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5 Food Stocks: Dividends and Growth Make a Tasty Combination	People gotta eat. One thing that we all have in common is that we wake up hungry every day. Therefore, companies in the food business tend to be very stable and rather consistent long-term growers. Most pay dividends that grow with their earnings; some even grow earnings and dividends at above-average rates. The stock market, on the other hand, is not always consistent, or for that matter, rational. Even though they possess the attributes mentioned above, below we report on five blue chip food r...	December 03, 2009
Evening Reading: Bank Capitalization — It’s in the Eye of the Beholder	It’s in the eye of the beholder: There are well-capitalized banks. There are problem banks. And there are some that are both, writes David Reilly over at Bloomberg. Last week the FDIC said 96% of banks were well-capitalized as of Sept. 30, it also said about 7% were on its problem list. How does that work? Simply put: The adequacy of bank capital is still in the eye of the beholder. Short staffed? Main Street isn’t only place laying off employees. PE firms also cut back on junior sta...	December 02, 2009
Deals of the Day: To Break up BofA or Not?	Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity. Deal Journal’s homepage is http://blogs.wsj.com/deals. You can see real-time updates of our posts and our favorite deal-related articles on other Web sites through our Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/wsjdealjournal. Mergers & Acquisitions Campaigning Against Kraft: A great-great granddaughter of Cadbury’s founder, is trying to rally oppo...	December 02, 2009
Chinese Private Equity: Will Bad Money Drive Out Good?	The financial rule first postulated by Sir Thomas Gresham 500 years ago famously holds that “bad money drives out good”. In other words, if two different currencies are circulating together, the “bad” one will be used more frequently. By “bad”, what Gresham meant was a currency of equal face value but lower real value than its competitor. A simple way to understand it: if you had two $100 bills in your wallet, and suspected one is counterfeit and the other gen...	December 02, 2009
Evening Reading: Is Goldman Slipping From its Top Perch?	Is Goldman slipping? Sure Goldman is raking in record profits from its trading activities, but what about its client business – the part of Goldman that services the needs of the worlds biggest corporations. Goldman for years has been the the top dog on Wall Street in this arena. No longer. Goldmans deal-making machine faces mounting competition from megabank J.P. Morgan, and now from Morgan Stanley, writes Charlie Gasparino over at the Daily Beast. How is this possible? The damage...	December 01, 2009
Finally, a Month for Giving M&A Thanks	The recovery in the M&A market may have finally gained some traction. November ranks as the best month for deal making in more than a year. Global M&A volume hit $287.75 billion, more than double the year-earlier month’s total, according to Dealogic. Of course, November 2008 was the worst month for deal making in the past three years. But last month also marked a 93% increase over October and a 32% jump from September. U.S. deal volume, at $83 billion, more than quadrupled from a y...	December 01, 2009
Deals of the Day: GE, Vivendi Finally Agree on Value of NBCU	Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity. Deal Journal’s homepage is http://blogs.wsj.com/deals. You can see real-time updates of our posts and our favorite deal-related articles on other Web sites through our Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/wsjdealjournal. Mergers & Acquisitions General Electric: GE has hammered out an agreement to buy its partner’s minority stake in NBC Univer...	December 01, 2009
Deals of the Day: Conspicuous Consumption Returns to Wall Street	Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity. Deal Journal’s homepage is http://blogs.wsj.com/deals. You can see real-time updates of our posts and our favorite deal-related articles on other Web sites through our Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/wsjdealjournal. Mergers & Acquisitions AIG: A consortium of PE firms and the head of AIG’s International Lease Finance Corp. is close to ma...	November 30, 2009
Cheap Stocks High Dividends	It's amazing that there are over 25 stocks yielding more than 10% and selling for less than $10 a share. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has a list of low priced stocks, with market caps over $250 million, and very high yields. Here are some examples: Hercules Technology HTGC forward PE: 7.8 yield: 13.3% Alaska Communications ALSK forward PE: 30.8 yield: 11.5%For a list of low priced high yield stocks in the form of a free downloadable Excel database of high dividend low priced stocks, go to wsnn.c...	November 28, 2009
Shanda Games: Morgan Stanley Launches With Overweight Rating	Morgan Stanley analyst Lisa Yuan this morning launched coverage of Shanda Games (GAME) with an Overweight rating. She says fair value of the company’s American depositary shares is $14.10, well above Wednesday’s close at $10.36. Yuan writes that she sees the market for online games in China growing 20%-25% a year over the next three years, and that GAME, as an industry leader, will grow in line with the group. She notes that the stock is trading at 12x her 2010 EPS estimate, with a P...	November 27, 2009

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