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Posted
Oct 26 2009, 05:40 PM
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James Dlugosch
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Perhaps the little guy is finally catching on to the games that Wall Street loves to play.
Last Thursday, Dole Foods (DOLE) priced its IPO at $12.50 per share, well below an expected range of $13-$15 a share. Based on that, you might have expected it to move higher when shares opened Friday morning.
But investors sensed something sour in this offering, and it wasn't the pineapple. Shares fizzled from the start and closed down fractionally; they sat at $12.20 at Monday's close. That's not a huge loss, but it's far from IPO glory. And it reflects the caution that all investors need to have right now
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Oct 22 2009, 04:42 PM
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James Dlugosch
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Yesterday I wrote about perks for jerks. Today, the little guy gets his due.
While the economy may not be producing jobs sufficient to relieve persistent unemployment, corporations are feeling good enough to reinstate 401k matches to those currently employed.
With times tight and layoffs mounting many corporations suspended 401k matching as a way to preserve capital. No matter that doing so would hurt the very people that corporations depended on for long-term success.
The Best Vanguard Funds for your 401k
This was a time for desperate measures. Or was it a way to keep the good times rolling for those at the top?
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Oct 21 2009, 04:59 PM
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James Dlugosch
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
After all we have been through, the plush perks for bank CEOs and executives continue to grow unabated. Do they have no soul?
Apparently not. The government has bailed these guys out to the tune of $700 billion or more, yet the golf club memberships and personal use of corporate jets remains the order of the day.
Bing: Executive Compensation
Memo to the jerks: You cannot continue to behave this way without consequences.
A revolution is brewing, and anger is swelling. This kind of news will not help matters.
Instead of patting yourselves on the back for a job well done, you guys need to take a class on empathy. There are millions of Americans struggling without jobs. Many of those still with jobs find their paychecks barely get them by.
Apple still a Buy?
Is it really ok for you to be teeing it up at the finest club in town, yucking it up with your friends at shareholder and taxpayer expense
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Oct 20 2009, 03:11 PM
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InvestorPlace
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By InvestorPlace's Michael Shulman. You hear it all around you. The economic recovery this, the economic recovery that. Only problem is we're not in an economic recovery.
In fact, we are not at the end of this recession, we are in the middle of it. This will not be a V-shaped recession and recovery, folks. It is a U-shaped one at best, meaning we have a while to go before things truly pick up. But, more than likely, we are dealing with a W-shaped recession, in which we are near the end of the second leg, then down we go. Bing: Economic Recovery
Even if the economy stays flat, the stock market will almost surely head back down when the Street realizes what a jobless recovery actually looks like. So, while the statistics may point to an economic recovery this quarter or next, real people will be feeling recession pains throughout 2010. Here are five key reasons why
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Oct 16 2009, 06:59 PM
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InvestorPlace
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By InvestorPlace's Jim Woods
Yeah, we got ’em! It’s time to put some more of those greedy capitalist pigs behind bars where they belong. Yes, there’s been another high-profile insider trading case that’s rocked Wall Street. On Friday, six hedge fund managers and corporate executives—among them, one of the wealthiest men in the world—were arrested in an insider trading case that government officials claim generated more than $25 million in illegal profits.
Raj Rajaratnam, a portfolio manager for Galleon Group, a hedge fund with up to $7 billion in assets under management, is atop the list of those accused of using insider information to trade securities in several publicly-traded companies, including (Google (GOOG) and IBM (IBM).
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Oct 15 2009, 04:30 PM
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InvestorPlace
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This article is from InvestorPlace. Republican Olympia Snowe’s pivotal vote on Tuesday pushed forward a plan to extend health care coverage to an additional 29 million Americans. Say what you want about the political maneuverings, but the bottom line is that many health care companies are thrilled.
That’s because this bill means 29 million more customers. Bing: Health Care Reform
You see, it doesn’t matter whether individual patients, private insurers or Uncle Sam foots the bill. As long as more people are buying treatments, drugs and devices, it means big profits for the companies with the best health care products
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Oct 14 2009, 01:45 PM
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James Dlugosch
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
A lot of print magazines are closing their doors. But like a young teen with a secret stash, Alex Vaickus is holding onto his hard copies of Playboy.
Named the new president of Playboy Enterprises (PLA) last week, Vaickus boldly proclaimed that the print magazine would be cut “over my dead body."
Bing: More on Playboy stock
But that's bad news for Playboy shareholders because Vaickus, a 10-year-plus veteran of the company, has little hope of turning around the famous bunny unless he is willing to make bold changes
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Posted
Oct 14 2009, 11:10 AM
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Louis Navellier
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Banking giant Goldman Sachs (GS) is set to report earnings on Thursday and I, for one, am expecting an impressive blow-out.
As a behemoth on Wall Street, GS has managed to stay successful in both good times and bad. Shares are up nearly 100% over the past five years, while the Dow Jones Financial Services index fell 11% in the same time period. The future is bright for Goldman as well, with a five-year expected growth rate of 12.5%. Presently, Goldman Sachs is close to a 52-week high and closing in on the $200 per share mark. Over the past 30 days, more than half of covering analysts raised their third-quarter profit forecasts. Last quarter, the company beat expectations by $1.41.
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Oct 13 2009, 06:46 PM
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InvestorPlace
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This article was written by InvestorPlace.
In the 1970s, when crude prices were skyrocketing and demand was high, a new industry emerged: Offshore drilling.
"Why limit ourselves to land," the energy companies asked, "when there is so much wealth under the sea?" Now, gold companies are asking themselves the same question. And the result is a new industry that sounds like science fiction: Mining for gold at the bottom of the ocean. Mining the seafloor is in its infancy, but has all the potential that offshore oil and gas drilling held a few decades ago. Start-ups abound, and venture capitalists are racing for a piece of the pie.
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Oct 13 2009, 06:06 PM
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InvestorPlace
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This article is by InvestorPlace's Jim Woods.
Chipmaker Intel (INTC) did it again. The tech bellwether handily beat consensus earnings forecasts for both its bottom line and the top line, reporting a third-quarter profit of 33 cents a share on revenue of $9.39 billion. Analysts who cover the stock were expecting a bottom line number of just 28 cents a share on revenue of $9.037 billion. Of course, with a company like Intel, the forecast for the quarter ahead is of supreme significance -- not just for Intel but for many companies in PC and related sectors. And here we have what could be the real reason to smile, for not only Intel, but for many other companies that use Intel chips in their products.
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