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Stock Market News for April 15, 2010 - Market News
Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 9:15am | 605Investors found plenty of reasons to send stocks rallying Wednesday. While J.P. Morgan and Intel’s better-than-estimated earnings numbers fueled expectations for a strong earnings season, a slew of positive economic data offered upbeat signals about a strengthening economic recovery. J.P. Morgan (...
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Benzinga’s News Roundup (PPG, FCS, SPB, ETR)
Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 8:50am | 296PPG Industries, Inc. (NYSE: PPG) reported today a first-quarter profit of $30 million, or $0.18 per share, from a loss of $111 million, or $0.68 per share, in the year-ago period. Sales rose 12% to $3.13 billion, from $2.78 billion in the year ago period. Analysts expected PPG to earn $0.63 per...
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Stocks To Watch On April 15 (GOOG, AMD, FCS, PPG, UPS)
Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 6:41am | 222Some of the shares that are expected to see active trading in today’s session are: Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is expected to post earnings of $6.59 a share for the first quarter. GOOG is set to report its results after the market closes. GOOG has risen by 0.17% in after hours. Wall Street analysts...
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IBM Leads SOA Market - Analyst Blog
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 1:45pm | 492International Business Machines (IBM) announced that WinterGreen Research has named the company as the world's number one vendor based on its leading market share for service oriented architecture (SOA). SOA is an important segment within the overall middleware software market. IBM reported...
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DuPont Gets “Buy” Rating (DD)
Monday, April 12, 2010 - 5:43pm | 154Equity research firm Jefferies & Co. has given a “buy” rating to DuPont (NYSE: DD). According to a report released by the research firm, DuPont (DD) has an opportunity to increase its shares in the seed business. DuPont has also shown promise to achieve growth via mergers and acquisitions. The...
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Top Stocks of Delaware
Monday, April 12, 2010 - 2:28pm | 892The state of Delaware was the first state of the Union to ratify the Constitution on December 7, 1787. Today the state is home to some of the largest companies around the world. Delaware’s business-friendly laws and incentives make it the nation’s number one choice for incorporating a company. 1...
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“Mad Money Lightning Round:” Jim Vouches For ACOM, JPM, OC, FITB, DD, HAL
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 7:33am | 303In his "Mad Money Lightning Round," Jim Cramer said that MGM Mirage (NYSE: MGM) does not have a good balance sheet. As travel is making a comeback, traders can speculate through Wynn Resorts (NASDAQ: WYNN), which is the best in the industry. Jim said that although trading in MetroPCS...
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IBM Sells PLM Operations - Analyst Blog
Monday, April 5, 2010 - 11:45am | 531International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) announced the completion of the sale of its sales and client support operations to Dassault Systèmes (DS), a leading provider of 3D software and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. The acquisition will fetch IBM approximately $600 million,...
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Specialty Chemicals Industry Update (ALB, SOA, ASH)
Thursday, April 1, 2010 - 9:26am | 102Analysts Laurence Alexander, Lucy Watson and Amanda Sigouin at Jefferies & Company, Inc. have released a report on the Specialty Chemicals industry. According to the report, the chemical sector, excluding industrial gases, outperformed S&P 500 by 6% in the first-quarter. Analysts expect...
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Olin Corporation (OLN) Maintains Buy (1) Rating
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 - 1:52pm | 98Analysts Frank J. Mitsch and Sabina Chatterjee at BB&T Capital Markets have released an update on Olin Corporation (NYSE: OLN). BB&T Capital Markets recently hosted the company at its 2010 Commercial & Industrial Conference. During the conference the company’s management discussed...
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Energy, Material Stocks Pull Down US Market From Handsome Gains
Friday, March 26, 2010 - 6:52am | 315After starting the day handsomely, the US market lost most of its day’s gains in the last trading hour. The strengthening US dollar pulled down lots of energy and material names, overshadowing the upbeat results from the retail and technology sectors. Owen Fitzpatrick, head of the US equity group...
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Reduce Your Risk In The Initial Public Offering Market With This IPO ETF
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 7:56pm | 2056“Everybody loves the romance of an IPO — a company going public with the potential to deliver huge profits to those investors on the ground floor. But the reality of initial public offerings are very different than the storybook version some traders believe. Trying to research these tiny upstarts...
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Top Five Dow Stocks With High Yields (DD, MRK, PFE, T, VZ)
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 5:46am | 227According to an article by Stockerblog on Seeking Alpha, twenty stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average have yields of 2% or more. Among these, five have yields at or higher than 4%. At the top of the high-yielding stocks is AT&T Inc (NYSE: T). It has an yield of 6.4% and has a forward...
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The High Yielders of the Dow
Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 1:58am | 331Income investors looking for large companies paying high yields don't have to look far. Twenty of the stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average pay yields of 2% or more, and five of them have yields of 4% and higher. AT&T Inc. (T), which is at the top of the list, has a yield of 6.4%, and...
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Investors Need To Pay More Attention To Dividend ETFs In 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 1:44pm | 1310“Stocks delivered nicely in 2009, with the S&P 500 ETF (NYSE:SPY) shooting up an impressive 23.5% and emerging markets were even more impressive. Even bond investors in high yield and junk debt performed admirably throughout the year. The real question now, is what will 2010 hold for investors...