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Exxon Mobil Steps Up With Debt Offering and New Investments
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ollesvensson/ On Monday, U.S. oil and gas supermajor Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) revealed a $5.5 billion bond offering, breaking a 20-year debt market dry spell. The...
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Is Coca-Cola’s Executive Compensation All Wrong?
Source: Getty Images Coca-Cola’s (NYSE:KO) executive team is under fire from Wintergreen Advisers, a money management firm that operates the Wintergreen Fund (NASDAQ:WGRNX)(NASDAQ:WGRIX) and owns 2.5...
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Can Lululemon Pull a Nike on Earnings Day?
Source: Thinkstock Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ:LULU) will report earnings this Thursday, and the market apparently can’t decide which way to push the stock ahead of time. Shares closed Monday’s...
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Is Rupert Murdoch Giving His Son the Keys to His Media Empire?
Source: Thinkstock Turns out the market isn’t so sure that Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch’s son, is the right man for the job. Shares of News Corp. (NASDAQ:NWS)(NASDAQ:NWSA) closed Wednesday’s...
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Tobacco Stocks Are Breaking Out
Source: Thinkstock Shares of tobacco companies started the year off mixed. Shares in two companies in particular – Reynolds American (NYSE:RAI) and Lorillard (NYSE:LO) — have performed extremely well,...
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Alcoa Earnings Beat Estimates: ‘Our Transformation Is Accelerating’
Source: Thinkstock Alcoa (NYSE:AA) surpassed $13 for the first time since 2011 after reporting relatively strong first-quarter results. Adjusted net income came in at $98 million, or 9 cents per...
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The Big Plunge: 5 Stocks That Had a Horrible April
Investors were taken on a pretty wild ride in April. Earnings for major companies came in all over the map, causing fairly dramatic price swings not just in individual stocks but for the overall...
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Too Big to Fail: Has the Fed Finally Learned Its Lesson?
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zieak/ The Federal Reserve is on the war path against fifteen banks and financial institutions to make sure it doesn’t blow the doors off the economy again. As a...
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High Growth, Low Risk: 3 Stocks All But Immune to Market Turmoil
Investing in the stock market is often compared to gambling. This analogy became particularly popular in the wake of the 1973 publication of Burton Malkiel’s A Random Walk Down Wall Street, which...
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J.C. Penney: Trouble May Not Be Over Yet
Source: Getty Images Struggling retailer J.C. Penney (NYSE:JCP) on Thursday reported earnings that surpassed analysts’ expectations. As a result, the stock surged more than 20 percent in after-hours...
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