• Tactical Asset Allocation Strategy Using Schwab-Free ETFs

  By Cliff Smith : I have written previous articles on conservative, moderate, and aggressive Tactical Asset Allocation (TAA) strategies, and some people have asked for a conservative strategy using Schwab commission-free ETFs. The cost of buying and selling ETFs on a semi-monthly basis can add up and…

• SMG Indium An Undiscovered Asset Play With An Activist Investor Trying To Close The Discount

  By Marc Melendez: Editors' Note: This article covers a stock trading at less than $1 per share and/or with less than a $100 million market cap. Please be aware of the risks associated with these stocks. I have a preference for high quality stocks with a defensible competitive advantage, a…

• Facebook revenue surges 63%

  Social networking giant Facebook reports profits of $523m and a 63% increase in revenue for the fourth quarter, beating expectations.

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• How to Avoid an IPO Hangover

  At Betterment we have one foot in the investment world and another in the tech world. As the CEO, I am often asked questions about what our entrepreneurial customers should do with their equity after a liquidity event, like an IPO. First, I tell them congratulations. I know how hard everyone works…

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• Target says criminals attacked with credentials stolen from vendor

  BOSTON (Reuters) - Target Corp said on Wednesday that the cyber criminals who breached its system used credentials they stole from one of the retailer's vendors.

• 2 High-Quality REIT Arbitrage Plays

  By Morgan Myrmo: When it comes to long/short investing, I am an inexperienced virgin. I don't short stocks, nor have I ever. I am currently too small of an investor to be concerned with arbitrage opportunities involving pair trades. As an informed investor however, I am in-tune with a couple of…

• Is Your Dividend Growth Stock Coming Or Going?

  By Roger F. Goodrich : Is Your Dividend Growth Stock Coming or Going? This question asks is DG improving or lagging - accelerating or decelerating? I recently published an article here at SA concerning development of a metric for degradation in linear dividend growth stocks. When that was completed,…

• Wall Street sells off after Fed sticks with stimulus cuts

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks dropped more than 1 percent on Wednesday, hitting session lows after the Federal Reserve stuck with its plan to scale back stimulus even in the midst of emerging market turmoil.

• WR Grace's bankruptcy exit financing deal gets court approval

  (Reuters) - Chemical maker W.R. Grace & Co received approval to line up about $1.55 billion in bankruptcy exit financing, a court filing showed on Tuesday.

• Google to sell Motorola Mobility

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• What is a 'MyRA' retirement account?

  In his State of the Union address, President Obama announced the creation of new 'MyRA' retirement accounts aimed at helping millions of Americans start saving for retirement. Here's how they will work.

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• 5 Ways This Super Bowl Is Like Retirement Planning

  The build-up to the 2014 Super Bowl has focused as much on the weather as it has on the Seahawks and Broncos. Given how unpredictable winter weather in New Jersey is, it makes a pretty good metaphor for the uncertainties you face in building your retirement nest egg.

• Normalized Bank Earnings Indicate Further Gains

  By Tanya Azarchs : This year's earnings for the big banks were very noisy. On the negative side they included litigation costs, losses on revaluations of their own debt, and some repositioning costs, and further pressure on net interest margins. On the positive side there were large reversals of…

• Google sells Motorola unit to Lenovo

  Google announces the surprise sale of its Motorola Mobility unit, which it bought in 2012, to Chinese computer maker Lenovo for $2.91bn.

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• Google to sell Motorola to Lenovo

  $3bn deal will mark tech group's rapid retreat after less than two years in the handset business after it acquired Motorola for $12.5bn in 2012

• An Update On American Airlines

  By Yueping Guo : On the first day of trading, December 9, 2013, for the new American Airlines ( AAL ), formed by the merger between US Airways and the old American Airlines, I wrote an article to recommend its shares. (The article actually appeared a few days later because this was my first article…

• SEI Investments Management Discusses Q4 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

  SEI Investments ( SEIC ) Q4 2013 Earnings Call January 29, 2014 2:00 pm ET Executives Alfred P. West - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dennis J. McGonigle - Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Joseph Paul Ujobai - Executive Vice President Wayne Montgomery Withrow - Executive…

• Facebook profit soars

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• Boston Properties Management Discusses Q4 2013 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

  Boston Properties ( BXP ) Q4 2013 Earnings Call January 29, 2014 10:00 am ET Executives Arista Joyner - Investor Relations Manager Mortimer B. Zuckerman - Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Owen D. Thomas - Chief Executive Officer and Director John Francis Powers - Senior Vice President and…