Expectations have dropped for ? (GIS) third quarter results in the month leading up to the company?s earnings announcement slated for Wednesday, March 21, 2012. The consensus analyst estimate has dropped from 60 cents a share to the current estimate of earnings of 56 cents a share. What to Expect: Over the past three months, ...

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When the Supreme Court takes up the question of the ?individual mandate??? to buy??health insurance unde the????Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (?Obamacare?) it is important that we remember that they are not considering whether the mandate is a good idea.?? They will be considering whether Congress has the power under the Constitution to make ...

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The HYG closed just outside of technically oversold territory on Thursday, and follow-through selling on Friday put the stock at levels where traders have been more inclined to buy than sell. Another option for traders is the PHB.

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up in??The Worlds Greatest DJ?s series is Swedish House Mafia, who was ranked #10 in the 'DJ Magazines Top 100' 2011. They are a house music group consisting of three extremely popular DJ?s and producers, including Axwell, Steve Angello, and Ingrosso. They officially formed in 2008 and in 2010 they released their first major single ...

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U.S. companies paid about $100 billion in cash dividends into equity mutual funds during 2011. Little of this money made it into the hands of fund investors. It was diverted to the fund industry to cover fees and expenses, and provide a healthy profit margin. This cash loss to shareholders creates a huge hole in ...

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lives in Shanghai and writes about tech investment in China for and at www.youngchinabiz.com. Since everyone else is focusing on the rapidly slowing growth in the latest quarterly results from leading Internet company Tencent (HKEx: 700), I thought I?d take a look at a less explored part of the company?s newly issued report, namely a ...

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We expect Oracle's cloud-based software offerings to generate increasing revenues in the coming years as it integrates its acquired products into its own cloud portfolio and cross markets them to existing customers.

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Apple has no plans for a stock split. CEO Tim Cook, speaking on the company?s conference call this morning to announce their plans to initiate a $2.65 a share quarterly dividend and to buyback up to $10 billion of its common stock, also said that the company has looked at but decided against splitting the ...

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lives in Shanghai and writes about tech investment in China for and at www.youngchinabiz.com. (Nasdaq: BIDU) may be China?s undisputed Internet search leader, but new reports circulating about an abrupt collapse of talks over a new video partnership illustrate just how dependent this company is on less-than-ethical business practices like piracy and stealth advertising for ...

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Apple this morning gave what amounts to a partial answer on how it will spend its large cash pile. With the new $2.65 a share quarterly dividend asnd a $10 billion three-year stock repurchase plan, the company will be giving back about $45 billion to shareholders over the next three years. But all of that ...

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