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Estimating Future Dividend Growth

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:21:36 GMT

Estimating future dividend growth is difficult if not impossible. Companies which might have had a long history of consistent double digit increases might stop raising dividends and might even cut them.[More...]

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT): Third Quarter Earnings Preview 2009

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:55:00 GMT

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT) is scheduled to report its fiscal third quarter 2009 financial results on Thursday, November 12, 2009.[More...]

Wells Fargo (WFC) Kicks The Can By Transofrming Option ARM Mortgages Into Interest Only

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:31:26 GMT

If you are not familiar with what an option ARM mortgage is, read this piece (Aug 13, 2008: Option ARMs- Who Thought Up these Time Bombs?)). I too was unfamiliar with it, despite following markets closely, until I read a BusinessWeek article in October 2006. Interest only mortgages? Yep I knew about those.[More...]

Biostar Raises $3.6 Million

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:26:18 GMT

Biostar Pharmaceuticals has completed a private placement that raised $3.6 million in new capital. Biostar will use the proceeds to complete its new raw materials processing facility. By taking its raw material production in house, Biostar will lower costs and ensure its product quality. Biostar plans to sell excess raw materials to other pharmaceutical companies in the Shaanxi province.[More...]

Bulls Back On Track?

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:21:18 GMT

Good morning. With chants of "Dow 10K… Dow 10K" once again rising from the streets at the corner of Broad and Wall yesterday, it is easy to believe that the bulls are back on track and that we'll soon be looking at new highs for the stock market. And when reviewing the data inputs to yesterday's 204 point romp, it is also easy to don the Dow10K hat once again and join in on the celebration.[More...]

Ford's Main Problem: The UAW's Crippling Job Classifications And Work Rules

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:52:50 GMT

Ford's 2,215 page 2007 master contract with the UAW 1941 UAW-Ford contract[More...]

Your Kind of Day?

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:06:48 GMT

As a rule, I try not to read too terribly much into a "Fed Day" as there is usually a big batch of volatility that may or may not mean much of anything come the dawn of the next day. Maybe, it's just me. Or maybe there are others that find themselves inclined to simply stand aside and watch the nuttiness from the sidelines on "Fed Days." But in any event, the volatility after a Fed announcement, while fun to watch, may not be telling as to what to expect in the future.[More...]

The Dollar-Proof Portfolio

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:31:14 GMT

Don't put off this important piece of the financial-planning process.[More...]

Wall Street Ends Volatile Session Mixed, Merck (NYSE: MRK) Soars

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:15:28 GMT

US stocks finished mostly higher on Wednesday after Federal Reserve left benchmark interest rate unchanged at near zero and said that it will keep them low for an extended period.[More...]

ADP Sees 203,000 Jobs Lost

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:07:07 GMT

This morning, Automatic Data Processing (ADP), the biggest payroll processing firm, estimated that the economy lost 203,000 private sector jobs in October. That was more than the consensus estimate of 190,000 jobs lost. However, the September job loss numbers were revised to a loss of just 227,000 from the original read of 254,000. Thus the losses are coming from a higher base level, and if the revisions are included, this report was in line with consensus or perhaps a bit better.[More...]

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jim Gallagher column: Inflation's coming back _ but we don't know when

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:47:00 GMT

Nov. 8--The inflation monster is sleeping soundly, snoring away, and everyone hopes he'll never wake up.
It's for people who see a couple of trillion dollars in fiscal and monetary stimulus knocking around in the economy, amid rock-bottom interest rates, and worry that this means inflation is coming.
Worrywarts have no faith in the Federal Reserve or the administration of President Barack Obama.

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Estimating Future Dividend Growth

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT): Third Quarter Earnings Preview 2009

Wells Fargo (WFC) Kicks The Can By Transofrming Option ARM Mortgages Into Interest Only

Biostar Raises $3.6 Million

Bulls Back On Track?

Ford's Main Problem: The UAW's Crippling Job Classifications And Work Rules

Your Kind of Day?

The Dollar-Proof Portfolio

Wall Street Ends Volatile Session Mixed, Merck (NYSE: MRK) Soars

ADP Sees 203,000 Jobs Lost

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jim Gallagher column: Inflation's coming back _ but we don't know when

Owners, lenders offered a hand

Landfill methane goes to work

UPI NewsTrack Business

Wal-Mart prepares for Christmas price cuts

PRAIRIE VOICES: Ethanol -- a volatile industry: Harold Newman, 76, of Jamestown, N.D., is one of North Dakota's premier businessmen, and one of the state's pioneers in the making of ethanol. Newman spoke about ethanol with Agweek magazine reporter Mikkel Pates.

Stocks post modest gains as job losses slow

Business surfaces to maintain troubled commercial properties

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Nicklaus column: The federal bailout of banks may not be as costly as feared

UPI NewsTrack Business

Wells Fargo Named Best Consumer Internet Bank in North America by Global Finance Magazine

ConocoPhillips up 21% Since Added to Galtstock Long-Term Portfolio

Seaspan Reports Financial Results for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2009

Latest Wells Fargo Survey: Expectations for Increased Revenues Improve Small Business Owner Optimism

RidgewaterEquity.Com Free Fundamental Sector &Amp; Market Research on NCR, PNM, NFX, WMT, MS and LUK

Marlin Business Services Corp. Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results

Fitch Upgrades DPL's and DP&L's Ratings; Outlook Stable

(PINKSHEETS: AFTC) Remarks on KOGAS 340 Million Dollar Backing of DME Plant

GE Technology Selected for IGCC Project in Southern California

Corporate Office Properties Trust Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results

Form 4 OVERLOCK WILARD J JR For: Nov 04 (10K)

Form 4/A KRAFT FOODS INC For: Sep 30 Filed by: SEARER RICHARD G (10K)

Form 4 Reinsch E. James For: Nov 02 (10K)

Form 4 LUDWIG EDWARD J For: Aug 14 (10K)

Form 4 SCOTT BERTRAM L For: Oct 30 (10K)

Form 4 OVERLOCK WILARD J JR For: Oct 30 (10K)

Form 4 LARSEN MARSHALL O For: Oct 30 (10K)

Form 4 DEGRAAN EDWARD For: Oct 30 (10K)

Form 4 ANDERSON BASIL For: Oct 30 (10K)

Form 4 ZARB FRANK G For: Feb 04 (10K)