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GE Releases 2010 Annual Report; Sees Economic Strength
Monday, March 14, 2011 - 8:22am | 159GE (NYSE: GE) today announced that its 2010 annual report entitled “Growth Starts Here” is now available on the Company's Web site at www.ge.com/ar2010/. “In 2010, growth resumed and our earnings expanded by 15%,” GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt writes in his letter to shareowners. “GE Capital's...
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Citi Reiterates Hold Rating On 3M
Monday, March 14, 2011 - 8:08am | 194In a report published by Citi, 3M's (NYSE: MMM) Hold rating is reiterated. Citi said that even though 3M recently held its year-end analyst meeting in NYC in early Dec, there are a handful of debate items that should hold investor interest at the company's upcoming March 17 investor meeting in St...
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Buffett's Hunt for the Next Elephant: 13 Potential Big Game Stocks
Saturday, March 12, 2011 - 6:26pm | 135Buffett made a big splash into freight transportation with Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK.A) purchase of Burlington Railroad with his announcement in November 2009. Lately, Berkshire Hathaway has increased its mounting cash hoard due to lucrative contracts with Goldman Sachs (GS) and General Electric (...
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Bulls Have Conviction Going into Weekend 03-11-11
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 7:23pm | 778Cusick's Corner Nice bounce with authority. The After Hours were solid, trading with strong volume and wider scope. The bulls have the conviction coming into the weekend. All eyes will be on Asia, monitoring Japan, and any further activity in the Middle East. Have a good weekend. Stocks are...
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Retail Sales Strong 03-11-11
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 5:22pm | 963Cusick's Corner The market was relatively strong into the Midday in the face of the tragedy in Japan, but support is now resistance. 1300 is that S&P level where support was holding up until the last two sessions. The market will need to do some work into the After Hours in order for the...
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Earnings Scheduled For March 10 (NSM, PLL, KIRK, ARO, BKE, MTN, ACAD, JMBA, ZUMZ, AAON, SWHC, AVII, LCUT, RAVN)
Thursday, March 10, 2011 - 3:51am | 401National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: NSM) is estimated to post its Q3 earnings at $0.24 per share on revenue of $353.96 million. Pall Corp (NYSE: PLL) is expected to post its Q2 earnings at $0.57 per share on revenue of $606.56 million. Kirkland's Inc (NASDAQ: KIRK) is expected to post its...
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Tyco International Shareholders Approve Dividend Increase
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 11:15am | 95Tyco International Ltd. (NYSE: TYC) today announced that its shareholders approved an approximate 20 percent increase in its annual dividend and elected Dinesh Paliwal to the company's Board of Directors during its Annual General Meeting. Shareholders approved an annual dividend of $1.00 per share...
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GE Announces New $40M Grid IQ™ Innovation Center in Markham, Ontario
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 10:18am | 93Today GE (NYSE: GE) and the Government of Ontario announced a new $40 million Grid IQ™ Innovation Center, the first center of its kind for GE in Canada, to be located in Markham, Ontario. Grid IQ is GE's companywide commitment to solving customers' toughest challenges with more efficient, reliable...
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Top 4 Mid-Cap Stocks In The Meat Products Industry With The Highest EPS (SEB, TSN, HRL, SFD)
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 3:43am | 150Below are the top mid-cap meat product stocks on the NYSE, the NASDAQ and the AMEX in terms of earnings per share. The trailing-twelve-month earnings per share at Seaboard Corporation (AMEX: SEB) is $157.10. SEB's revenue for the same period is $4.14 billion. The trailing-twelve-month earnings...
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Standex Acquires Metal Spinners Group
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 9:30am | 86Standex International Corporation (NYSE: SXI) today announced that it has acquired Metal Spinners Group Ltd., a U.K.-based metal fabrication supplier to the medical, general industrial and oil and gas markets in the U.S., U.K., and China. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The...
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GE Capital, Franchise Finance Lends $13.2 Million to Hardee's® Fast Food Franchisee, Ponder Enterprises, Inc.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - 9:06am | 57GE Capital (NYSE: GE), Franchise Finance provided $13.2 million in financing to Ponder Enterprises, Inc., one of Hardee's largest franchise operators The credit facility, consisting of an $11.2 million term loan and a $2 million development line of credit, is being used to refinance existing debt...
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Fast Money Picks For March 8th (WLT, HK, COSWF, CVI)
Monday, March 7, 2011 - 8:10pm | 200On CNBC's Fast Money, Tim Seymour said that investors should take a short position in Walter Energy, Inc. (NYSE: WLT), because of a decline in iron ore and coking coal prices. Walter Energy, Inc. (WLT) fell 1.59% in the regular trading session, and it dropped additional 1.20% in the after hours....
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Tredegar Board Declares Increased Dividend
Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 5:10pm | 62The board of directors of Tredegar Corporation (NYSE: TG) declared a quarterly dividend of four and one-half cents ($.045) per share on the company's common stock, representing a two cent ($.02) increase in the dividend on an annualized basis. The dividend is payable on April 1, 2011 to...
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How To Trade Tomorrow's Nonfarm Payrolls (UUP, DE, MMM)
Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 2:23pm | 275Tomorrow we're going to see the release of the Nonfarm Payrolls report for February, and economists are putting heavy weight on this report. At 8:30 a.m., the Bureau of Labor will give its monthly report. Economists are looking for 180,000 jobs to be added in the month of February. In January,...
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IWM & Lazy Man
Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 10:56am | 298In the latest Lazy Man study I've merged the old 3 Finger Lead concept with the Lazy Man (SPY, EEM, XLB, QQQQ and TLT) to forecast trade opportunities in the BZB Market Rotator portfolio of 13 ETFs and 1 stock (GE). These signals are completely independent of the Prognosticator signal but we'll...