On April 8, General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) announced the acquisition of Lufkin Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:LUFK) Lufkin Industries, Inc.
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Recently, General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) announced that it would acquire Lufkin Industries, Inc.
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April 16 - News
General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) has seen somewhat of a surge in its stock price, a reaction to improving financial results and a favorable outlook. Its core financial segment...
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April 16 - News
Vanguard Wellesley Income Fund Investor Shares (MUTF:VWINX) is a balanced fund with a focus on quality income stocks.
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April 16 - News
A funny thing has happened over the last few years.
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April 16 - News
Thomas Edison's enduring legacy is that of a tireless inventor, but he also happened to be a strong businessman in his own right.
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April 15 - News
Dividend growth investing has become popular lately, and for good reason.
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April 15 - News
BlackRock focuses on low volatility dividend growers.
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April 15 - News
For those seeking the biggest, most stable stocks in the market, the Dow Jones Industrials includes the leaders of many different industries.
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April 14 - News
When megainsurance company Metlife Inc (NYSE:MET) finally closed the sale of its retail banking operations to General Electric Company (NYSE:GE)'s GE Capital this past January...
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April 11 - News
that has everything necessary on board to produce, track, record, and analyze the essential information that device creators might need in a package smaller than your pinky toenail...
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April 11 - News
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on.
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April 9 - News
Now that earnings season is finally here, investors can focus on more of the important factors: earnings, revenue, margins -- all the fun stuff.
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April 9 - News
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has been around since 1896, and its antecedents date to 1884.
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April 9 - News
If you only expect to see traditional industrial companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average , then you're way behind the times.
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April 9 - News
First-quarter earnings reports are finally here, but before the first release of the official earnings season came this afternoon, the Dow Jones Industrials managed to start ...
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April 9 - News
After spending most of the day in negative territory, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) made a late run to finish up 48 points or 0.3% as optimism about the beginning...
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April 9 - News
Related tickers: Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC), Duke Energy Corp (NYSE:DUK), Heckmann Corporation (NYSE:HEK), First Solar, Inc.
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April 9 - News
While serving as the creative lead of TBWA/Chiat Day, Ken Segall oversaw the creative direction of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)'s marketing efforts.
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April 8 - News
Take $1 out of every $3 spent on health care, throw it in the garbage can -- and pretty soon those dollars add up to a big amount.
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April 8 - News
With the passing of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010, also known in shorthand as Obamacare, lawmakers and President Obama ushered in the winds of change ...
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April 8 - News
Alcoa Inc (NYSE:AA) will provide the informal kickoff to first-quarter earnings season Monday afternoon as the first Dow Jones industrial average component to report figures ...
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April 8 - News
Recently, investors have started worrying a lot more that the stock market's rally has come too far too fast.
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April 8 - News
If you have a savings account, you know how low interest rates have gotten lately.
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April 8 - News
Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown.
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April 7 - News
It was truly an amazing first quarter for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI). The U.S.
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April 7 - News
There are a number of diversified products company in the markets; companies that make products for a variety of industries. These companies have impressively diverse revenue...
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April 7 - News
The technology industry has for years profited from helping companies operate more efficiently.
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April 7 - News
Let me be clear, I don't believe in trying to time the market, but I do believe in looking at stocks relative to their peers and assessing how attractive they are.
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April 3 - News
April 2 is notable for two important patents, both of which have contributed greatly to the fortunes of two longtime components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow Jones ...
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April 2 - News
President Carter signed the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 -- the DIDMCA -- into law on March 31, 1980.
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April 1 - News
The "Dogs of the Dow" dividend strategy is one of the simplest for beating the market.
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March 31 - News
Today was a return to record highs for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI), which again chose to ignore uncertainties in Europe to focus instead on strong economic...
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March 28 - News
In December of 2012, Morristown, New Jersey-based Honeywell International Inc.
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March 26 - News
Earnings season is just about over, with almost all companies already having reported their quarterly results.
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March 26 - News
To be sure, while the country has undoubtedly developed a reputation for unleashing threatening rhetoric, it seems to have achieved an entirely new level of vitriol over the past...
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March 26 - News
In September of 2012, General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) announced that it had sold a 7.6 percent stake in Thailand's Bank of Ayudhya (NASDAQOTH:BKAHF) for about $466 million...
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March 25 - News
Two large-cap companies are making waves with announcements that they will be returning billions of dollars in capital to their shareholders over the next several months.
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March 25 - News
United Technologies Corporation (NYSE:UTX) is a global provider of high technology products and services to the building systems and aerospace industries.
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March 25 - News
Most investors see the Dow Jones Industrial Average 2 Minute (Dow Jones Indices:.DJI) as among the safest blue-chip stocks in the entire market.
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March 25 - News
In 1973, nuclear power supplied 5% of the total electricity consumed by American homes.
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March 24 - News
When it comes to the S&P 500 , not all stocks are created equal.
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March 24 - News
The U.S. has always had a love-hate relationship with the environment.
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March 24 - News
Regardless of where they stand, management takes big risks with shareholders' money when it wades into politics.
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March 22 - News
For U.S. investors, international crises tend to be short-term events that have little long-term impact.
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March 22 - News
In late February, storied German conglomerate Siemens Aktiengesellschaft's long-standing plan to spin off its lighting division hit a major roadblock in the form of a shareholder...
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March 22 - News
France has recently been lauded for new laws set to reduce the amount of light used at night in essentially unoccupied commercial buildings.
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March 21 - News
In trying to chart your own course to invest for your retirement, it's useful to look at what major companies are doing with their pension-fund money to try to achieve the same...
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March 21 - News
Tribune Company (NASDAQOTH:TRBAA)'s announcement that it is considering a sale of its newspaper business sounds like a good plan.
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March 21 - News
Hewlett-Packard Company (HPQ) (NYSE:HPQ) has been struggling to find itself for a long time.
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March 21 - News