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The Daily Long and Short Setup
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 8:32am | 85Futures have rallied ever so slightly to place the market in positive territory. However, it appears as if the market plans on staying as close to yesterday's close as possible. Here are the trade setups for today... LONG: Aflac (AFL) Read more...
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Torchmark Corp. Boosts Dividend - Analyst Blog
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 4:38pm | 458The Board of Directors for Torchmark Corp. (TMK) authorized a 7% increase in quarterly dividend. Torchmark will now pay a quarterly dividend of 16 cents per share, up from 15 cents per share, paid on July 30, 2010. The increased dividend will be paid on November 1, 2010 to shareholders of record...
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Berkshire Hathaway & Buffett’s Latest Stock Holdings ‘S to Z’ (BRK-B, BRK-A, SNY, TIF, TMK, USB, USG, UPS, WMT, WPO, WFC, WSC)
Tuesday, August 17, 2010 - 7:40am | 191Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) has shown its latest holdings as of the close on June 30, 2010. These have been broken down into 3 groups of ‘A to G’ and ‘H to R’ and ‘S to Z’ so it is more concise and clear to see the path of changes etc. Here are Warren Buffett’s holdings and accompanying...
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Bullish MACD for FBL Financial - Tale of the Tape
Monday, August 16, 2010 - 4:34pm | 107FBL Financial Group’s (FFG) MACD indicator has entered into bullish territory with a reading of 0.1530. The Zacks #1 Rank (“Strong Buy”) stock gained more than 1% to $22.68 in afternoon trade. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2010 jumped 22 cents over the past week to $2.79 per share. FBL FINL GRP-...
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A.M. Best Rates Aflac Notes - Analyst Blog
Monday, August 16, 2010 - 3:37pm | 624Basking after a good quarter, Aflac Inc. (AFL) announced on Friday that rating agency A.M. Best Co. assigned debt ratings to its newly issued senior debt securities. The existing financial strength, issuer credit and debt ratings for Aflac remain unaltered. Accordingly, A.M. Best has provided an...
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JP Morgan Upgrades AEG To Overweight
Monday, August 16, 2010 - 5:50am | 42Analysts at JP Morgan upgrade Aegon NV (NYSE: AEG) from "neutral" to "overweight." AEG’s shares lost 1.25% to close at $5.51 on Friday. More Analyst Ratings here
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Michael Block Is A Seller Of CSCO, KSS, JCP, HIG And AFL
Friday, August 13, 2010 - 6:57pm | 180Michael Block, a Chief Equities Strategist of Phoenix Partners, is a seller of the companies that posted weak earnings results. He thinks that the market is going back to the bottom of the range, and he expects that S&P 500 will test 1,010 points. Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is one of...
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Stocks To Watch For August 13 (NVDA, JCP, TMK, JWN)
Friday, August 13, 2010 - 5:47am | 181Some of the stocks that may grab the investor focus today are: Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) reported its FQ2 loss of $0.25 per share, as compared with a loss of $0.19 per share in the year-ago period. NVDA’s shares fell 0.68% to $8.90 in after-hours trading. Wall Street expects JC Penney (NYSE: JCP) to...
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Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Fourth Week of August
Friday, August 13, 2010 - 2:21am | 721Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends'. This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only...
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MetLife Raises $6.6B for ALICO - Analyst Blog
Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 10:36pm | 542In an attempt to raise capital for the pending ALICO acquisition, MetLife Inc. (MET) announced earlier this month the closure of its open market stock offering worth $3.6 billion. In addition, the company also sealed the public offering of its senior debts worth $3.0 billion. While the common...
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Aegon Swings to Profit - Analyst Blog
Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 6:04pm | 681Dutch insurer Aegon NV (AEG) reported second quarter net income of €413 million (US$538 million), which came in substantially ahead of the net loss of €161 million (US$210 million) in the year-ago quarter. The momentous swing was primarily due to improved earnings, realized gains on investments,...
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StanCorp Downgraded to Underperform - Analyst Blog
Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 5:34pm | 333We recently downgraded StanCorp Financial Group (SFG) to Underperform from Neutral, as we suspect organic growth will remain restricted in the near term given the sluggish economic environment and challenging labor market conditions. Additionally, delinquencies on commercial mortgage loans are...
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Torchmark Corporation Raises Dividend to $0.16
Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 4:44pm | 72Torchmark Corporation (NYSE: TMK) announced that its Board of Directors has raised the quarterly dividend to $.16 per share on all of the outstanding common stock of the Company held of record as of the close of business of the Company's transfer agent on October 2, 2010. The dividend will be paid...
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Lincoln National Corporation Declares Quarterly Dividends
Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 4:25pm | 87The board of directors of Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE: LNC) declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.01 per share on the corporation's common shares and $0.75 per share on its $3 Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock Series A. The dividend on the common stock will be payable November 1,...
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Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day Highlights: Wynn Resorts, StanCorp Financial, Macy's, Visa and The Walt Disney Company - Press Releases
Thursday, August 12, 2010 - 10:07am | 2209For Immediate Release Chicago, IL –August 12, 2010 – Zacks Equity Research highlights: Wynn Resorts (WYNN) as the Bull of the Day and StanCorp Financial (SFG) as the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on Macy’s Inc. (M), Visa (V) and The Walt Disney Company (DIS...