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JNJ: Don't Get Fooled by Dividend Plays

Only stock holders can receive dividend payments from the company.....I've never heard of option holders receiving dividend payments.

Can a Stock Market Meltdown Happen from Here?

The point of maximum pessimism has passed.
So many people are caught off-side now wishing and praying for a pullback that the market simply will not oblige them.
The maximum pain will be for the market to continue its rise.
Consider this, if a stock falls from 50 to 5 and then rises to 7.50, everyone goes on and on about the masssive 50% increase off the bottom...it just has to pull back after such a massive 50% increase.
Well, no it doesn't.
Don't let the mathetatics of percentages fool you.

Philip Morris: Not Just Blowing Smoke

Excellent balanced article discussing both the benefits and risks of the stock.

JNJ Still Solid - Buffett or No Buffett

>>We think that people will still maintain their baby powder, band aids and shampoos

Just remember that the consumer business is only 25% of JNJ's business.
They have a 40% exposure to pharmaceuticals which is a business like PFE, MRK, etc, etc which comes with baggage like patent expirations and class action lawsuits.

Cigarettes: Business Is Still Smoking

Why is PMI safe from lawsuits?
Don't they have lawyers in other countries too?
I think there is much litigiation and lawsuits in the future for PMI.
Why would there only be tobacco lawsuits in one country in the world?

AFLAC's Hybrid Securities Are a Cause for Concern

In the worst case scenario for AFL, they nationalize the institutions and the British government will stand behind the troubled hybrid securities.

Why Did the Swedes Nationalize in Response to Banking Crisis?

This was a great article that must've taken a long time to research.
Thanks for summarizing the Swedish events.

Clorox: Ex-Dividend Opportunity?

I don't get the point of this exercise.
There is no free lunch or free money sitting on the floor to be picked up by retail investors on the stock exchanges.
If you capture the dividend, then when you sell the stock later, it will be lower by the amount of the dividend.
You gain nothing except the privilege of paying two comissions.

Reasons for the Enduring Success of McDonald's

If you go to MCD for the "experiential factor", then I think you need to get out more. There is nothing exciting about eating at the average MCD restaurant.

The Fear Bubble: Treasuries and Gold

Geez, reading these comments, why do gold bugs take a contrary opinion so personally?

Six Smoking Stocks

Fresh lawauits coming......just approved today....there is just a culture of lawsuits that seems to never go away from these stocks.....

>>> tobacco shares are down after the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4, saying a federal labeling law doesn’t shield cigarette makers from suits accusing them of deceiving consumers by describing cigarettes as “light” or “low tar”.

Starbucks Still Brewing Growth

That sure seems hard to believe.

Here is a quote from SBUX CFO:
"the company will not meet estimates for its 1st quarter of fiscal 2009 earnings results (ending December), as same-store sales have declined 9% since the credit crisis his the U.S. economy hard this quarter"

IBM Drops Two Bombs on Microsoft

>>And now again in the corporate market, IBM is changing the rules of the game by placing all the horsepower on servers that deliver virtualized Ubuntu to corporate deskops.

Ha Ha, sounds like the old mainframe-centric model and TSO terminals.
The more things change, the more they remain the same.

Ritchie Bros. Sees Inconsistent Trading in Canada and New York

What happened on the TSX on Friday at the close was very unusual.
A lot of stocks really jumped unbelievably...at or maybe after the close?
I focus on the banks mainly and it was seen there as well.
For example, look at TD which supposedly closed at 46$ on the TSX Friday.
Yet when I look at a 1-day minute-by-minute chart for Friday, TD does not trade at 46$ ever.....looks like the highest was 44.50.
This is true on bigcharts.com and also on the TSX own website tsx.com charts.
Similar for the other banks, RY, BNS, BMO etc.......anyone shed light on this.........when did those 'high water' trades take place and why are they not seen on the intra-day charts??
What a rigged game.

Last Thursday Was the Bottom - It's Time to Get Back in

Feels like a dead cat bounce.
Commercial Real Estate problems just beginning to surface........