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The following is an excerpt from Peter Kafka | November 22, 2011 | allthingsd.com
Netflix is raising $400 million it says it doesn’t need but would be nice to have. If only the company had thought about this back in the summer of 2010.
That’s when the streaming video company authorized a ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Suzanne McGee | December 22, 2011 | Thefiscaltimes.com |
Whatever the economy fails to deliver in the way of higher earnings per share in the fourth quarter, companies may be generating themselves simply by using some of the surplus cash on their balance sheets to ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from JACK HOUGH | February 2, 2013 | Barrons.com |
The easiest way to secure higher mutual fund returns is to keep fees low, because they come off the top. On a $1 million portfolio that earns 5% a year, a tiny 0.10% fee saps $16,000 ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from ANDREW BARY | December 10, 2012 | Barrons.com |
How come we feel so bad when we've got it so good? Even after a 12% gain in the S&P 500 index this year, uncertainty about the fiscal cliff, increased taxes, and still-high unemployment continue to ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from: Bob O'Brien | December 7, 2011 | OnlineBarrons.com
Renaissance Capital's Kathleen Shelton Smith talked about the market for coming new issues including Facebook.
Social media companies have commanded the headlines in the initial public offering market for 2011, a trend that's expected to continue in ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from ANDREW BARY | January 19, 2013 | Barrons.com |
Thanks to a second-half flourish, Barron's stock selections finished 2012 comfortably ahead of the market.
Shares of the 121 companies that were the subject of favorable articles during 2012 rose an average of 9%, more than double ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Moran Zhang | November 2, 2012 | IBtimes.com |
The peak weeks of this earnings season are now behind us, and the number of reports we get each week will drift lower.
However, there are still quite a few big-name companies left to report their third-quarter ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Gabriel Debenedetti | January 8, 2013 | Reuters.com |
(Reuters) - Stocks fell on Tuesday, retreating from last week's rally on the "fiscal cliff" deal in Washington, as companies started to report results for the fourth quarter.
After a 4.3 percent jump in the two sessions ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Laura Matthews | December 10, 2012 | IBtimes.com |
Talk of the United States losing its sole superpower status is nothing new, but a new intelligence report puts a date on when that might happen: It's just 18 years away.
Still, though the U.S. will lose ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Kate Gibson | February 24, 2012 | MarketWatch |
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks on Friday notched weekly gains that pushed the S&P 500 to its highest close since mid-2008 as economic reports mostly offset concern about rising oil costs.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Kate Gibson | March 5, 2012 | MarketWatch.com |
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stock indexes declined Monday after a gauge of the nation’s services sector climbed in February, but investors found reason for concern in some of its underlying factors.
The Institute for Supply Management’s ... Read More
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The following is an excerpt from Kate Gibson | January 25, 2012 | Marketwatch.com |
S&P 500 has closed up 12 out of 15 sessions so far this year
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks erased losses to turn higher Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it would keep interest rates near ... Read More
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