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Is GE a Buy?
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 7:10pm | 179General Electric (GE) has been on a roll this month with the stock ending the day at $18.07. GE is up 14.2% for the month with shares rising from $15.83 entering March. Are GE shares a buy at the current price? According to the Pit Boss, GE is a buy. Pete Najarian recommended buying GE this evening...
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Fast Money Picks For March 17th (AA, WDC, AMR, GE)
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 6:48pm | 129CNBC Fast Money's Joe Terranova wants to go short on AMR Corporation (NYSE: AMR) tomorrow. AMR Corp. (AMR) dropped 1.83% today and closed at $9.66. Tim Seymour likes Alcoa (NYSE: AA) and Guy Adami would buy Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC). Alcoa (AA) closed 2.15% higher today, while Western...
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General Electric May Raise Dividend Rate (GE)
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 4:45pm | 131General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) expects to raise its dividend in 2011. Speaking at an investor conference, CEO Keith Sherin said, “We have very good visibility around our cash flow ... If you think about 2011 for us, we believe we're going to have earnings growth. We plan to resume growing the...
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Playing GE’s Breakout
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 10:11am | 177General Electric (NYSE: GE) has solidly broken out of its trading range and reached new highs over the past few days. Today it is pushing higher again, up another 1.16% to 17.49. This along with action in many other large and mega cap stocks seems to be indicating a rotation out of high beta names...
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Wal-Mart (WMT) scores an upgrade
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 10:08am | 1477Watch for … rising prices? An analyst with Citigroup expects an improving outlook in shares of Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE: WMT) and boosted the stock’s rating to “buy” from “hold.” Citigroup also upped its 12-month price target to $65 from $54. WMT closed at $53.90 on Friday but gained nearly 3% on...
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Stock Market News for March 16, 2010 - Market News
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 9:58am | 426Nagging worries about the world economy kept buyers from making big moves yesterday but stocks managed to inch higher towards the close as Wal-Mart shares received a Citigroup analyst upgrade and financials strengthened after Christopher Dodd’s unveiling of a less-harsher-than-anticipated...
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GOLDMAN’S FAVORITE HIGH YIELD GROWTH PLAYS
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 3:02am | 370Finding yield in a zero interest rate world isn’t easy. Finding growth and income can be even more difficult. In their 2010 outlook Goldman Sachs said the bull market was likely to continue and that high growth dividend stocks would play an important role in their portfolios. Goldman recently...
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Siemens Drops Unit Sale Plan (SI)
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 4:56pm | 117German conglomerate Siemens (NYSE: SI) has dropped plans to sell its hearing aid unit. The company shelved its plans as a result of low bids. Siemens (SI) had previously expressed its reluctance to consider bids below $2.75 billion. According to sources, Siemens is now considering investing more on...
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Investors Are Turning To Small and Mid Cap ETFs In 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 4:50pm | 1603“An ETF for U.S. small-cap stocks, iShares S&P Small Cap 600 Index Fund (IJR), set a fresh 52-week high on Friday and is trading at levels last seen right around Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in September 2008. Small and mid-sized stocks have outpaced large-cap shares measured by the...
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Heavy Options Activity in Amylin Pharmaceuticals (AMLN) and Allergan (AGN)
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 3:17pm | 1639The broad market is still relatively sideways with volume remaining light, even with triple-witching expiration this Friday. The market is beginning to weaken a bit here, but that trend has been reversing itself over the past week. The VIX is creeping back up towards 18.75% after being pressured...
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Bookkeeping: Weekly Changes to Fund Positions Year 3, Week 32
Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 9:27pm | 2115Year 3, Week 32 Major Position Changes To see historic weekly fund changes click here OR the label at the bottom of this entry entitled 'fund positions'. Cash: 73.1% (v 66.5% last week) 17 long bias: 19.2% (v 22.1% last week) 5 short bias: 7.7% (v 12.4% last week) [Includes 1 'long dollar' position...
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Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Ford, General Electric, Siemens, China Mobile and Claymore China Small-Cap ETF
Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 4:37pm | 1471Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Ford (NYSE: F), General Electric (NYSE: GE), Siemens (NYSE:...
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Aeropostale (ARO) Challenges Resistance
Friday, March 12, 2010 - 5:17pm | 1496Thursday night, apparel retailer Aeropostale (NYSE: ARO) announced earnings that topped analysts’ estimates by four cents per share, while revenue was in line. The company also lifted its guidance for the first quarter and for fiscal year 2011. Following this upside surprise, Piper Jaffray...
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How Have the High Priced Shares Performed?
Friday, March 12, 2010 - 3:17pm | 461Back 0n August 21, 2008, we published an article called Top High Priced Share Stocks, which listed all the stocks trading in excess of $100 a share, that had P/E ratios less than 20, PEG ratios less than 1, market caps above $15 billion, and all but one paid a dividend. Remember, this is just...
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Is Walter Energy (WLT) destined for greatness?
Friday, March 12, 2010 - 12:53pm | 1572In last night’s edition of CNBC’s Mad Money, Jim Cramer said he thinks Walter Energy (NYSE: WLT) is the way to play China’s insatiable appetite for coal. The company’s shares were trading at $86.83 at the time of Cramer’s bullish call. When a market pundit sends out comments like this, investors...