"Exxon Mobil spent more money in 2005 buying back stock than it did on capital spending, exploration and research and...
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On Wednesday, we noted that the consumer had become increasingly leveraged. Yesterday, we looked at the relationship between consumer...
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Yesterday (via Doug Kass), I noted that the Consumer had grown increasingly levered. Why is this so important? Because of the...
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This is the article that the Greenspan quote came from that popped the market today; I don’t know how accurate it is (holographic...
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If risk-free returns on CDs have been returning performance equivalent to risk-laden returns on S&P500, the question some investors...
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I was just clicking around on WSJ On Line, when I came across a great new page of resources:Markets Data Index. Tons of good stuff,...
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Nice pair of charts from Northern Trust that show even as sales slow down: Prices still remain relatively robust: That may seem counter...
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The complacent and overly optimistic received a rude wake up call last week. A wide swath of poor earnings surprised the market, while...
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Albert Einstein called compound interest is "the greatest mathematical discovery of all time." Source:it is what it is
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There’s kind of an odd article in today’s NYT that I wanted to look at: The column "Fundamentally" by Paul Lim...
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