm | 1787Read More...U.S. stocks were little moved with the news-flow light, as would be expected prior to a long-weekend. In fact, Thursday's trading session proved to be the second lowest volume day of 2014. The S&P 500 closed above 1,900 and came within striking distance of matching its intraday all time...
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Market Wrap For May 22: Markets Barely Positive
Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 4:35pm | 2710Read More...U.S. stocks picked up right where they left off following Wednesday's rally. Investors were given a mixed bag of economic data covering U.S. manufacturing, initial purchasing managers' index in China, existing home sales, Fed activity among others. Investors are likely focusing more on...
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Earnings Expectations For The Week Of February 10: AIG, Cisco, Deere, PepsiCo And More
Monday, February 10, 2014 - 7:33am | 990Read More...The 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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Four Large Cap Buyout Candidates with Healthy Dividends (CA, GRMN, LO, NOC)
Saturday, March 23, 2013 - 11:17am | 838Read More...In a report this past week, analysts at the Merrill Lynch unit of Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) offered list of potential large cap leveraged buyout candidates. All the companies that made their list have healthy cash flow, smart valuations and low corporate debt. Here is a quick look at four of...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of July 23
Monday, July 23, 2012 - 7:07am | 1226Read More...The earnings crunch rolls on. Analysts are looking for strong earnings growth in this week's quarterly reports from Apple, Caterpillar, Starbucks and Visa. But ConocoPhillips, Ford and Netflix are among those expected to post significantly lower per-share earnings, compared to the same period of a...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of February 6
Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 6:39pm | 1330Read More...There will be plenty more quarterly reports this week for analysts and traders to peruse. On the schedule are Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS), PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP), Time Warner (NYSE: TWX), Visa (NYSE: V), Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS), Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFM) and Yum! Brands (NYSE:...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of October 24
Sunday, October 23, 2011 - 1:40pm | 1417Read More...The earnings crunch is in full swing this this week. Quarterly results are due from the likes of Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) and United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS), from which analysts expect to see year-over-year earnings growth, as well as...
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Nine Dividend Payers Up More Than 20% in Six Months
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 9:31am | 934Read More...So maybe you got out of the market when things got crazy, and you are looking to put a toe back in the water now that stocks have largely rebounded. Or perhaps you have been riding out the volatility but thinking you ought to diversify a little more. Well, here is a quick look at some options. They...
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Bank of America Provides Color on Tobacco Industry
Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 8:34am | 471Read More...Bank of America provided color on the tobacco industry. In a research report published today, Bank of America commented on the Master Settlement Agreement payments. In the report, Bank of America states, "According to the Wall Street Journal, major cigarette manufacturers, including Altria,...
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Six Tobacco Stocks Near 52-Week Highs
Thursday, June 2, 2011 - 3:37pm | 793Read More...Investors looking for a defensive play, and who don't have an issue with so-called sin stocks, might be considering tobacco stocks about now. By and large, tobacco stocks continue to perform strongly, despite years of lawsuits, taxation and general disdain from the public. And some of them have the...
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Deutsche Bank: Have MO and RAI Reached Their Full Value?
Thursday, September 30, 2010 - 8:59am | 117Read More...Deutsche Bank has downgraded Altria Group (NYSE: MO) and Reynolds American (NYSE: RAI) to Hold due to limited upside potential from current price targets. In its tobacco industry research report, Deutsche Bank writes "Share price outperformance rightly owes to favorable domestic fundamentals -...
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Deutsche Bank's Industry Insights Report
Friday, September 17, 2010 - 7:49am | 323Read More...The channel migration industry is facing high unemployment and cautious consumers, and industry spending has been aggressive to drive volume growth at the expense of category growth and profits, Deutsche Bank reports. Mass and super-centers are losing market share in the US and consumers are being...
