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Ignore The Analysts And 'Invest In What You Know'
Seeking Alpha
A supposed advantage that mega cap stocks like Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and Citigroup (NYSE: C) have over others is extensive analyst coverage. This is supposed to provide additional information, access to C-level executive interviews and ...
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3 Reasons Markets Were Up As Libya Conflict and Gold Took Center Stage
Wall St. Cheat Sheet
Libya, a member of OPEC, used to supply the world with 1.6 million barrels of oil per day before breaking out into civil war — nearly 2% of the global oil (NYSE:OIL) supply. 2) Euro bonds. Tempering this morning's gains was news of German Chancellor ...
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Moved Above Upper Keltner Channel - AGQ, BWX, CYB, DBS, EWV
Retirement Planning
The 52-week range of the stock is $56.49 – $63.86. At current market price, the market capitalization of the company stands at $1.57B and it has - outstanding shares.SPDR Barclays Capital International Treasury Bond ETF (the Fund), formerly SPDR Lehman ...
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SHARES OF GENESEE & WYOMING POTENTIALLY OVERVALUED IN TERMS OF FORWARD ...
Zacks.com
... the forward earnings yield is useful to compare a stock's return vs. owning a similar stock or other yield assets (eg bonds). Generally, the higher the earnings yield, the more undervalued the stock. Genesee & Wyoming (NYSE:GWR - Snapshot Report) ...
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Zacks' Voice of the People Highlights Opportunities with JPMorgan Chase ...
Sacramento Bee
Sure, many bond holders would lose money, however, the crisis would be solved. The problem is that the bond holders are the banks. In the United States the biggest and most important bank to follow is JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). ...
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Hot Option Plays: The Big “R”
Daily Markets
XLF was lower throughout most of the day and came under pressure late in the day after Goldman (NYSE:GS) shares sold off on news its Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein has hired a hired a high profile defense attorney. A 7.9 percent drop in BofA also ...
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Stocks Barely Close Higher After Trimming Early Gains
San Francisco Chronicle
The SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY) added 0.08% to $112.73. Volume was heavier than normal with 274.6 million SPY shares trading hands compared to a 3-month daily average of 257.6 million. The PowerShares QQQ Trust ETF (NASDAQ: QQQ), which tracks the ...
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US STOCKS-Bargain hunters tiptoe back but remain cautious
Reuters
[ID:nN1E77L1G9] About 8.46 billion shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, in line with last year's daily average of 8.47 billion. On theNYSE, decliners beat advancers by a ratio of four to three, ...
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Top Portfolio Products: Cantor Fitzgerald to Launch ETF Arbitrage, Van Eck ...
AdvisorOne
Also, Cannabis Science announced preliminary approval for a new class of shares, Gemma Wright-Casparius joined the Vanguard Group, and First Trust will ring the opening bell at the NYSE in celebration of the launch of 14 ETFs. ...
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How You Can Become a Better Investor
Motley Fool
More sophisticated investors chose to invest in individual stocks. Nowadays, you have so many more choices at your fingertips. Exchange-traded funds give you lightning-quick exposure to a wide range of stock, bond, commodity, and other financial ...
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THE 5 COMPANIES IN THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS INDUSTRY WITH THE LOWEST FORWARD ...
Zacks.com
Using projected earnings for the current fiscal year, the forward earnings yield is useful to compare astock's return vs. owning a similar stock or other yield assets (eg bonds). Generally, the higher the earnings yield, the more undervalued the stock ...
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Entered Ichimoku Cloud - AEC, AFB, AN, BNZ, CDE
Health Talk & You
The 52-week range of the stock is $21.85 – $27.17. BNZ's market capitalization is $48.10M and it has - outstanding shares. Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation (NYSE:CDE) went up 2.86%, to close at $25.50 and its overall traded volume was 2.56M shares in ...
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P&F Ascending Triple Top Breakout – DGL, DGP, DNP, ED, EDV
Retirement Planning
The 52-week range of the stock is $31.78 – $70.27. At current market price, the market capitalization of the company stands at $1.35B and it has - outstanding shares. DNP Select Income Fund Inc. (NYSE:DNP) moved up 0.62%, to close at $9.74 and its ...
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RELATIVELY LOW FORWARD EARNINGS YIELD IN THE GENERAL MERCHANDISE STORES ...
Zacks.com
99 Cents Only Stores (NYSE:NDN - Snapshot Report) follows with a Forward Earnings Yield of 6.91% and Dollar General (NYSE:DG - Snapshot Report) rounds out the group with a Forward Earnings Yield of 6.99%. SmarTrend currently has shares of Tuesday ...
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HAVERTY FURNITURE IS AMONG THE COMPANIES IN THE HOMEFURNISHING RETAIL INDUSTRY ...
Zacks.com
Aaron's (NYSE:AAN - Snapshot Report) follows with a Forward Earnings Yield of 7.56% and Williams-Sonoma (NYSE:WSM - Snapshot Report) rounds out the group with a Forward Earnings Yield of 7.69%. SmarTrend currently has shares of Select Comfort in an ...
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HP directors defend change in strategy that saw a share price collapse
SMEweb
Hewlett Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) bosses have come out fighting in defence of their sharp change in the tech group's strategy last week, which saw a share price collapse and growing shareholder alarm. Mr Apotheker said in an exclusive interview on ...
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When Fear Becomes Opportunity: Equity And Yield Ideas To Buy Now
Seeking Alpha
Credit and default risk aside, senior loans typically have preference over bonds, preferred shares and common stock at liquidation. We own First Trust Senior FR (FCT), which sports a discount of -6.51% to NAV and a current yield of 6.65% FCT pays ...
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The Investing Tightrope: Can't Relax, Can't Freak Out
Investorplace.com
I recently snapped up shares of McDonald's (NYSE:MCD), Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) and Target (NYSE:TGT) for my personal account. Investors don't have better alternatives to prepare for retirement than the stock market. The US mutual fund industry held $11.8 ...
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Is Dividend Investing a Smart Alternative to Savings Accounts
The Dough Roller
To make a long story short, on Friday I sunk a big chunk of the cash into Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ). Some cash will still go to the bond fund, but I want to explain why I moved a good piece of the cash from an FDIC insured bank account to a ...
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MetLife Bumps Prudential as Top US Seller of Variable Annuities in 2Q
Insurance News Net (press release)
Capturing first place was MetLife (NYSE: MET), with year-to-date sales of $12.6 billion . Holly Sheffer , a MetLife spokeswoman, said the company's guaranteed minimum income benefit is its core rider, rather than the guaranteed minimum withdrawal ...
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Thoughts On Gold & Oil and What Could Be Next (GLD, USO, IAU, SPY)
ETF Daily News
The stock market (NYSE:SPY) has been hit hard and a lot of damage has also been done to the charts on a technical stand point. The amount of damage and fear that has happening generally takes some time to stabilize and heal before another move takes ...
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Morgan Stanley Biggest Welfare Recipient as Federal Reserve Lent Banks $1.2 ...
Wall St. Cheat Sheet
And as the crisis got worse, the Fed's standards for acceptable collateral became looser, accepting “junk” bonds and even stocks. While the Fed's lending program usually charged above-market interest rates to make them the last stop for banks, ...
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Legg Mason's Scholars Choice® College Savings Program Continues to Earn ...
PR Newswire (press release)
22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Legg Mason, Inc. (NYSE: LM) reported today that its Scholars Choice® College Savings Program was again recognized as one of the two best advisor-sold 529 plans by Savingforcollege.com. Scholars Choice was the # 2-ranked ...
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Morning Call: Markets Cheer Libyan Insurrection
ETF Daily News (blog)
(NYSE:HPQ) is up almost 2% this morning after taking a beating on Friday. The tech giant cut its sales outlook, and may end up shedding its personal computer business. The move would signal a major overhaul of the company's core business, ...
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ETF Daily News (blog)
While Volatility Hammers The Market, I'm Sitting And Collecting Dividends ...
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
First, AGNC and Invesco Mortgage Capital Inc (NYSE: IVR). Rates are down, bonds are up, and the Fed fund futures doesn't show rate increases anytime soon. All good things for AGNC and IVR. My last position is FTR. It missed earnings by a cent and the ...
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New CCI Sell Signals - CVG, CWB, CWT, CXS, DCI
Retirement Planning
Donaldson Company, Inc. (NYSE:DCI) fell -2.85%, to close at $49.02 and its overall traded volume was 429035.00 shares in the last trading session. DCI opened at $49.49 and is trading within the range of $49.01-$50.84. The stock has a 52 week range of ...
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Most stocks drop as Goldman Sachs, BofA drive banks lower
San Diego Source (subscription)
Barclays Plc (NYSE: BCS) said 10-year yields indicate traders have priced in $500 billion to $600 billion of Treasury purchases by the Fed. Citigroup (NYSE: C) said current rates can only be justified by more central bank bond buying or assuming the ...
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Dip Buyers Beware: Odds Favor Lower Lows In Stocks (SLV, GLD, TLT, EWZ, SPY)
ETF Daily News (blog)
The strong interest in bonds (NYSE:TLT) and the across-the-board weakness in global stocks are bringing into question Wall Street's canned responses of 'buy on dips', 'this is an excellent buying opportunity', 'valuations look attractive', ...
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Valuations Compelling, Economic Outlook Cloudy
Daily Markets
Instead we saw a stunning rally in the bond market and yields plunging, along with a plunging stockmarket. It was not really a big drop in the inflation expectations component of interest rates, but a plunge in the real rate. ...
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NBR Transcripts for August 22, 2011
PBS Nightly Business Report
In the case of Vallejo, after three years in bankruptcy, a federal judge this summer OK'd its repayment plan, but those areas are the exceptions, not the rules, when it comes to municipalbonds. Last fall, financial analyst Meredith (NYSE: MDP) Whitney ...
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Korea Investment Corp is Buying Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC ...
By Shayne Heffernan
(NYSE:BAC). South Korea's KIC bought US$78-M of BofA shares so far. South Korea's sovereign wealth fund, Korea Investment Corp., aka KIC, has purchased US$78-M in Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC) shares this year, saying that the US ...
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