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  • AptarGroup Reports All-Time High Quarterly Results; Raises Dividend 22% and Increases Shares Authorized for Repurchase ... Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:19PMCRYSTAL LAKE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AptarGroup, Inc. (NYSE:ATR) today reported record quarterly results. The Board of Directors also increased the quarterly dividend and authorized the repurchase of an additional 4 million shares of common stock. Also, President and CEO, Peter Pfeiffer, announced his plans to retire at the end of the year. Second Quarter 2011 Summary Reported diluted earnings ...
  • Goldman Sachs Plans Job Cuts as Debt Trading Misses Estimate Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:11PMGoldman Sachs Group Inc., the U.S. bank that makes most of its money from trading, said it will cut about 1,000 jobs after a plunge in fixed-income revenue that was bigger than analysts estimated.
  • A Foolish View of a Magic Formula Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:45PMA quick, easy way to combine fundamental and quantitative investing.
  • Macquarie/First Trust Global Infrastructure/Utilities Dividend & Income Fund Continues Share Repurchase Program Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:34PMWHEATON, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Macquarie/First Trust Global Infrastructure/Utilities Dividend & Income Fund (NYSE: MFD) (the “Fund”) announced today that the Board of Trustees of the Fund has authorized the continuation of the Fund’s previously announced share repurchase program, which commenced on February 24, 2011. Through the share repurchase program, the Fund was originally authorized to ...
  • Bulls Misunderstand the Rackspace Business Model Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 10:28AMBy Geoff AbbottRackspace (RAX) is the self-termed "leading specialist in the hosting and cloud compu...
  • Gyrodyne (GYRO) - A Legal Thriller Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 4:35PMBy Elie Rosenberg. Gyrodyne ( GYRO ) is a special situation stock perhaps nearing the end of a multi-year court battle. Will value finally be unlocked and is it worth the risk? Read more » »
  • The European Equity Fund, Inc. and The New Germany Fund, Inc. Announce Discount Management Program Details Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 3:41PMThe European Equity Fund, Inc. (NYSE: EEA) and The New Germany Fund, Inc. (NYSE: GF) (each a "Fund" and, collectively, the "Funds") announced ...
  • Tables turn on Murdoch as scandal rocks media empire Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:21PMTo his many enemies, media mogul Rupert Murdoch is getting his comeuppance with a scandal that rivals anything his newspapers have covered.
  • Michael Mauboussin: Luck and Skill in investing Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 10:36AMBy Anh Hoang. Recently Steve Forbes just interviewed Michael Mauboussin, the professor at Columbia School and the investor, below are some key highlights: Read more » »
  • Experts offer 7 tips to adjust mutual fund portfolio Sunday, July 17, 2011 @ 10:09AMUncertain market makes this summer great time to reconsider investments.
  • Business: Jason MacGregor column: Disposition Effect and Loss Aversion Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 12:07PMTry this exercise: Take a moment and think about a stock you used to own or still own that went down
  • Nortel Pensioners Slammed Again? Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:07AMVia Pension Pulse . Michael Lewis of the Toronto Star reports, Nortel pensioners slammed with pension cuts, claw backs : Days after a patent sale generated $4.5 billion (U.S.) for creditors of insolvent Nortel Networks, its retirees are facing a huge cut in pension income, along with a clawback of benefits paid out over the past 10 months.   “This is hitting our family very hard,” said Jayne ...
  • The StockTwits Edge: Book Excerpt Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 7:19AMExcerpted with permission of the publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc.(www.wiley.com) from The StockTwits Edge edited by Howard Lindzon, Philip Pearlman, and Iyaylo Ivanhoff. Copyright (c) 2011 by Howard Lindzon, Philip Pearlman, and Iyaylo Ivanhoff. Find Trends, Ride Them, and Get Off Howard Lindzon, @howardlindzon LESS IS MORE In 1987, after ...
  • Girls’ Generation Fan Hits Jackpot Through Investing In SM Entertainment Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 8:54PMWith his die-hard appreciation with Girls’ Generation or also known as So Nyeo Shi Dae in South Korea, a middle-aged male fan invested in the entertainment company where Girls’ Generation and some of famous acts such as Super Junior,BoA,f(x) and Shinee, are signed in. In a recent post entitled, ‘Thinking [...]
  • Two Harbors Makes Public Offering Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:20PMTwo Harbors Investment Corp. recently issued a public offering of 35 million shares of its common stock.
  • Dickson Capital Management - Why Big Cap Tech Stocks Are Cheap Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 4:51PMBy CanadianValue. Technology Stocks - Is there a limit to how big they can become? 11 July 2011 Like bees to honey, investors are often very captivated by technology stocks. Many large?cap tech stocks are household names, and there is much in large?cap techland for all investors (from retail to institutional). This is true whether you are a GARPy investor (AAPL - FY 2011 P/E of 14x for 71% EPS ...
  • Buy This Free Cash Flow Star (AMSG) Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 4:46PMAs most of us already know, "cash is the lifeblood of any business". Without cash, survival is difficult - if not impossible. Again, this may sound obvious, but it is a simple
  • Why the Gold Price Continues to Hit Record Highs Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 3:29PMGold up. Stocks down. Dollar down. Bonds down. That’s not the sort of market summary that thrills very many folks, except, perhaps, about 99% of the folks who read The Daily Reckoning . But even Daily Reckoning readers like to see the stock market go up sometimes…and they usually don’t mind much if the dollar doesn’t fall.
  • Value Investing Seminar: Sebastien Lemonnier On of Tocqueville Finance on Ekornes Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 9:35PMBy Jacob Wolinsky. Sebastien Lemonnier is a European Equity Fund Manager at Tocqueville Finance, a Paris-based value house with ?1.8 billion in assets under management. The company has followed a value investing philosophy since its foundation in 1991. Read more » »
  • True blue bonds Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 6:46PMBonds: Why invest in term deposits or global bonds when you can invest in Aussie bonds and get a better return? Jeff Brunton reports.
  • Is it time for investors to come out of hibernation? Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 6:31PMInvestment: Investors remain nervous and are still heavily invested in cash, but are they doing the right thing? How serious is the threat of macro issues, and when will it be the right time to go back into the market? Dominic McCormick investigates.
  • Charter considering revised £1.4bn offer from Melrose as rivals hover Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 6:09PMCharter International, owner of the Howden engineering business in Renfrew, said yesterday it was considering an improved offer from investor Melrose that values the British i
  • Ben Graham Net-Net Strategy Delivers Extraordinary Returns Aagin Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 3:50PMBy gurufocus. In his book "The Intelligent Investor", Ben Graham, the father of value investing, found that one strategy that worked well was to buy companies that are sold at below its net current asset value. He called those bargains. Read more » »
  • 6 Ways To Improve Your Portfolio Returns Today Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 2:56PMThese historically tested methods will improve your investment results.
  • Investing in the Oracle of Omaha Falls Short Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 2:16PMI am a huge fan of Warren Buffett, who justly deserves to be known as the Oracle of Omaha. His company, Berkshire Hathaway, increased its book value by 20.3 percent annually for the past 44 years--an astounding ...
  • Tips on Maximizing the Value You Get From Your Advisors Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 2:05PMPaul Palmieri, Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising service Millennial Media just gave a really valuable talk at the International Startup Festival in Montreal titled "Investing in Your Influencers." Palmieri talked about how startups can get the most value out of their advisors and friends. Prior to founding Millennial, Palmieri was a mobile advertising and data executive at Verizon and ...
  • RIM has six months to prove co-CEOs need to be chairmen Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 1:42PMCanada’s Research in Motion held its annual shareholder meeting yesterday, in which the company tried to re-assure investors that the company is poised to regain a competitive edge in the smartphone market and on the verge of launching seven new BlackBerry smartphones. ...
  • Fairchild Semiconductor Reports Results for the Second Quarter 2011 Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 6:30AMFairchild Semiconductor , a leading global supplier of high performance power and mobile products, today announced results for the second quarter ended June 26, 2011. Fairchild reported second quarter sales of $433.2 million, up 5 percent from the prior quarter and 6 percent higher than the second quarter of 2010.
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co UK Regulatory Announcement: JPMorgan Chase Reports Second-Quarter 2011 Net Income of $5.4 Billion ... Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 6:24AMNEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) today reported second-quarter 2011 net income of $5.4 billion, compared with net income of $4.8 billion in the second quarter of 2010. Earnings per share were $1.27, compared with $1.09 in the second quarter of 2010. Jamie Dimon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented: “Our second-quarter earnings reflected solid performance ...
  • Tortoise Capital Resources Corp. Releases Fiscal 2011 Second Quarter Financial Results Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 5:34PMTortoise Capital Resources Corp. today announced that it has filed its Form 10-Q for the second quarter ended May 31, 2011.
  • Value Investing Seminar: Don Fitzgerald of Tocqueville Finance on Ekornes Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 5:20PMBy Jacob Wolinsky. Don Fitzgerald co-manages the Tocqueville Value Europe fund. Don has worked as an investment and finance professional in Europe for the past 15 years and spent the last 8 years identifying, analyzing and managing portfolios of undervalued securities in the European equity and distressed debt markets. Prior to that he spent seven years in corporate and investment banking. He ...
  • This is a Backgrounder On China Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 4:38PMAbstract: Chinese investment in the rest of the world, especially in the United States, continues to be a controversial topic.
  • Roundtable: Can You Retire on These Stocks? Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 4:20PMFool writers weigh in with their opinions on the best and worst stocks for retirement portfolios.
  • DWS Global High Income Fund, Inc. Announces Annual Meeting of Stockholders Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 4:11PMThe Board of Directors of DWS Global High Income Fund, Inc. (NYSE: LBF) , (the "Fund) announced ...
  • Why Low Beta Stocks Are Worth a Look Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 6:29PMThe recent volatility in the stock market has many investors trying to figure out how to maintain some exposure to equities, while limiting their exposure to the big ups and downs of the major equity indexes.
  • European Stocks at 52-Week Lows: BCS, CS, TI, NOK Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 6:05PMBy gurufocus. As the Euro zone debt crisis continues to unfold, many of the European stocks are making new 52-week lows. We have created a page which highlights the internationals that are at 52-week lows. In this article we would like to highlight some of the international stocks in the list. These companies are Barclays PLC ADS ( BCS ), Credit Suisse Group ( CS ), Telecom Italia SpA ( TI ...
  • CBRE Clarion Global Real Estate Income Fund (NYSE: IGR) Declares Monthly Distribution for July Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 5:27PMPHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Board of Trustees of the CBRE Clarion Global Real Estate Income Fund (NYSE: IGR) (the “Fund”), declared a monthly distribution of $0.045 per share for the month of July 2011. The following dates apply: Ex-Dividend Date Record Date Payable Date July 2011 07-20-2011 07-22-2011 07-29-2011 IGR’s current distribution rate represents an annualized yield of 6.3% based ...
  • Trader in Securities Status Difficult to Attain Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 6:30PMNet losses from the sale of investment securities are only deductible to the extent of $3,000 per ye
  • The Sprotts: Silver Poised for Power Rally Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 5:43PMThe Sprotts: Silver Poised for Power Rally Source: Karen Roche and Sally Lowder of The Gold Report   (7/11/11)
  • Seth Klarman More Than Doubles Holdings in Syneron Medical Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 5:35PMBy teddycx. As the Portfolio Manager of the investment partnership The Baupost Group, Seth Klarman has helped the company average returns of nearly 20% annually since its inception. He is a value investor with a wide array of investments, ranging from traditional value stocks to more unusual securities such as distressed debt, liquidations, and foreign equities or bonds. Klarman has a ...
  • Wall Street legend aims to strike pay dirt in Ontario Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 4:56PMSeth Klarman’s hedge fund is investing in province’s biggest potato grower with plans to add massive gravel quarry
  • 3 Stocks Stopping the Presses Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 4:38PMThese companies made big headlines -- what does it mean to you?
  • 10 Hilarious Chinese-Stock Red Flags You Need to Know Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 1:38PMWant to avoid getting taken for a ride on a Chinese-stock scam? Here are 10 key red flags to look out for.
  • Kinetic Lures LBO on Cheapest Medical Products Value: Real M&A Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 12:05PMKinetic Concepts Inc. is enticing private equity firms with the U.S. medical products industry’s cheapest valuation for what would be the biggest leveraged buyout since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
  • Revlon Shows Some Natural Investing Beauty Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 12:00PMRevlon recently surged into a new multi-year high on the heels of two consecutive strong earnings su
  • Shorting Chinese Chicken Breeder Earns Wings for GeoInvesting Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 10:59AMYuhe International Inc. (YUII) , a Chinese chicken breeder whose business model is based on quick turnaround, took only three days to acknowledge it had been bested by two short sellers in rural Pennsylvania.
  • Google enhances its image by beefing up solar program - Sun, 10 Jul 2011 PST Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 12:46PMGoogle (Nasdaq: GOOG) is looking to get a little better return on its cash – by creating a $280 million fund with which SolarCity can expand its residential leasing program. SolarCity is a full-service solar energy company providing design, financing, installation and monitoring for solar systems. Google’s money will be used to finance residential projects instead of homeowners paying for entire ...
  • India sees PE deals worth $5.8 bn in first six months of 2011 Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 1:26AMPrivate equity investments jumped to USD 5.8 billion in the first six months of 2011, driven by higher number of large-size transactions.
  • Entering O&G big league Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 7:17PMIT could prove to be a tough sell for a shell company with no operations, no assets and no track record to convince investors that they ought to plough their money to raise funds to track down and acquire assets, on which its very existence depends. That’s not all. Hibiscus Petroleum Bhd which is en route to a listing on the Main Market, will also be the country’s first special-purpose ...