• FRMO: A Fantastic Business At A Terrible Price

  By Alpha Vulture : Horizon Kinetics is a successful asset manager with $9.1B in AUM. The company itself is privately owned, but it's nevertheless possible for investors to own a piece of the business through FRMO Corp. ( OTC:FRMO ). This $300 million micro cap company is run by Murray Stahl and…

• AstraZeneca bounces on shorts warning

  With AstraZeneca underperforming its European sector by 25 per cent over the past two years, pipeline news due in 2014 could be enough to trigger a rally, Merrill reckoned

• Mercury General Management Discusses Q3 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

  Mercury General ( MCY ) Q3 2013 Earnings Call October 28, 2013 1:00 pm ET Executives Gabriel Tirador - Chief Executive Officer, President, Director and Member of Investment Committee Theodore R. Stalick - Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Vice President Robert Houlihan -…

• J.C. Penney: Why A REIT-Like Spin-Off Is Not A Real Option

  By Elephant Analytics: One of the scenarios discussed before for J.C. Penney ( JCP ) involved the potential for J.C. Penney to take its top locations and turn it into a REIT-like entity . However, the reality is that such a move would be difficult to pull off successfully. There are questions about…

• Stock Pick For 2014 And A Look Back At The Stellar Performances Of The 2012 And 2013 Picks

  By Regarded Solutions : For the third year in a row, I will make my prediction of the "stock of the year" for 2014. It should be, at the very least, duly noted that with a bit of good fortune, my stock picks for 2 consecutive years, 2012 and 2013, have had stellar performances. By no means…

• Analysis: Kenya shutdown tempers east African oil ambitions

  NAIROBI (Reuters) - Tullow Oil's suspension of drilling in Kenya after weekend protests shows that popular impatience for a share of the spoils is compounding the problems energy firms face building an oil and gas industry from scratch in east Africa.

• Vivendi and Lagardere agree 1 billion euro Canal+ buyout

  PARIS (Reuters) - Vivendi has reached an agreement to buy out partner Lagardere's 20 percent stake in pay-television operator Canal+ France for 1.02 billion euros ($1.41 billion), the companies said on Monday.

• Global stocks hover near six-year peaks

  World equities traded at their highest levels since January 2008 amid expectations that the Federal Reserve will refrain from tapering QE until next year

• Bank of Hawaii Corporation Discusses Q3 2013 Results (Webcast)

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• Call to link eurozone leniency to reform

  Eurozone countries should be given more time to bring budgets into line only if they agree to structural reforms, says Dutch minister

• Alliance Holdings' CEO Discusses Q3 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

  Alliance Holdings GP, L.P. ( AHGP ) Q3 2013 Earnings Conference Call October 28, 2013 10:00 am ET Executives Joseph Craft – President, Chief Executive Officer Brian Cantrell – Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer Analysts Jim Rollyson – Raymond James Mark Levin – BBT Capital…

• GBP/USD - Little Movement As Pending Home Sales Plunges

  By Dean Popplewell : By Kenny Fisher The British pound has picked up where it left off last week and is showing little movement in Monday trading. In the North American session, GBP/USD is trading in the mid-1.61 range. Taking a look at economic releases, British and US releases have started the…

• Jazz Still Undervalued

  By ONeil Trader : Shares of Jazz Pharmaceuticals ( JAZZ ) are up 77% this year, and the stock remains cheap. The company is growing earnings and revenue considerably, and is not being priced accordingly. This is due to its main product Xyrem and concerns that generic competition is a serious threat.…

• Canadian Dollar Stable After Dismal Week

  By Dean Popplewell : By Kenny Fisher The Canadian dollar is trading quietly in Monday trading, after being roughed up by the US dollar last week. USD/CAD jumped about 150 points last week, and is trading in the mid-1.04 range, its highest levels since early September. In economic news, US Pending…

• CNA Financial Management Discusses Q3 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

  CNA Financial ( CNA ) Q3 2013 Earnings Call October 28, 2013 10:00 am ET Executives James M. Anderson - Senior Vice President of Financial Planning & Analysis and Corporate Development Thomas F. Motamed - Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Member of Awards Committee, Member of Proxy…

• Penney reiterates sales trends are improving, shares up

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - J.C. Penney Co Inc told investors for the third time in less than five weeks that sales trends are improving and reaffirmed its forecast calling for positive comparable-store sales results coming out of the third quarter.

• Merck's Januvia, animal health products slump; shares off

  (Reuters) - Merck & Co Inc reported lower sales of its Januvia diabetes treatment, fresh evidence its biggest product is losing ground to newer drugs, and also spooked investors with falling quarterly sales of its animal health products.

• Manufacturing Output Is Soft While Industrial Picks Up

  By James Picerno : Industrial production beat expectations and increased 0.6% in September vs. August, the best monthly comparison since February, the Federal Reserve reports. The year-over-year change turned higher as well, with output expanding 3.2% last month vs. a year earlier-the biggest annual…

• The Unknown Workaround To Healthcare.gov

  At midnight at the beginning of October 1, I logged onto Healthcare.gov with gleeful anticipation. Throughout the evening on Twitter, healthcare writers joked how we would be responsible for bringing the web site down, all in satisfying our curiosity and the need to write an article. As we all know,…

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• Intel And Solid State Drives

  By Russ Fischer: Intel ( INTC ) promotes, makes and sells solid state drives (SSDs). The current Intel offering appears to be aimed at higher end markets such as high performance computing, data center and gaming applications. It appears obvious that Intel will target the high volume client PC for…