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By Mike Scully: Price, as they say, is determined on the margins. This is especially true for inelastic goods. If 100 Tickle Me Elmo dolls exist in Walmart on Christmas eve, and 100 people absolutely need to have them, you don’t have a problem. The price will be some reasonable markup on the cost of [...]

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By James Peters: We are all painfully aware of the current low interest rate environment. We are seeing drastic intervention by The Federal Reserve in order to stimulate the economy. This intervention is causing wide divergence amongst classes of fixed income securities. The Fed may control short term interest rates, but it is investors who [...]

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Larry Swedroe is principal and director of research for both Buckingham Asset Management, LLC, a Registered Investment Advisor firm in St. Louis, Mo, and BAM Advisor Services , LLC, a service provider to investment advisors across the country, most of whom are affiliated with CPA firms. BAM Advisor Services currently has 130 participating firms. Buckingham [...]

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By Colin Lea: General Dynamics (GD) CEO Jay Johnson Wednesday discussed the company’s earnings on its Q4 2011 Results. Company sales were up 6% from last year’s fourth quarter, net earnings from continuing operations for the quarter were $1.68 per fully diluted share, and $6.94 for the full year result, an increase of 2% over [...]

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By Ploutos: With SPY recently surpassing the $100bn asset threshold, it is time to re-visit an over-looked counterpart to the capitalization weighted SPY: equal weighted RSP. RSP consists of the same 500 stocks as the S&P 500 index, but instead of weighting the holdings by their market capitalization, it weights each holding equally. Instead of [...]

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Big Buys In Share Buybacks (PKW, TTFS, AMGN, AZN, MSFT)

Posted on January 27, 2012

Record corporate profits and super low interest rates are resulting in a shrinking market environment and a rise in share buybacks. Continue Reading

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Range Resources Turns In Solid 2011 (RRC, CLR, BBG, CHK)

Posted on January 27, 2012

Range Resources grew production and proved reserves at double-digit rates in 2011 through the development of the Marcellus Shale and other properties. Continue Reading

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