Leggett & Platt Dividend Chart by YCharts We've all reached for a dinner check and then, bringing the total into view, felt a sour stirring in our stomach. Generosity can be painful, and the devoted dividend payers at Leggett & Platt (LEG) are surely wincing these days, after greatly boosting the company's dividend in 2007 ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 21:56

Kraft is splitting into two different companies: fine. Kraft is renaming the corporate division of the spinoff to reduce confusion: fine. Kraft had to include a phonetic spelling of its new brand name in the launch release: major red flag. Kraft has decided to rename its global snacks company "Mondelez," which is "a newly coined ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 21:56

By Laurie Werner ? You are surprised by how quiet an elephant is when it wants to be. Here they are padding near silently through the open savanna of South Africa?s Kapama Reserve, past giraffes and buffalo and rhinos who are so used to having elephants around that they don?t even look up. And sitting ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 23:06

Associated Banc (ASBC) was downgraded today by Morgan Stanley (MS) from equal weight to underweight [...]

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 22:27

A recently released study entitled "Small , Credit Access, and a Lingering Recession" by Denny Dennis of the National Federation of Independent (NFIB) provides interesting data on how the share of small businesses that have bank loans varies by company size. The figure below shows the fraction of small businesses with bank loans for companies ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 22:27

Associated Banc (ASBC) was downgraded today by Morgan Stanley (MS) from equal weight to underweight as the firm believes the stock is fairly valued at current levels. A $13 price target was issued. Shares are lower by about four percent. Baker Hughes (BHI) today had its estimates and price target reduced to $54 with a ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 22:27

Several copper stocks continue to be surrounded by relatively optimistic sentiment -- indicating that additional weakness could be in store, from a contrarian perspective.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 22:27

Do you think that is the most sophisticated marketer in the world??? Or ??? They're not.?? Entertainment marketers are doing the best brand building in the world right now.?? The campaign for The Hunger takes this to a new level. This is a big paradigm shift from the nineties when entertainment marketing was sometimes an ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 22:25

Exxon Mobil (XOM) was upgraded today by JP Morgan (JPM) from underweight to neutral with a $92 price [...]

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 23:25

The congressman proves with hard, relatively specific numbers in his budget proposal that he can't get there from here.

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 23:25