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  • 4:15 PM Apple's (AAPL) effective tax rate of 14% is just a smidgin lower than IBM at 15% and Google (GOOG) at 17%. And Apple's hardly on the lowest rung: Amazon's (AMZN) rate is just 6%, Ford's (F) 3%, and Carnival's (CCL) just 1%. In trying to untangle what S&P 500 companies pay in taxes, David Leonhardt finds top executives are exceptionally shrewd at holding tax rates down. (infographic) 1 Comment
  • 1:25 PM Blackstone (BX) plans to pull a "significant portion" of the ~$550M it has invested with Steve Cohen and SAC Capital in light of the ongoing insider trading investigation, according to a letter from pension consulting firm Russell Investments reviewed by Reuters. Blackstone's redemption request came "sometime before May 15," meaning the asset management firm made the decision prior to SAC's disclosure that it would no longer cooperate unconditionally with authorities and prior to news that Cohen himself had been subpoenaed. Comment! [Financials]
  • 9:01 AM Getting crowded? After a home-run of a buy idea by Oscar Schaefer at the Roundtable in January, Barron's is back with another bullish call on Hertz (HTZ) - only now the price is 55% higher, the $10B market cap company is a favorite of the hedge fund crowd, and the winners of a recent high-profile investment competition won by pitching a buy of the auto-rental leader. Comment! [Quick Ideas]
  • 8:25 AM Reuters’ Robert Campbell thinks Keystone XL (TRP) has become a victim of political posturing and says a rival plan, ETP's Trunkline, is being held to a far lower standard thanks to an incoherent U.S. environmental policy. But if a pipeline isn’t built, crude will move by more carbon intensive methods that also are susceptible to accidents. Indeed, moving oil by road or rail is no longer seen as a stopgap until pipelines are built. 15 Comments [Energy]
  • 24 May, 6:36 PM Peoples Bancorp (PEBK) declares $0.03/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield 0.98%. For shareholders of record June 4. Payable June 14. Ex-div date May 31. (PR) Comment! [Dividends]
  • 24 May, 6:25 PM News Corp. (NWS, NWSA) expects to write down the value of its soon-to-be-independent publishing business by $1.2B-$1.4B this quarter, according to an SEC filing. The media company says "certain of its goodwill and intangible assets were potentially impaired” at the publishing business, which includes newspapers such as the NY Post and WSJ. 1 Comment [Consumer]
  • 24 May, 6:02 PM Actavis (ACT) confirms that an Appeals Court has granted an injunction to AstraZeneca (AZN) to enjoin ACT from further distribution of its generic version of Pulmicort until AZN's appeal before the Court gets resolved. ACT launched its generic version on April 1, following a ruling that AZN's patent was invalid. The following day, the Court then issued a temporary restraining order blocking ACT's generic sales to permit AstraZeneca an opportunity to seek injunctive relief with the Federal Circuit. Shares -0.3% AH. 1 Comment [Healthcare]
  • 24 May, 6:00 PM On the hour: S&P flat. 10-yr +0.02%. Euro +0.02% vs. dollar. Crude -0.44% to $93.84. Gold -0.47% to $1385.25. Comment!
  • 24 May, 5:54 PM The U.S. State Department takes the unusual step of releasing publicly the feedback it received about the controversial Keystone XL pipeline (TRP) in response to its draft environmental report. Well represented in the first batch of ~1.2M total comments are green groups like Tar Sands Action and the Sierra Club as well as advocacy groups like Americans for Tax Reform and the Institute for Energy Research. 6 Comments [Energy]
  • 24 May, 5:42 PM After-hours top gainers, as of 5:15 p.m.: SIGA +23%. FXEN +7%. LPSN +5%. QSII +4%. STRZA +3%.
    After-hours top losers: XNPT -7%. DF -6%. ASTX -4%. SPWR -3%. FNSR -2%. Comment! [On the Move]
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