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Tesla Takes Dealer Fight to North Carolina
By Chris Kardish RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Tesla Motors is fighting a bill in North Carolina that would effectively ban the company from selling its electric cars in the state, pitting it against auto dealers who say the car maker has an unfair advantage selling directly to consumers online. It's the latest such battle...
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Protesters March Against Monsanto in More Than 250 Cities
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Marches and rallies against seed giant Monsanto were held across the U.S. and in dozens of other countries Saturday. "March Against Monsanto" protesters said they wanted to call attention to the dangers posed by genetically modified food and the food giants that produce it. Marches were planned...
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Yahoo!, Pay-TV Operators Reported to Be Among Hulu Bidders
By Ryan Nakashima LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Online video site Hulu is up for sale again, with Yahoo! and pay TV operators DirecTV and Time Warner Cable among the seven bidders, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The person wasn't authorized to speak publicly and spoke Friday on the condition of...
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Facebook Posts and Tweets That Can Get You Fired
By Donna Ballman In a recent ruling, the National Labor Relations Board said an employer broke the law when it dismissed an employee who criticized it on Facebook and in an email, and who encouraged employees to unionize. The NLRB ordered the employer to reinstate the employee to his old job with back pay. The...
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Newest Fed Speak Suggests Web ETFs
NEW YORK (ETF Expert) -- During Alan Greenspan's tenure at the helm of the Federal Reserve (1987-2006), the investment community created a phrase to capture the former chairman's wordiness. "Fed Speak" aptly described the long-winded ambiguity in his statements. In fact, it is likely that Greenspan was intentionally...
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3 Reasons to Like the New Cambria ETF
NEW YORK (ETF Expert) -- Long-time readers and listeners know that I am an active manager of passive index ETFs. I favor exchange-traded index vehicles because the diversification comes with low expenses, exceptional tax-efficiency and intraday liquidity. The media have regularly inquired why I rarely endorse the...
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Fannie and Freddie Ride Again: Financial Winners
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were again huge winners on Friday. Shares of Fannie Mae were up 41% to close at $2.97, while Freddie Mac was also up 41% to close at $2.81, after Ralph Nader in an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal said the two companies' common shareholders should fight...
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Quick Take: The Gold Trade, May 24
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- TheStreet's Jill Malandrino was with Jim Wyckoff of Kitco.com to talk about gold and some of its key technical levels and fundamentals, going forward. "The take-away this week is that the bulls have shown resilience," Wyckoff says. To him, it would appear that a bottom is in -- or close to...
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Small Businesses Need Disaster Recovery Plans
NEW YORK (TheStreet) - Whether it's a tornado, a hurricane or the toilet exploding, small businesses should always have disaster recovery plans in place. Natural disasters are here to stay and last week's devastating tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla. killing two dozen people and injuring hundreds, is a prime...
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4 Big Stocks Ripe for a Sharp Pullback
NEW YORK (Stockpickr) --aMarket strategists talk about two kinds of stock market environments: "risk-on" and "risk-off." In a risk-off market, investors are fearful and favor conservative safe stocks. Since this past Labor Day, though, we've been in a "risk-on" market, and some of the most widely reviled (and...
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Must-Read Book List for Options Traders
I have always loved to read. I read every day and night and have done since I was a child. My mother was an avid reader. I write "was" because she has lost her ability to read at age 88. Today she listens to books on CDs, as her desire to know and learn is still going strong. That desire is the same desire any...
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Fees Are Devouring Your 401(k)s
By Walid L. Petiri NEW YORK (AdviceIQ) -- Saving money in 401(k)s comes with a few strings attached -- fees. The fees in retirement accounts are probably the biggest obstacles to saving successfully for retirement, and many of these fees are undetectable to the untrained eye. The good news is that new regulations...
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5 Stocks Soaring on Unusual Volume
MADISON, Wis. (Stockpickr) -- Professional traders running mutual funds and hedge funds don't just look at a stock's price moves; they also track big changes in volume activity. Often when above-average volume moves into an equity, it precedes a large spike in volatility. Major moves in volume can signal unusual...
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TheDeal: Dish's Softbank Scare Tactics Hollow, Say Feds
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- National security arguments by Dish Network to scare Sprint Nextel shareholders away from Softbank Corp.'s rival offer aren't valid, say Washington attorneys monitoring the government's investigation of possible telecommunication acquisitions by foreign buyers. Dish earlier this week, showed...
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Treasury Note Volatility Index
The CBOE has started disseminating values for a new volatility index, the CBOE/CBOT 10-year U.S. Treasury Note Volatility Index (VXTNY). I explain the basic features of the index in the video here, and note some differences with the Merrill Option Volatility Estimate index (MOVE) and the implied volatility in...
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5 Dividend Stocks Getting Ready to Hike Payouts
BALTIMORE (Stockpickr) -- If you don't own dividend stocks right now, you're doing something wrong. Even though most investors have been watching capital gains rack up in the S&P 500 with mouths agape, the fact is that dividend-paying stocks have gone further faster in this quality-driven stock rally. And as...
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Ralph Nader, Wounded Shareholder of Fannie Mae Freddie Mac
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Famous consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader has renewed his efforts on behalf of common shareholders of bailed out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac . In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Nader argues that the government treated shareholders of the government...
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TheDeal: Duke Energy Joins With Alinda for Fiber Offering, Sources Say
NEW YORK (TheDeal) -- Duke Energyand Alinda Capital Partners LLC are bringing the power company's telecom fiber unit known as DukeNet Communications LLC to market, sources said. The Charlotte, N.C.-based energy company and the Greenwich, Conn., private equity firm have retained RBC Capital Markets LLC to shop the...
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Cramer: Looks Like We're Holding Our Own
Editor's Note: This article was originally published at 9:15 a.m. EDT on Real Money on May 24. To see Jim Cramer's latest commentary as it's published, sign up for a free trial of Real Money. NEW YORK (Real Money) -- If you ask me, we could do worse than 2% to 2.5% growth. That's the level of activity that Union...
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TheDeal: Loeb Treads Close to the SEC's Line
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Did activist investor Dan Loeb circumvent the Securities and Exchange Commission last week to make an even bigger splash in The New York Times?It might appear that way considering news of his 6.5% stake in Sony -- not to mention his hand-delivered letter to same calling for a separate public...
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How Bill Gross Topped the S&P 500
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- For decades, Bill Gross has been hailed as an outstanding bond manager. His Pimco Total Return became the largest mutual fund by consistently topping the Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate bond benchmark. But Gross should also be recognized for another feat: operating stock funds that have...
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One of the Big Four Defense Stocks Is Priced to Buy
The Big Four defense stocks have been riding high lately, but one of them looks particularly attractive right now. Click to view a price quote on BA. Click to research the Aerospace/Defense industry.
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Biotech Stock Mailbag: Amarin, MannKind, Palatin
Biotech columnist Adam Feuerstein answers readers' questions about health-care companies. Click to view a price quote on MNKD. Click to research the Drugs industry.
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Gundlach: 'We Own Apple' (Update 1)
DoubleLine's Jeffrey Gundlach says in an exclusive interview that his portfolio owns Apple, and the stock is priced for no new products. Click to view a price quote on AAPL. Click to research the Consumer Durables industry.
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4 Western Bank Stock Picks From Sterne Agee
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- "With investors becoming more hesitant about an extended bank stock market, we see less value than earlier in the year." Sterne Agee analyst Brett Rabatin's above comment in a note to clients on Thursday sums up the changing landscape for investors looking for bargain bank stock picks. Over...
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Quick Take: Internet Start-Ups Have Cash
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- TheStreet's Debra Borchardt was in the Big Apple reporting on Internet Week New York. While she interacted with the companies' leaders, she began to noticed that Internet start-ups are flush with cash. "Internet start-ups are having no trouble raising capital," she says. "It seems there is...
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Donald Trump Talks Bargains, Bubbles and Bottoms
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Commercial real estate has turned into a hot asset class and many fear that the market could be forming a bubble. The word "bubble" has broader implications than you may think. As I recently wrote, the less speculative investments have a margin of safety; the larger the bubble, the greater...
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Millennials Won't Be Debt Free Until They Die
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- How bad have things gotten for millennials? Their financial situation is so grim that they may never get completely out of debt -- in their entire lives. That's the conclusion of a study from Ohio State University. ... Click to view a price quote on WFC. Click to research the Banking industry.
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Procter & Gamble Replaces CEO Bob McDonald: Ahead of the Ticker
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Procter & Gamble announced it is replacing Chairman and CEO Bob McDonald with former chief A.G. Lafley. The consumer products company announced that McDonald is leaving the company, effective immediately. The move comes after activist hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has continued to...
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A Good Stock Is 'Deere' Today
NEW YORK (F.A.S.T. Graphs) -- Ever since blacksmith John Deere invented the first commercially successful steel plow in 1837, Deere has helped farmers feed America. Today, true to its legacy, Deere continues to help farmers feed people, but now does it throughout the world. In addition to the U.S. and Canada, Deere...
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