Companies know that to attract regular income-seeking investors, it helps to pay out high dividends.
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July 1 - News
Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) stock has become dependent on its diabetes drug Januvia over the past couple of years for revenue growth.
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July 1 - News
An entity with deep pockets is looking to buy boatloads of Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) stock. And we're talking yacht-sized boatloads -- not canoe-sized ones.
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July 1 - News
If you owned Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) stock at the beginning of 2013, you're sitting atop gains of more than 20% right now.
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June 28 - News
Enterprise value is a measure of a company's value.
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June 28 - News
On June 24, the Food and Drug Administration issued “bioequivalence recommendations” for 15 active ingredients used in prescription medications.
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June 28 - News
After a series of failures, one is forced to wonder whether the medical fraternity, including the research and development wing of Eli Lilly & Co.
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June 27 - News
After the failure of its pipeline products for Alzheimer’s and rheumatoid arthritis, the drug giant Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE:LLY) finally has some good news to report.
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June 27 - News
Investing in biotech companies can be risky; developing new drugs is a long, expensive, and uncertain process, and there is always considerable regulatory risk in the industry...
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June 26 - News
Stocks have taken a beating over the past two weeks, but Wall Street's getting a welcome moment of respite today.
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June 25 - News
A director at Deloitte Services LP and co-author of The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think, Michael Raynor joins The Fool to share his findings about what makes a company...
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June 25 - News
Blame it on a "case of the Mondays" or perhaps a rough night out on the town, but for many of us getting a good night's rest isn't nearly as simple as it sounds.
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June 25 - News
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) was in 81 hedge funds' portfolio at the end of the first quarter of 2013. PFE shareholders have witnessed an increase in hedge fund interest recently.
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June 24 - News
One of the reasons investors regard the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (INDEXDJX:.DJI) as blue-chip giants is that all 30 of them pay dividends.
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June 24 - News
Mark your calendars Amarin Corporation plc (ADR) (NASDAQ:AMRN) investors.
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June 20 - News
A new Supreme Court ruling presents pharmaceutical companies with a tough choice -- stop paying generic-drug producers to withhold generic options from the market, or risk getting...
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June 20 - News
A director at Deloitte Services LP and coauthor of The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think, Michael Raynor joins the Fool to share his findings about what makes a company...
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June 20 - News
It started running in 1980, when a series of interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve finally broke the back of inflation, and it galloped onward for more than three decades...
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June 19 - Stock Analysis
The best thing about the stock market is that you can make money in either direction. Historically, stock indexes have tended to trend up over the long term.
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June 19 - News
A spate of 10 biotechs went public this year, raising over $725 million.
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June 19 - News
Investors can never predict whether the market will rise or fall on any given day, but lately, a pretty good bet has been to expect some substantial volatility in one direction...
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June 19 - News
Wall Street is in a good mood again a day before the conclusion of the Federal Reserve's policy meeting.
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June 18 - News
London-based pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca plc (ADR) (NYSE:AZN) recently announced that it had agreed to purchase U.S.-based lung-drug manufacturer Pearl Therapeutics for at...
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June 18 - News
About a third of American adults have high LDL cholesterol -- that's the bad kind -- but less than half of adults with high LDL seek treatment, according to the Centers for Disease...
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June 18 - News
Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) seems to think its stock is cheap enough to justify sinking a substantial amount of its nest egg into the company's stock.
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June 18 - News
The S&P 500 fell nearly 10% in June 2008, and investors began to brace for an eventual market crash later in the year.
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June 17 - Stock Analysis
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made a groundbreaking policy change last year that is having a large impact on the biotech industry and creating a big opportunity for...
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June 17 - Stock Analysis
A new drug in the fight against cancer is certainly an exciting and welcome development.
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June 17 - News
The latest drug to bite the dust is LY2886721, a beta secretase, or BACE, inhibitor.
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June 17 - News
Investing in biotech stocks is relatively risky amid the volatility of the market. There are many factors that can greatly affect share trends and price performance.
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June 13 - News
Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ:CELG) shares have soared more than 46% so far in 2013.
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June 12 - News
Nearly every big pharma player has been hit with patent expirations that have hit hard on sales lately, and Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) is no exception. Merck & Co., Inc.
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June 12 - News
Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK) has been trying to generate more value for its shareholders via its share buyback program.
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June 12 - News
After the announcement from the Bank of Japan that it will hold firm with its economic stimulus, the U.S. markets headed south.
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June 12 - News
Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., Inc.
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June 11 - News
Move over, Superman: There's a more unstoppable force that can leap even the highest expectations, and its name is the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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June 10 - News
Does Medicare have one foot in the grave already? The Trustees of the Medicare program recently announced that the program will remain solvent through 2026.
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June 10 - News
Every week at The Motley Fool we reflect on the top stories in the biotech sector in a wrap-up column.
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June 10 - News
A 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine is certainly impressive. Using a novel cancer treatment on yourself is both impressive and courageous. Dr.
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June 10 - News
GlaxoSmithKline plc (ADR) (NYSE:GSK)'s diabetes drug Avandia causes heart issues. Or maybe it doesn't.
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June 10 - News
Is AstraZeneca plc (ADR) (NYSE:AZN) a healthy stock for your portfolio? Investors who are in the know are getting more bullish.
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June 10 - News
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) has been doing some interesting things lately.
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June 7 - News
I follow quite a lot of companies, so the usefulness of a watchlist to me cannot be overstated.
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June 5 - News
This chart is just unbelievable.
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June 5 - News
What started out as a ho-hum day is turning into a rout.
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June 4 - News
Down go the markets on renewed fears over an end to quantitative easing.
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June 4 - News
Throughout the past four years, the bull market has repeatedly withstood challenges to its endurance, often coming back from substantial morning losses to finish higher on the...
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June 4 - News
Investors received a little good news and a little better-than-expected news today.
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June 4 - News
