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Overnight Market Action 11-12-2010
Friday, November 12, 2010 - 3:36pm | 933Cusick's Corner I am tired – was up last night watching the latest market action. China has been dropping on inflation fears, adding fuel to the currency debate and then the delay of the Fed open market purchase brought out all the conspiracy theorists. These are the types of headlines that could...
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Green Mountain Coffee Falling (GMCR)
Friday, November 12, 2010 - 1:06pm | 93Shares of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR) are under pressure during Friday's trading session, falling 3.74% to $31.43. Around 2.7 million shares have already traded hands on the day. GMCR has been extremely volatile in recent months, and year-to-date, the stock has returned 16%....
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Top 4 Large-Cap Stocks In The Consumer Goods Sector With The Highest ROE (LO, PM, CPB, MO)
Friday, November 12, 2010 - 6:19am | 136Below are the top large-cap consumer good stocks on the NASDAQ and the NYSE in terms of return on equity. The trailing-twelve-month return on equity at Lorillard Inc (NYSE: LO) is 590.09%. LO's quarterly earnings surged 16.60% y/y. The trailing-twelve-month return on equity at Philip Morris...
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Benzinga's Top ETF Decliners (SGG, DAG, BAL, TYH)
Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 5:43pm | 217iPath Dow Jones-UBS Sugar Subindex Total Return ETN (NYSE: SGG) led the decliners among the ETFs on Thursday, with a 12.24% decline. SGG traded lower as sugar futures dropped more than 9%. Stronger dollar and lower prices on China's Zhengzhou exchange were cited as reasons for the decline. There...
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First You Get The Sugar, Then You Get The Money (IPSU)
Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 2:34pm | 188Sugar, the commodity, is getting smacked today, down 9%, but so are shares of Imperial Sugar Company (NASDAQ: IPSU). Sugar is obviously IPSU's main input cost, and one would think that when the price of sugar is going down, the share price of IPSU would go up. This is something to keep an eye on,...
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Human Genome Sciences Rising On Unusual Volume (HGSI)
Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 1:48pm | 83Human Genome Sciences (NASDAQ: HGSI) is rising on unusual volume during Thursday's trading session. HGSI has surged 4.55% to $25.44. Volume has been heavy, with more than 2.75 million shares already changing hands on the day. Human Genome Sciences (HGS) is a commercially focused biopharmaceutical...
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Campbell's Cuts Sales Outlook - Analyst Blog
Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 12:33pm | 291Soup giant Campbell Soup Co. (CPB) lowered its outlook for fiscal 2011 anticipating weak first-quarter 2011 results. The company noted that in spite of higher levels of spending on promotion, purchases of its soup by U.S. consumers remained lackluster. The sluggish economic conditions and an...
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Zacks Sell List Highlights: ZHONGPIN INC. Kimberly-Clark, Papa John's Int'l and hhgregg - Press Releases
Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 11:33am | 1279For Immediate Release Chicago, IL –November 11, 2010 – Zacks.com releases details on a group of stocks that are currently members of the exclusive Zacks #5 Rank List – Stocks to Sell Now. These stocks are currently rated as a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell): ZHONGPIN INC. (HOGS) and Kimberly-Clark...
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KIMBERLY CLARK (KMB) - Profit Tracks
Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 10:36am | 582Since inception in 1988, the S&P 500 has outperformed the Zacks #5 Rank List - Stocks to Sell Now by 80% annually (+2% versus +10%). While the rest of Wall Street continued to tout stocks during the market declines of the last few years, Zacks told investors which stocks to sell or avoid...
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Cosan Tops on Higher Revenues - Analyst Blog
Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 10:36am | 692Cosan Limited's (CZZ) net earnings in the second quarter of 2011 were US$76.7 million, up 20% year over year and above $11.9 million of net loss reported in the previous quarter. The net income improvement was driven by higher revenues due to an increase in volumes sold, higher prices and...
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Mad Money Lightning Round: Cramer Reiterates Buy On KKR Financial Holdings (GMCR, OVTI, AAPL, PFE, ABT, KFN, MOT, GOOG)
Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 4:57am | 220On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said during the Lightning Round that he is worried about Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR). He added, “I'm not a fan. I don't need the accounting questions. I regard it as questionable." For OmniVision Technologies (NASDAQ: OVTI), he said, "Their chips...
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Rolls for Breakfast 11-10-2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 6:54pm | 996Cusick's Corner Yesterday's pullback felt more like profit taking than a negative reaction to any data release or headline. The Claims data for both new and existing dropped, resulting in an early morning pullback that gave some strategists the opportunity to reposition. One way to reposition in...
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Tasty Baking Company Declares Dividend of 5 Cents
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 5:01pm | 55Tasty Baking Company (Nasdaq: TSTY) today announced that its Board of Directors on November 10, 2010, declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.05 per share on all outstanding shares of common stock. The dividend is payable December 1, 2010, to shareholders of record as of the close of...
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Two Cheap Commodities: Milk and Cocoa
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 1:24pm | 1205Everything is more expensive than it was a year ago Except for chocolate milk An ETN and a highly speculative stock It's tough not to get caught up in the whirlwind of excitement of record highs for gold and huge gains...
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Bearish MACD for ConAgra - Tale of the Tape
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 12:03pm | 116ConAgra Foods, Inc. 's (CAG) MACD indicator has moved into bearish territory with a reading of -0.0324. The Zacks #4 Rank (“Sell”) stock decreased slightly to $22.00 in the morning trade. The Zacks Consensus Estimate on the company's earnings for the year ending May 2011 has decreased by 6 cents...