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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...]

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...]

Wall Street Surges On Strong Economic Data, Boeing (NYSE: BA) Rallies

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:29:19 GMT

US stocks rallied on Thursday as upbeat economic data and better-than-expected revenue forecast from Cisco bolstered investor confidence.[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...]

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...]

Dividend Stocks: A Disciplined Approach

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:27:07 GMT

Those that have read this space for any period of time are well aware of my enthusiasm for using dividend growth stocks as a vehicle for building long-term wealth and income.[More...]

Pre-Market: Stocks Headed Higher Ahead Of Fed Release

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:15:00 GMT

Stock futures have put up solid gains throughout pre-market trading and modestly extended their move in the wake of the ADP private sector employment report. It showed a slower rate of job losses and lifts some hope for a similar result in Friday's Labor Dept. release.[More...]

Big Oil's lean look fuels area jobs fear: If cuts remain permanent, glory days may be over

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:46:00 GMT

Nov. 8--Houston's energy economy has clearly felt the sting of an unprecedented drop in crude and natural gas prices, with more than 18,000 jobs lost in past months.
But recent downsizing moves by Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips and other oil and gas companies appear to go beyond the typical bottom-of-the-cycle belt tightening.
"The oil and gas industry in the Houston area has probably seen its peak in terms of, if you want to call it, its glory years," Allen Brooks, managing director at Parks Paton Hoepfl and Brown, a Houston investment bank that invests in the energy sector.

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Estimating Future Dividend Growth

Biostar Raises $3.6 Million

Bulls Back On Track?

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

Wall Street Surges On Strong Economic Data, Boeing (NYSE: BA) Rallies

Your Kind of Day?

The Dollar-Proof Portfolio

ADP Sees 203,000 Jobs Lost

Dividend Stocks: A Disciplined Approach

Pre-Market: Stocks Headed Higher Ahead Of Fed Release

Big Oil's lean look fuels area jobs fear: If cuts remain permanent, glory days may be over

Exxon-Shell awarded Iraqi oil deal

Productivity gains may be bad news for job seekers

Productivity gains may be bad news for job seekers

Spinal Modulation secures $27.4 million in series C financing

New jobless claims drop to 512K, lowest since Jan.

Exxon-Shell consortium wins West Qurna 1 deal

Ahead of the Bell: Jobless claims

Exxon-Shell consortium wins West Qurna 1 deal

ISM's service sector index grows again in October

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

Exxon Mobil Corporation Announces Estimated Third Quarter 2009 Results

Exxon Mobil Corporation Declares Fourth Quarter Dividend

PicksThatMove.Com Announces Investment Opinion on XOM, QCOM, TKO, TIO, GWG

DJO Incorporated Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter 2009

Sbm Offshore - Aseng Contract Awarded - Fpso Falcon Redelivered

Q-Cells Selects Camstar for New Malaysian Mega-Factory and Upgrade of German Production Lines

Greenberg Glusker's Robert Chapman Secures $105M Damage Award in Exxon Groundwater Contamination Trial

Former President Rejoins National Wind Solutions

EGPI Firecreek, Inc. Receives Term Sheet for Up to Four Million Dollars in Accounts Receivable Financing; Financing Represents Finalization of Contingencies for Southern Atlantic Traffic Corporation Acquisition

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