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Ready or Not, Here Comes Earnings Season for the Big Banks
Filed under: Investing Can you hear that? It's the sound of the market drawing its collective breath and holding it in advance of the year's first earnings season. The festivities kick off after market...
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Why Macy's, Nordion, and Acuity Brands Soared Today
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
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Today's 3 Worst Stocks in the S&P 500
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
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Disney Continues to Come Up Big at the Box Office
Filed under: Investing Frozen's strong run at the box office has lasted longer than anyone could have imagined. Last weekend, a month after it opened, the film was tops at the domestic box office,...
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Earnings Season Preview: What to Watch in Retail
Filed under: Investing Macy's plans to lay off 2,500 employees and close five stores in an effort to improve efficiency -- saving the company $100 million a year. Investors loved the news, but is it...
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Ford, Bed Bath & Beyond, Angie's List, and Buffalo Wild Wings Are Making...
Filed under: Investing Ford ups their dividend and stays the course for their aggressive strategy, promising results for patient investors. Bed Bath & Beyond is napping with a bed-in-a-bag, while...
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2 Stocks to Watch: Alcoa and Gap
Filed under: Investing Alcoa may not have a place in the Dow Industrials anymore, but it still gets to kick off earnings season. Meanwhile, Gap releases its sales figures for December, providing an...
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Starbucks, McDonald's or Dunkin' Donuts: Which Caters More to the...
Filed under: Investing Starbucks and McDonald's are two immensely popular franchises that have made recent strides toward catering to the health-conscious consumer. This includes menus offering fewer...
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Why Target Received a Frigid Response North of the Border and What It Can...
Filed under: Investing Target has had to deal with a lot of negative news of late, the most obvious being the data breach. However, while the data breach is likely to negatively impact Target for the...
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Pfizer Inc.: Big Pharma Checkup for 2014
Filed under: Investing Big pharmaceutical companies face a reacceleration of the patent cliff in 2014. In this series of articles, I discuss how some of the biggest drug manufacturers plan to navigate...
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Are Merck & Co., Inc. and Novartis AG (ADR) a Match Made in Health Care...
Filed under: Investing Consolidation's been the name of the game around big pharma recently. Pfizer's made a name spinning off or selling its non-core businesses, selling its infant formula unit for...
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Will Cardiac Device Stocks Have a Pulse in 2014?
Filed under: Investing Health care stocks exploded in 2013, but a few leading medical device stocks in particular hit the jackpot in the market's rally. Cardiac device leader Boston Scientific saw its...
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Why Bed Bath & Beyond Got Slammed
Filed under: Investing In general, home-furnishing retailers have had a rather good run over the last year, as increased demand for new homes has naturally increased demand for things to put in them....
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Social Security Disability: What You Need to Know
Filed under: Investing Many people think that Social Security is just a retirement program. But with millions of recipients getting disability payments from Social Security, it's important to know what...
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Wells Fargo Deserves More Love Than Bank of America and JPMorgan -- Here's Why
Filed under: Investing Despite its financial strength and post-crisis performance, Wells Fargo is often overshadowed by its more troubled peers. Doesn't the megabank deserved more recognition from...
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SeaWorld's "Blackfish" Controversy Performed Another Trick
Filed under: Investing Aquatic amusement park company SeaWorld was back in hot water last week after a business journal caught the company inflating the results of an online poll. The poll question...
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Fool's Gold Report: Bad Jobs Report Sends Metals Soaring
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over daily movements, we do like to keep an eye on market changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
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Why Chelsea Therapeutics International Ltd. Shares Were Creamed
Filed under: Investing Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing...
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MannKind's Pit Stop on the Road to Approval
Filed under: Investing MannKind will take a pit stop on the long road to approval of its inhaled insulin Afrezza when the drug is reviewed by a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on April...
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Trick Question: What Retailer Sells the Most Clothes to Men? Prepare to be...
Filed under: Investing If you're male, then you probably don't enjoy shopping for clothes. The vast majority of males don't find this experience enjoyable. We'd rather be watching or playing sports,...
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