Foreign Fund ‘Not Satisfied’ After Kyushu Railway Refuses Proposals (Asia.Nikkei.com) TOKYO — New York-based hedge fund Fir Tree Partners......
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Introduction The threat of rising interest rates is all the rage in financial circles today. However, the seminal question is: How real is the threat,......
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On the day after another Fed rate hike, the markets are relatively quiet as all three major indexes are close to flat. The Dow is down just 5 points,......
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What have the 10 most ethical companies in the US done to earn the title? Who gets to decide that these companies are ethical or not? Ethics is a system......
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Every week, I review the list of dividend increases as part of my monitoring process. I usually focus my attention on companies that have managed to......
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This guest post has been written by Mike McNeil, passionate investor, founder of Dividend Stocks Rock and author of The Dividend Guy Blog. In the beginning......
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This is a guest post by Mike, aka The Dividend Guy. He authors The Dividend Guy Blog since 2010 and manages portfolios at Dividend Stocks Rock. He is......
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There is a common misconception that older companies can’t or won’t innovate and that innovation only occurs in an industry when a new company enters......
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Dividend investing is part art, part science. Financial ratios make up most of the science behind investing. What exactly are financial ratios? For the......
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There’s been a slew of earnings reports come in over the past 24 hours, with Procter & Gamble Co (NYSE:PG), 3M Co (NYSE:MMM), E I Du Pont De......
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What happens when you push a small snowball down a hill… And what does this have to do with growing wealthy? When you push a small snowball down a......
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3M Co (NYSE:MMM) has paid dividends for 99 years without interruption. The company has paid increasing dividends for 57 consecutive years. The company......
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While investors await the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise rates, shares of QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM), VeriFone Systems Inc (NYSE:PAY), Apple......
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The handful of hedge fund billionaires have not become billionaires out of thin air; their talent, expertise and experience at picking stocks are the......
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Among the best dividend stocks that money can buy, dividend kings represent an elite group of companies that have been consistently paying out dividends......
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Three notable stocks were given recommendations by analysts this morning, and we’ll run through each of them and discuss the latest analyst action on......
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As of the close of trading on March 4, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had gained 1.54% year-to-date. Although all of the companies listed in this stock......
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3M Co (NYSE:MMM), formerly known as Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, was presented as the money making giant on CNBC. Mad Money host, Jim Cramer......
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Author and CNBC analyst Jim Cramer offered his first selections of the season for his annual fantasy stock portfolio team yesterday on Mad Money. The......
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Founded in 1878 by none other than Thomas A. Edison, General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) is still going strong. GE stock has gained over 21% year-to......
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Introduction Of all of the many sound investing principles that legendary teacher and investor Ben Graham put forward, he believed that his concept of......
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Although we don’t believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes — just in case......
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3M Co (NYSE:MMM) is known for a lot of products people use every day: the Post-It Note, Scotch Tape, and Scotchgard, just to name a few. But they aren......
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CLARCOR Inc. (NYSE:CLC) will release its quarterly report on Wednesday, and the filtration specialist has seen extremely strong share-price performance......
(read more)September 17 - Earnings Report, News - Comments
Boring, for lack of a better word, is good. Sometimes, it pays to ignore the talking heads in the financial media and the obsessive hype lavished on speculative......
(read more)September 13 - News - Comments
When is the last time you heard an unequivocally good jobs report? Unfortunately, most of us are probably still scratching our heads trying to remember......
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So, you want to invest money but don’t have hours on end to research stocks? Consider combining two investing strategies that have long created......
(read more)September 11 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
Back in 1999, the media wildly speculated that Y2K — a computer bug caused by data only being dated with the last two digits of the year —......
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Brady Corp (NYSE:BRC) will release its quarterly report on Thursday, and the stock has gone on a roller-coaster ride so far in 2013 as investors try......
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On this day in economic and business history … Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise… which began on......
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The stocks that have richly rewarded their shareholders for several decades have some qualities in common. In particular, they offer products and services......
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Photo: WikiCommons License. Investment ideas are all around us, not just in the news or the results from a screener. For example, let’s assume companies......
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3M Co (NYSE:MMM) might be worth taking out of your portfolio; here’s why. If you were to ask many of your fellow readers, hedge funds are perceived......
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI) is only a couple of days removed from setting fresh all-time highs. The market’s most......
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Dividend investors would be wise to focus not just on a stock’s current yield but also on the long-term growth potential of its dividends. That&#......
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Glass isn’t a sexy business, but Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) is making it just that. While the decline in TV demand has lead to some concerns......
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The financial media aren’t usually very good at putting the stock market in long-term context. We quote the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Jones......
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Historically, 3M Co (NYSE:MMM) has invented some of the globe’s best products. Its innovative culture, bottom-line focus, and low-cost manufacturing......
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America’s biggest industrials will probably never receive much attention from the financial media. Whereas today’s market headlines are reserved for......
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Ever since Warren Buffett made his conversion to owning great businesses, he has stressed that his favorite holding period is forever. Great businesses......
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Diversification is an important characteristic of every portfolio. With diversity comes stability. The more diversified you are, the more gains and losses......
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Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown. The best stocks offer sustainable......
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Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) just released its second-quarter earnings last week and its sales figures were promising, but there are other companies to......
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This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on. Today, we’......
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Editor’s Note: Related tickers: Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), 3M Co (NYSE:MMM), Netflix, Inc......
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Editor’s Note: Related tickers: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ......
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Since the depth of the financial crisis, General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) has made a comeback for the ages. GE stock has rallied over 250% since March......
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3M Co (NYSE:MMM) is scheduled to release its quarterly earnings report tomorrow, and shareholders have sent the stock on an impressive run so far this......
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Dividend stocks outperform non-dividend-paying stocks over the long run. It happens in good markets and bad, and the benefit of dividends can be quite......
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