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The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) reports strong third quarter operating results, with volume increasing 5% in both the quarter and year-to-date, ahead of our long-term growth target and cycling 2% volume growth in the prior year quarter. FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Third quarter and year-to-date 2010...

Current Long Positions (stop-losses in parentheses): TICC (9.62), BRKR (14.75), ITW (48.89), QQQQ (50.62), TIE (19.73), PAG (13.62), DTV (41.99), ACI (25.54), EOG (97.52), ANN (21.06), ESRX (46.42), AAPL (284.00) Current Short Positions (stop-losses in parentheses): None BIAS: 91% Long Economic...

By Phil of Phil's Stock World After a really fun Friday where we had another couple of massive index puts pay off in the morning, on Saturday we reviewed our October's Overbought 8 list, with half our trade ideas already past our 50% targets and 3 of the 4 remaining spreads on track. In...

PepsiCo, Inc (NYSE: PEP) today signed a memorandum outlining plans to invest $140 million to build its tenth plant in Russia, during the plenary session of Russia's Foreign Investors Advisory Council. The memorandum, for a beverage plant, was signed by Indra Nooyi, chairman and CEO, PepsiCo, and...

Citi has initiated coverage of PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) with a Hold rating and a $71 PT. PEP has consistently delivered top- and bottom-line growth over the last decade, which has led it to be one of the better performing large-cap consumer staples stocks during that time. After much debate about...

We are now officially in the thick of earnings season, which means added volatility for the marketplace. Splashy headlines like Google's surprise surge in sales are making the bulls bolder by the day. And as long as earnings reports continue to at least meet consensus estimates on average, that...

Fundamentals Despite widespread media attention and a near record long position by speculators, the gold market keeps making new all-time highs. Among the biggest factors being cited for Gold's continued rise is the lack of investor confidence in currencies. This is especially true given the...

UBS reiterates its coverage on the following stocks: VF Corp (NYSE: VFC); Buy with a $98 PT Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX); Buy with a $31 PT Protalix BioTheraputics (NYSE: PLX); BUY with a $10.75 PT Kayne Anderson Energy (NYSE: KED); Neutral with a $17 PT Hain Celestial (NASDAQ: HAIN); Neutral with a $...

Billionaire Warren Buffett is the second richest American. As most investors know, he is the head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A), the highest priced stock and one of the most successful companies during the last half-century. The company also has Class B shares (BRK-B), currently trading around 83....

John Burbank spoke at the Value Investing Congress and he said he likes physical commodity stocks, like Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM), and Potash (NYSE: POT). He also holds physical gold through UBS, not the gold ETF. (NYSE: GLD) He also said he holds Kraft (NYSE: KFT), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and Dr....

Stifel Nicolaus has downgrade the following companies from Buy to Hold: Cott (NYSE: COT) Canadian Pacific (NYSE: CP) Canadian National Rail (NYSE: CNI)

Coca-Cola Enterprises (NYSE: CCE) today announced the Company's board of directors has elected Jan Bennink as director, effective immediately. The Company also announced that Fernando Aguirre will be leaving the board of directors, effective November 30. Mr. Aguirre was elected to the company's...

The earnings season kicked off last week with better-than-expected results from Alcoa (NYSE: AA) and Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM), while Marriott (NYSE: MAR) and Pepsico (PEP) met consensus EPS estimates. This week, bellwether companies Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), General Electric (NYSE: GE), Google (Nasdaq:...