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John Barnett Named President of U-Haul Company of Los Angeles East
Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 4:04pm | 183The U-Haul Company of Los Angeles East (Co. 713) today announced the promotion of John Barnett to president. Barnett will be responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the company, including truck, trailer and storage rentals. Barnett began his U-Haul career in January 2006 as a customer...
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KBR Awarded Design Build Contract Worth $130M
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 4:18pm | 76KBR (NYSE: KBR) today announced that it has been awarded a contract to provide building services engineering for a $130 million USD apartment complex in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The apartment complex is being developed by PNG's Motor Vehicles Insurance Limited in partnership with Moss Capital, and...
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Citigroup Maintains Its Buy Rating On WMB
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 - 8:12am | 157Citigroup has published a research report on The Williams Companies (NYSE: WMB) after the company announced its CEO would be retiring. In the report, Citigroup writes "WMB announced [yesterday] that current CEO& Chairman of the Board, Steve Malcolm, 62, will retire at the end of the year. Alan...
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KBR Appoints President, Power and Industrial Business Unit
Monday, October 11, 2010 - 4:43pm | 93KBR (NYSE: KBR) today announced that Jim Stewart has been appointed Business Unit President, KBR Power and Industrial. Since June 2010, Stewart has served as Senior Vice President, KBR Power and Industrial. Prior to joining KBR, Stewart served as Group Vice President of Houston-based Jacobs'...
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Monday's Put/Call Ratio Leaders (PHM, AIXG, PWR, SCHW, EXEL)
Monday, October 11, 2010 - 1:41pm | 91Here is a quick peek at stocks that have abnormally high daily put/call ratios today relative to their average…. 1. PulteGroup Inc. (NYSE: PHM) 20,058 puts, 192 calls 2. Aixtron (NASDAQ: AIXG) 3,002 puts, 46 calls 3. Quanta Services Inc. (NYSE: PWR) 3,690 puts, 67 calls 4. Charles Schwab Corp. (...
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Options Traders Bullish on Aecom (ACM)
Monday, October 11, 2010 - 12:33pm | 159Shares of AECOM Technology Corporation (NYSE: ACM) are higher on the session by 2.40%, currently trading at $24.98. The stock has been moving largely lower over the past six months, off of a recent high near $30.75. Shares seem to have formed a double-bottom near $22.00 as of late. Options traders...
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Bears Powering Down Quanta Services (PWR)
Monday, October 11, 2010 - 10:52am | 171Shares of Quanta Services, Inc. (NYSE: PWR) are flat on the session, currently trading at $20.00. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past four weeks, though is now sitting at resistance via the $20.00 resistance level, as well as the 200-day moving average. Options traders are...
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Benzinga's Top Downgrades (FO, PUK, GLDD, COST)
Monday, October 11, 2010 - 9:58am | 160Fortune Brands Inc (NYSE: FO) was downgraded by Robert W Baird from "outperform" to "neutral." FO's shares closed at $55.85 on Friday. Fortune Brands Inc's 52-week trading range is $36.90-$59.40. JP Morgan downgraded Prudential Public Limited Company (NYSE: PUK) from "neutral" to "underweight." PUK...
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Piper Jaffray Reiterates Overweight on Quanta Services (PWR)
Friday, October 8, 2010 - 9:36am | 150Piper Jaffray is out with a research report this morning, where it reiterates its Overweight rating on Quanta Services (NYSE: PWR); it has a $24.00 price target on the stock. The PJ analysts cited a recent meeting with players in the telecommunications area including tower construction firms and...
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Top 4 Stocks In the General Contractors Industry With The Highest Operating Cash Flow (PWR, CBI, EME, FIX)
Friday, October 8, 2010 - 4:59am | 151Below are the top general contractor stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of operating cash flow. The trailing-twelve-month operating cash flow at Quanta Services Inc (NYSE: PWR) is $239.64 million. PWR's shares have lost 10.73% over the past 52 weeks, while the S&P 500 index has gained 8...
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Jacobs' Five-Year Contract - Analyst Blog
Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 4:21pm | 363Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (JEC) recently won a five-year $50 million contract from Millennium Challenge Corporation to supply professional services. This was the first contract for Jacobs in the month of October. In September, the company won a number of contracts including a contract from...
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Emerson Wins Major Contract to Provide Inverters and Plant-Wide Controls
Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 11:00am | 135Emerson (NYSE: EMR) has been awarded a contract to supply power inverters and plant-wide controls for what will be California's largest photovoltaic power generation facility and one of the largest in the world. Quanta Services (NYSE: PWR) awarded the contract to Emerson for the zero-emission...
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Foster Wheeler Awarded Carbon Capture Study Contract
Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 8:15am | 74Foster Wheeler AG (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by the CO2 Capture Project (CCP)* to undertake a study to evaluate a range of refinery, in-situ extraction of bitumen and natural gas power generation CO2 capture...
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Fast Money Picks For October 7th (ICA, ORCL, NCR, COL)
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 7:06pm | 169Tim Seymour said on CNBC's Fast Money that he wants to buy Empresas ICA SA (ADR) (NYSE: ICA) on Thursday. He added that Empresas ICA (ICA) is a play on Mexican infrastructure. Empresas ICA SA (ADR) (ICA) gained 0.20% today. Guy Adami believes that Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) should be bought...
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KBR Dividend Declaration
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 4:14pm | 47KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today that its Board of Directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of five cents ($0.05) per share on the company's common stock, payable January 17, 2011, to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 15, 2010.