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Coke’s Stock Opens Happiness for Investors (TheStreet.com)
The beverage titan gets a ‘buy’ rating and increases its dividend, while analysts expect earnings to grow.
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BofA Mulls Sale of First Republic: Report (TheStreet.com)
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are considered possible buyers of First Republic Bank, a report says.
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American Plans Furloughs of Flight Attendants (TheStreet.com)
American Airlines is telling flight attendants it intends to furlough more than 400 of them on April 1 if it doesn’t have enough volunteers for early leaves and retirements.
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Medicare Concerns Raise Cigna Put Activity (TheStreet.com)
More than 30,000 puts traded Wednesday, nearly two months of trading volume in a single session.
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Education Stocks Rise to Head of the Class (TheStreet.com)
DeVry, Strayer and Apollo Group, which get ‘buy’ ratings, have made investors money in the past year.
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Big Three, Task Force Talk Options: Report (TheStreet.com)
Ford, meanwhile, wil give another round of buyout and early retirement offers to hourly workers, and the company’s top two executives will take 30% pay cuts.
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Citi May Sell Japan Investment Bank: Reports (TheStreet.com)
Citigroup may sell its Japanese investment bank in addition to its brokerage in Japan, reports say.
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Cramer’s ‘Stop Trading!’: Pepsi Could Pop (TheStreet.com)
Jim Cramer says he prefers Pepsi to Coca-Cola.
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AIG’s Auction of Asian Arm Failing: Report (TheStreet.com)
Bids for American International Group’s Asian arm are due Friday and a number of bidders have abandoned the process.
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Zacks Releases Four Powerful “Buy” Stocks: Capella Education Co., Archer Daniels Midland Company, Inverness Medical … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
CHICAGO—-Four free stock picks are being made available today on Zacks.com. The industry’s leading independent research firm highlights one Zacks #1 Rank Strong Buy or a Zacks #2 Rank Buy stock for each of the four main styles of investing: Aggressive Growth, Growth & Income, Momentum, and Value.
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