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Dividend.com Sunday Edition – Suze Orman Helps Beat the Dividend Drum

Investors will certainly be bracing for another week of ups and downs as the Middle East tensions continue to impact oil prices, which is already being passed on...

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Gone A.W.O.L. – lite blogging

I will find myself in England, Switzerland and Slovenia over the next week, catching up on a few existing relationships and exploring a number of new ones. Blog...

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Dividend.com Sunday Edition – Taking Full Advantage of Retirement Accounts

It’s certainly nice to get an extra day off from the markets as we look forward to a weekday of catching up tomorrow. This is a great time for investors to...

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Market Wrap-Up for Feb.17 (WTW, DPS, CLF, WMB, KO, LO, SJM, more)

It was an overall steady day for the markets, along with a decent number of dividend payouts coming over the wires. Earnings boosted several dividend names, but...

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Royal Gold (RGLD): A Net Asset Value Buy

Filed under: International Markets , Newsletters , Mexico , Commodities , Stocks to Buy “Royal Gold ( RGLD ), a gold royalty operation, is progressing well,...

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Corn Surges on Short Supply

Corn Surges on Short Supply

Filed under: International Markets , China , Brazil , Market Matters , Economic Data , Commodities , Agriculture March corn futures jumped 24.25 cents a bushel...

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Market Wrap-Up for Feb.8 (MCD, CL, AET, CLX, AVP, more)

The second interest rate hike in China in less than a month is being digested by Wall Street right now with a ho-hum reaction this morning. At some point the market...

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January Employment Situation Preview: Signal to Noise Ratio is Poor!

Everyone realizes that employment is a paramount consideration in evaluating the economic recovery. With jobs, we try to squeeze information out of each data point....

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The WSJ’s Most Controversial Article… Ever

The WSJ’s Most Controversial Article… Ever

On January 9th, The Wall Street Journal ran an article that would become the most viewed, commented-on editorial in the publication’s history. The article...

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Market Wrap-Up for Jan.24 (MCD, RSH, HAL, CLF, JCP, more)

Let me just start by saying it was a tough night trying to get to sleep after watching the Jets nearly make it all the way back from the hole they put themselves...

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Fear the Reaper

Fear the Reaper

It’s been a hell of a run. The economy is back on track. A new survey from the National Association for Business Economics suggested that jobs were coming:...

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Market Wrap-Up for Jan.19 (IBM, GS, STT, MOS, NTRS, POT, more)

I just got the results from my recent blood work and my cholesterol came back at 207. It is about the same it was three years ago, but I need to dedicate a bit...

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