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Is Family Dollar Too Expensive?
Filed under: Investing Discount retailer Family Dollar Stores seems to be imploding. The Matthews, N.C.-based discounter was already lagging rivals Dollar General , Dollar Tree, and Wal-Mart Stores ,...
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Will Intel Finally Crack Smartphones in 2014?
Filed under: Investing Get a glimpse of what's on the tech horizon with Foolish reports from the field at the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show. Companies ranging from start-ups to Fortune...
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Will a European Recovery Boost Ford in 2014?
Filed under: Investing Follow @jrosevear New models like the EcoSport SUV will help Ford gain ground in Europe this year. But the pressure to cut prices is still fierce, and that will make profits hard...
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Your Social Security Benefit in 4 Easy Slides
Filed under: Investing Millions of people rely on Social Security for their well-being in retirement. But few people understand how their Social Security benefit is actually calculated. In the...
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Fools at CES: What's All the Rage Over Curved Phones?
Filed under: Investing The Fool heads out to Vegas to check out the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show. With more than 3,200 exhibitors, including 88% of the top retailers in consumer...
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The Next Phase of the Mobile Revolution
Filed under: Investing Can't make it to the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show? Never fear: The Fool is there to check out the tech and report back on who's there and what's new. With...
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Wal-Mart, Amazon, or Macy's: A Glimpse at Holiday Results Reveals 1 Big Winner
Filed under: Investing The National Retail Federation expects holiday sales to increase 3.9% year-over-year. We won't know the results until mid-January. However, we can form an educated guess about...
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Merck & Co., Inc. Cutting Its Losses, While Others Charge Toward RNAi
Filed under: Investing Sometimes success in business requires the ability to make decisions and zig while others are zagging. It is also important to know when to stop throwing good money after bad and...
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AbbVie Inc. Invests in Precision-Bombing Cancer Therapies
Filed under: Investing Humira is really raking it in for AbbVie , but the good times will likely take a turn for the worse when the biologic goes off patent in a few years. For reasons I explained...
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3 Key Pancreatic Cancer Drugs to Know for 2014
Filed under: Investing Follow @leokornsun The rate of pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest types of cancer, has risen steadily over the past decade -- the American Cancer Society estimates that more...
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Are Fortunes Turning for Intuitive Surgical?
Filed under: Investing Last year was certainly a forgettable one for investors in Intuitive Surgical , the manufacturer of the daVinci Robotic Surgical System, seen below. Source: Intuitive Surgical....
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1 Year After the Spin-Off, Abbott Laboratories Looks Like a Winner
Filed under: Investing In a bid to boost shareholder value Abbott Laboratories split itself in half a year ago. The company packaged its U.S. drug portfolio and pipeline into AbbVie , leaving it with...
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New Changes to FHA Reverse Mortgage Reflect Trends Toward More Secure Lending
Filed under: Investing Regulators are putting new restrictions in place for reverse mortgages to make sure homeowners who want to cash out equity in a property can still pay the basic escrow costs of...
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Is the Era of McDonald's Dominance Over?
Filed under: Investing Throughout 2013, McDonald's global quarterly same-store sales comparisons eased as the year progressed, falling from 7.3% in the first quarter 2012 to 0.1% in the fourth quarter....
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Ford Boosts Dividend While Chevron Weakens on Production Concerns
Filed under: Investing In May, I announced my intention to create a portfolio that embodied life's basic needs. To that end, over a period of 10 weeks, I detailed 10 diverse companies that I think will...
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SodaStream's 25% Drop Might Be The Opportunity You've Been Waiting For
Filed under: Investing On Monday, Jan. 13, 2014 SodaStream International issued guidance for fiscal year 2013 that was dramatically below both their previous guidance and Wall Street analyst estimates....
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Fool's Gold Report: Plunging Stocks Send Gold, Silver Higher Again
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 Juniper Networks, Inc. Shares Jumped
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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Dragon Is Here to Stay, But It Won't Save Hewlett-Packard
Filed under: Investing Intel and Nuance recently announced that they will work together to hard-wire voice-recognition capabilities into new Ultrabooks and notebooks powered by Core or Atom...
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Obamacare More Adverse Than Anticipated
Filed under: Investing The Obama Administration just released some hotly anticipated Affordable Care Act data. Like all things Obamacare, the facts can easily be twisted by both the law's supporters...
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