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The price is right ... or is it? Pricing IPOs is tricky
Apr 1, 2015
Today’s big IPO — the domain-registration firm GoDaddy — shot up 30 percent in price.
How hostile takeovers work
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Paddy Hirsch
Mar 10, 2015
Hostile takeovers are all about applying extreme force in the form of cash.
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Big Oil cuts back, but not on dividends
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Stan Alcorn
Feb 2, 2015
ExxonMobil profits are down 21 percent, so company curtails jobs and investments.
Momentum stocks slowed down in March
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Noel King
Mar 28, 2014
Stocks for trendy companies slowed down significantly in March
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Is too much financial news affecting your health?
Jan 16, 2014
New research finds a strong link between daily stock returns and hospital admissions.
Will the big profits of 2013 continue this year?
Jan 3, 2014
Leigh Gallagher, of Fortune Magazine, and Felix Salmon, of Reuters, say that last year's profits could mean good news for the economy in 2014.
Indonesia markets tumble on Fed fears
Aug 20, 2013
Asian markets are down, and Indonesia is getting the worst of it.
For public good, not for profit.
Breaking away from the stock market masses
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Allan Sloan
Jul 3, 2013
In the years climbing out of the great recession, regular investors were leary of buying stock, thrice burned, enduringly shy. But in the last six months, as the S&P 500 index has gone up 13 percent, the masses are back to buying.
May markets: What goes up must come down?
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Juli Niemann
May 28, 2013
Juli Niemann, analyst at Smith Moore & Company, tells us why she hopes the stock market goes down this week.
Apple to respond to lawsuit over dividends
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Molly Wood
Feb 13, 2013
Apple is to respond to a lawsuit claiming it should distribute more cash to shareholders. CEO Tim Cook calls the suit a “silly sideshow.”