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  • Bank of Deere

    By David Talley - December 27, 2011 | Tickers: DE, GE

    It should be no surprise that John Deere (NYSE: DE) has a financial services division. After all, the machines it produces are quite expensive and many customers require financing. It is an obvious business decision that Deere cut out the bank and offer financing services to their customers. However, it is extremely important to pay attention to the details of financial arms, lest they unknowingly (or knowingly) blow up the more »

  • The Least Valuable Players: 5 Underpriced Stocks for 2012

    By Robert Coleman - December 27, 2011 | Tickers: ADM, AVX, BAC, C, GLW, JPM, LLL

    While the markets may have been cruel and unforgiving for many investors since 2008, the upshot is a golden opportunity for bargain hunters and value investors alike. The “Great Recession” is technically over, but by no means does that indicate that stocks have returned to their appropriate price levels, and anyone willing to put in the time and effort can sort through the securities haystack to find an underpriced needle more »

  • Two in One Technical Analysis- Dover Corporation

    By Nikhil Shamapant - December 26, 2011 | Tickers: DOV

    Long Term Chart Patterns Series

    Brief Fundamental Analysis: I always do a brief check of fundamental ratios prior to a technical analysis-based speculation to make sure that nothing fundamentally large is misplaced in the stock and may cause the stock to move against its prior technical signals.

    Business: Dover Corporation (NYSE: DOV)

    Dover operates a global portfolio of manufacturing companies, operating in 4 business segments: Industrial Products, Engineering Systems, Fluid more »

  • Cost Basis Reporting-HII Spinoff from NOC

    By Laurie Frederiksen - December 26, 2011 | Tickers: HII, NOC

    If you purchased and sold any stock in 2011, you’re going to be seeing changes in the 1099 form you receive from your broker.   New cost basis reporting rules have begun phasing in.  Under the new rules, brokers are required to report cost basis information to the IRS. 

    When you have a sale, you get taxed on your capital gain or loss.  This is the difference between your cost more »

  • Invest Like a Woman

    By Erin McBride - December 23, 2011 | Tickers: MMM, AMZN, DPS, GOOG, PHG

    I've read in many sources that the Oracle himself, Warren Buffett, "invests like a woman." I've found more than a few books suggesting that the smartest investing techniques include investing with your heart or gut, just like a woman would. So I stopped and asked myself, as a woman, what does my gut tell me to do?

    My gut says to go invest in the companies whose products more »

  • Embraer Faces Continued Turbulence

    By Tony Daltorio - December 23, 2011 | Tickers: ERJ, GD, TXT

    The world's third largest commercial aircraft producer and one of Brazil's top companies, Embraer SA ADR (NYSE: ERJ) is one of the few Latin American companies that has been able to compete successfully on a global scale. 

    Embraer has sold more than 5,000 aircraft operating in 92 countries. Annual revenues from its commercial and private jet sales alone total roughly $4 billion. 

    The company's stock hit more »

  • How High Can UPS Count?

    By Roland Hughes - December 22, 2011 | Tickers: FDX, UPS

    Well, according to this video, one.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCwx_UBj2KI

    At this point I shouldn’t need to include the link of the FedEx (NYSE: FDX) driver throwing a computer monitor over a fence. Even if you never visit YouTube, that video has been on every news show around the world. You knew it was only a matter of time once the FedEx driver video surfaced until more »

  • Christmas Comes Early For The NFL

    By Steve Viuker - December 22, 2011 | Tickers: CBS, GE, NWSA

    Christmas came early for the sports juggernaut that is the National Football League. While much of the sports world is looking toward the hardwood for the start of the NBA season, CBS (NYSE: CBS), Fox (NASDAQ: NWS) and NBC (NYSE: GE) renewed their contracts for nine years. 

    According to published reports, the average fees from the three networks will increase by an average of 7 percent annually. Total revenue will more »

  • The Humanist

    By A-J Aronstein - December 22, 2011 | Tickers: AAPL, KO, LMT, PFE, BA

    Why "The Humanist" on a finance site?

    For one thing, books and stocks are what I know. I teach writing at the University of Chicago and did graduate work in English. But I've also been investing since I was a teenager and got a start working two summers in college on the floor of a hedge fund. The first stock I bought (in 1998, when my favorite book was more »

  • The Car That CO2 Built

    By Roland Hughes - December 21, 2011 | Tickers: CLC, EXC, GPRE, WM

    There has been a lot of talk about CO2 sequestering technology lately.

    http://sequestration.org/

    The obvious solution to factory-produced CO2 isn't trying to bury it, despite what people say. That may be required as temporary storage, but it is not a good option. Eventually it will leak, just like those salt mines will eventually leak, but we put nuclear waste there anyway. (Nuclear, the clean form of energy more »

  • Prepare For a 2012 ATSG Takeoff!

    By Tom Gibbs - December 21, 2011 | Tickers: ATSG, AYR

    “…Most of the stocks we buy have low expectations.  If the future is a little better or a lot better than the low expectations – it doesn’t have to be great – you have the chance for asymmetric returns on the upside.  And, hopefully, you don’t lose much on the ones that don’t do better than the low expectations, because you didn’t pay much for them in the more »

  • Sprint: Upgrade to Buy Over Night?

    By Thomas J Lavan III - December 21, 2011 | Tickers: AAPL, ATT, CLWR, F, S, VZ

    In October Sprint (NYSE: S) CEO Dan Hesse placed a $20 billion wager on Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone, agreeing to order over 30 million of the devices regardless of Sprint’s ability to sell them. At the time, the odds of this seemingly outlandish bet paying off were a shot in the dark. Monday’s news that AT&T (NYSE: ATT), underneath an onslaught of government opposition, would drop more »

  • Lockheed Martin Announcement Good for Everyone

    By Tim Brugger - December 20, 2011 | Tickers: GD, LMT, NOC, RTN, BA

    By now you may have heard about Japan’s announcement they’ve chosen Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter jet as their next aviation weapon of choice. With the hubbub from the U.S. government still brewing over the stealth fighter snafus, this is a major win for Lockheed (NYSE: LMT). On the political front, the contract couldn’t have come at a better time with uncertainties in North Korea and more »

  • Give Solar Time to Get Its Groove Back

    By Amanda Alix - December 19, 2011 | Tickers: CSIQ, ENER, FSLR, JASO, SPWR, TSL

    Without a doubt, 2011 was a bittersweet year for the solar industry.  Solar energy installations in the U.S. increased nearly 40% in the third quarter over Q2, adding more than 200 megawatts of solar power capacity--more than was added in all of 2009.  Large-scale projects boomed and the residential market heated up, thanks to government tax incentives.  Prices of panels began to fall, making solar even more attractive to more »

  • Operation Hero Miles

    By Roland Hughes - December 19, 2011 | Tickers: UAL

    I am a patriot. I cherish the Constitution, the Second, and the First Amendments in that order. I feel it is the duty of all patriots to instantly vote out of office any who attempt to reduce the scope or brilliance of this Holy Trinity.

    Nearly every year during the week of Independence Day I will sit and watch the entire Gettysburg multi-DVD movie. Yes, I used to watch the more »

  • Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week December II/2011

    By DividendYields - December 18, 2011 | Tickers: AGU, INGR, DFS, IR, ANDE

    Companies that generate excess cash flows are more likely to maintain and increase their dividends. Not at all, if you look at dividends, you also have look at the dividend growth. If companies have a stable business and solid financials, they can consider an adequate increase in dividend payments. Good running dividend growth stocks raise dividends every 4 quarter by around 5-10 percent but better running stocks boost dividends. Last more »

  • You Don't Have to Pick Winners

    By Patrick King - December 16, 2011 | Tickers: MMM, TSM

    If you were to look up my Foolish stock picks in CAPS, you'd find that I only have an accuracy rate of about 50%, and yet I am consistently rated at about the 85th percentile. More importantly, my real money portfolio has managed a 15% gain over the past year while the market as a whole has moved sideways.

    Part of the reason for this is that I have more »

  • On Again, Off Again: The Impact of Retail Sales Figures

    By Tim Brugger - December 16, 2011 | Tickers: COST, DFS, MA, TGT, V, WMT

    Like a seesaw, the National Retail Federation has teetered between disappointing holiday sales, so-so, and a banner season. As you may have heard, apparently it's back to “banner” this year with retail sales expected to climb as much as 3.8% vs. the 2.8% predicted a few minutes ago. Okay, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, but you get the idea. Combine the revised numbers with positive more »

  • Stock Upgrades And Downgrades From 2011/12/15

    By DividendYields - December 16, 2011 | Tickers: BPAX, BWA, CTAS, CCNE, FSLR, ITC, KIOR, LRCX, LEAP, LUFK, LAVA, NYCB, NVLS, SWKS, TMUS, TE, VPHM

    Upgrades and downgrades are positive (negative) changes in the rating of a security. An upgrade is usually triggered by a steady improvement in the fundamentals and financials of the entity that has issued the security. Downgrade ratings are vice versa. Changes in the analyst rating could hit the company’s stock price significantly. Watch out the current rating decisions. Here is a current list of recent company upgrades and downgrades more »

  • High Yields With Ex-Dividend Date Tomorrow 2011-12-15

    By DividendYields - December 13, 2011 | Tickers: ADC, NM, UIL

    Here is a current stock list of dividend shares with ex-dividend date on 12/15/2011. The average dividend-yield amounts to 3.95 percent.

    The ex-dividend date is a major date related to the payment of dividends. If you purchase a stock on its ex-dividend date or later, you will not receive the next dividend payment. Instead, the seller gets the dividend. If you purchase before the ex-dividend date, you more »