Depending on their financial goals, investors’ asset allocation tactics vary widely. But companies offering high dividend payments while positioned...
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September 6 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE:SFD) will release its quarterly report on Friday, and the company remains at the center of attention because of controversy...
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September 5 - News - Comments
If you happen to be a huge market nerd who keeps close track of SEC filings, you probably know Markel Corporation (NYSE:MKL) recently released its...
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August 20 - News - Comments
Though heavy investor involvement in the single-family housing market has helped fuel a sort of housing boom, real estate investment trusts created on...
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August 12 - News - Comments
The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE:BX) is following a competitor’s cue and is planning to lend to smaller investment buyers in the single family home...
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July 25 - News - Comments
It’s always a good idea to pay attention to what the world’s largest private-equity firm is doing with its business. That’s because it&#...
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July 24 - News - Comments
The 2007 to 2009 recession helped usher in a new institutional real estate asset class. Do single family real estate investment trusts (REITs) have legs...
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July 8 - News - Comments
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool’s free investing community, alternative...
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June 27 - News - Comments
Editor’s Note: A previous version of this post stated that Leucadia had an interest in Fortescue Metals Group and Inmet Mining. This has been corrected...
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June 27 - News - Comments
Leucadia National Corp. (NYSE:LUK) has often been called a baby Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A). It does have many similarities to Berkshire and...
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June 25 - News - Comments
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to change International Homes to Invitation Homes. “…single-family homes are cheap now, too...
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June 25 - News - Comments
“…single-family homes are cheap now, too. If I had a way of buying a couple hundred thousand single-family homes, and had a way of managing them...
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June 21 - News - Comments
Upward momentum seems to be building for Brookfield Office Properties Inc (USA) (NYSE:BPO), which set a new 52-week high of $19.19 on May 14. In recent...
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June 20 - News - Comments
Rumors are a part of life for investors — nothing new there. For a company like Nokia Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:NOK), which is in the midst of a...
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June 20 - News - Comments
Beats Electronics LLC, Dr. Dre’s high-end headphones company, is looking to raise up to $650 millionin corporate loans. But for the most part, Beats...
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June 19 - News - Comments
Beats Electronics LLC, Dr. Dre’s high-end headphones company, is looking to raise up to $650 million in corporate loans. But for the most part,...
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June 19 - News - Comments
As the US economy slowly rebounds from the financial crisis, private equity companies are capitalizing on new opportunities. These companies are uniquely...
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June 19 - News - Comments
The mortgage meltdown was bad news for homeowners, banks, and the economy, but the boatloads of foreclosures cluttering the housing market sparked the...
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June 18 - News - Comments
The ongoing recovery of the housing market raised the concern that we are heading toward another bubble that could burst in the near future. In a recent...
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June 14 - News - Comments
Earning income from owning profit-producing assets sounds great. It is. Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT) should comprise a part of each person’s...
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June 10 - News - Comments
Since many seasoned market-watchers were skeptical about the plausibility of the original buyout proposal from the alliance between Silver Lake Capital...
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June 6 - News - Comments
The Motley Fool’s readers have spoken, and I have heeded your cries. After months of pointing out CEO gaffes and faux pas, I’ve decided to...
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May 29 - News - Comments
As I wrote before, I’m not entirely sold on a housing boom, what with college debt levels increasing and impoverishing what should be a new generation...
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May 15 - News - Comments
The global theme-park industry continues to grow. Global Industry Analysts expects the global theme-park industry to reach $31.8 billion by 2017. However...
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May 7 - News - Comments
The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE:BX) withdrew its bid for Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL). The reasons for the withdrawal were not immediately clear, but it&#...
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May 3 - News - Comments
The housing sector’s slow recovery appears to be gaining ground, and homebuilders like PulteGroup, Inc. (NYSE:PHM) The Ryland Group, Inc. (NYSE...
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April 29 - News - Comments
A couple of weeks ago, up-for-sale PC purveyor Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) offered Carl Icahn and Icahn Enterprises LP (NASDAQ:IEP) $25 million to play nice...
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April 23 - News - Comments
Earlier this year, I detailed the importance of the spark spread for utilities and power generators. Not unlike the crack spread for refiners in the Gulf...
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April 23 - News - Comments
Nailed it! In Friday’s IPO of SeaWorld Entertainment Inc (NYSE:SEAS), private-equity powerhouse and still-SeaWorld majority owner The Blackstone...
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April 21 - News - Comments
There was no shortage of bad news for troubled retailer J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP) last week. On Monday afternoon, the company parted ways with...
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April 16 - News - Comments
Like seeing a horse named Paste winning the Kentucky Derby, J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP) surprised everyone yesterday by winning one of the little...
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April 13 - News - Comments
Want a good way to make a bundle at your corporate job? Leave it and go work for the government. Then come back. That’s what Lanny Breuer did when...
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April 12 - News - Comments
It was generally a great quarter for U.S. indexes all the way around, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) and S&P 500 (INDEXSP:....
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April 1 - News - Comments
When Micheal Dell offered a take-private deal valuing Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) at $13.65, investors were rightfully furious. His bid significantly undervalued...
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March 31 - News - Comments
Have you heard the news? Single-family homes are the new investment of the day. Big players like private-equity king The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE...
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March 26 - News - Comments
Have you ever felt the urge to throw in your chips with the big boys, but aren’t quite affluent enough to invest with the well-heeled set? Well,...
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March 18 - News - Comments
There has been a growing chorus of industrywatchers and writers fretting that the current rebound in the housing market is little more than a bubble....
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March 1 - News - Comments
The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE:BX) is a massive asset management firm. It’s so large, in fact, that it has to make bold moves in order to keep...
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February 25 - Hedge Funds - Comments
The housing market has been somewhat fickle over the past year or two, sputtering and stalling until finally getting into gear over the past few months...
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February 5 - News - Comments
