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Corning Can Leverage Itself Into A Modern Industrial Growth Story
By Paul Nouri:
Corning (GLW) is no stranger to reinventing itself. Founded in 1851, since its beginning, the company has been at the forefront of the most innovative and efficient techniques in the mass production of glass.
In 1879, Thomas Edison asked Corning to produce bulbs for his invention, the incandescent light. After World War II, the company began producing the glass bulbs for televisions on a mass scale, making them affordable for families across America. At around this time, Corning formed a venture with Dow Chemical (DOW) to start Dow Corning, a company focused on the production of silicone which to this day produces approximately $ 5 billion in annual revenue.
In 1957, the company expanded its focus into kitchen plates and started the Corning Ware brand, known for its durability. In what would eventually lead to the company’s market value surpassing $ 100 billion in 2000, Corning scientists developed leading edge fiber optics
I’m Putting $6,000 into this Recent IPO
Investing in any recent initial public offering (IPO) carries one obvious risk: You may be buying as insiders and underwriters are getting set to sell. By federal law, these folks are "locked up," prevented from selling stock for 180 days after the IPO. When they can finally turn their pre-IPO stock into cash, they rarely hesitate.
So as soon as Zipcar's (NYSE: ZIP) backers and founders could sell shares in mid-October, they didn't hesitate, unloading more than 3 million shares by year's end. As a result, an IPO that closed at $ 28 on its first day of trading last spring now trades below $ 15.
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Wall Street Heads into Friday Looking For Perfect Week!
Market Summary Wall Street advanced on Thursday for the fourth consecutive session, hitting a new 8 month high as 2012 rolls on. Stocks struggled in early trading but closed slightly higher. On the…
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Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking You Are a Long-Term Investor If You Aren’t
Just as everyone likes to fancy themselves middle class (the facts: unless you make between $ 2,894.83 and $ 4,335.75 per month, the middle quintile for the American population, you are not middle class), everyone likes to talk about how they are long-term investors. Unfortunately, the facts don’t show that to be the case. While the average American stays in their home for seven years before selling it, many investors think displaying the same patience and horizon with a partial ownership stake in a company such as Pepsi or Johnson & Johnson is unfathomable. To them, six months is a long-term investment!
This begs the question: How can you be sure you aren’t just fooling yourself into thinking you have the right time perspective? To help answer, I wrote a new article called How Do You Know If You Are Making a Long-Term Investment?, which includes a checklist to help you determine if you are in it for the long-haul or trading stocks and fooling yourself.
The article also explains that not every company should be a long-term investment. Typically, you only want to own so-called “excellent businesses” that have very specific financial characteristics. (For more information on that topic, instead, read Getting Rich By Investing in an Excellent Business).
Both should be good places to start for new investors who don’t consider a good time to be chugging Pepto-Bismol in front of a trading screen, afraid to go to the bathroom for fear of losing their nest egg due to a change in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
What a Way to Head into the Christmas Break! Dow, S&P Green in 2011
Market Summary Wall Street staged a late day advance in what was a quiet pre-Christmas session to close positive on the day and turn the broader market into the plus column for 2011. An increase in…
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5 Solid Dividend Stocks that Could Turn into Mega High-Yielders
For many investors, 2011 should be remembered as the year of the dividend.
Weary of market volatility, investors are flocking to dividend stocks to lock in yields often twice the meager 2% return on U.S. Treasuries. Dividend stocks will likely remain popular as long as fears of Europe's debt crisis and a double-dip recession grip the market. An added bonus is dividends that may get a nice boost next year if companies start distributing more of their record cash stockpiles to boost shareholder value.
But investors shouldn't wait for dividends to be raised further. It's far smarter to lock in a 4% yield (which is still pretty good) from a solid company's shares now, for example, and watch that dividend payout grow to become a 6%, 8%, 10% –even higher — yield on your original purchase price.
Getting Thru to Your Emotions with EFT: Tap into Your Hidden Potential with the Emotional Freedom Techniques
Getting Thru to Your Emotions with EFT: Tap into Your Hidden Potential with the Emotional Freedom Techniques
Many people consider the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) a modern miracle. These easy-to-do processes are revolutionizing the field of psychology. By simply tapping on stress-relief points on the body, you can use these techniques to clear stuck emotions and self-defeating patterns, producing profound breakthroughs. It’s usually fast and amazingly effective. Also, learn about other dynamic healing tools that enhance EFT, such as muscle-testing and the Getting Thru Techniques. The Gettin
The Small-Cap Advantage: How Top Endowments and Foundations Turn Small Stocks into Big Returns (Wiley Finance)
The Small-Cap Advantage: How Top Endowments and Foundations Turn Small Stocks into Big Returns (Wiley Finance)
A world-renowned money manager shares winning strategies for small-stock investingSince forming Bares Capital Management, Inc. in 2000, Brian Bares has shown that above average returns can be generated through the careful selection of small company common stocks. Additionally, he’s shown how concentrating capital in a handful of ideas improves the potential for outperformance by increasing the depth of knowledge of each position and allowing each security to have a more meaningful impact on the
Asset Managers Forced Into Rethink
By the Financial Times (Financial Times) — Asset management bosses are unusually glum. Not only are markets in turmoil, but their businesses are increasingly under pressure from clients who are switching to alternative investments while pushing for lower fees.
Michael Dobson, chief executive of Schroders, the fund manager, was the first last month to highlight the rush of investors pulling out of equity and bond funds to hoard cash in a headlong flight to safety.
With the exception of Peter Hargreaves of Hargreaves Lansdown, few chief executives in the industry have since missed an opportunity to caution publicly that more market turbulence is on the way while privately worrying that further bouts of poor investment returns and renewed calls for lower charges will permanently dent profitability….
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