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From 24/7 Wall Street: Most investors have discovered that earning less than 1% per year in short-term Treasurys or even less than 2% out in the 10-year Treasury is no fun. Longer-dated Treasury bonds also are proving that investors are taking on valuation risks they had not considered. So 2012, after 2011, has been a great year for dividend- and income-oriented investors. Almost every company with earnings quality is hiking its [...] From Dividend Growth Stocks: Move over, Intel (INTC) and Microsoft (MSFT). Two years ago, this networking giant didn’t even pay a dividend. In April of this year, it increased its dividend 33%. Most investors would be satisifed with that increase, but the company wasn’t finished boosting its dividend in 2012. Read full article… Stocks around the world have been struggling lately, but one group of equities may ultimately benefit from all the fear and uncertainty: so-called megacaps. WASHINGTON—Some of the most heavily traded U.S. stocks might also be among the most expensive to trade, costing investors as much as $2.5 billion a year, according to a New York trading and research firm. Stocks such as Bank of America Corp., Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., and Ford Motor Co. are so popular with high-frequency trading firms that long-term investors often have trouble quickly buying and selling the stocks, according [...] Already this year, more than 283,000 people were fired according to Challenger Gray & Christmas. Of those laid off, nearly 60 percent were dismissed because of a corporate restructuring or cost cutting move. Business Insider dug through corporate filings, press releases, and data through Bloomberg to assemble a list of the North American companies that have been hardest hit by layoffs. Figures are based on announced numbers, meaning cuts may be partially underway or set to start later [...] And it is only going to get much worse. Cisco to Lay Off About 1300 Employees? Wall Street Journal Kiwifruit woes lead to orchard layoffs Initially, Cisco updated their privacy policy to give them the right to keep track of things like how much traffic goes through your router and which websites you’re looking at. Read More: http://www.neowin.net/news/cisco-locks-users-out-of-their-routers-requires-invasive-cloud-service Definition: Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment. Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco_Systems
Apple (Ticker: AAPL) is doing great these days. In January, the company reported that profits for the holiday quarter more than doubled. On July 10th 1997, the stock was trading as low as $3.16. From $3.16 to $526+ is an increase of 16,554.75% in 15 years time. SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Investors in U.S. stocks, which just wrapped up their best start of the year since 1987, are expected to shift their attention next week toward the ongoing euro-zone crisis and earnings reports from bellwethers Cisco Systems Inc. and Walt Disney Co., among others. The past week was an eventful period, with financial markets focusing on the filing of Facebook Inc.’s FB 0.00% $5 [...] Ron Paul US Army $78,056 US Navy $56,769 US Air Force $55,405 Google Inc $52,801 Microsoft Corp $47,923 US Postal Service $26,591 Hewlett-Packard $25,318 Lockheed Martin $23,425 Cisco Systems $23,007 Boeing Co $22,434 Verizon Communications $19,944 Wachovia Corp $19,629 US Dept of Defense $19,198 General Dynamics $18,506 AT&T Inc $17,946 Northrop Grumman $16,907 JPMorgan Chase & Co $16,072 Apple Inc $15,903 Raytheon Co $15,830 General Electric $15,000
Mitt Romney Source: OpenSecrets As a coalition led by Apple Inc. (AAPL), Google Inc. (GOOG), and Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) presses for a tax holiday on more than $1 trillion in offshore profits, it is turning to a well-positioned lobbyist: Jeffrey Forbes, once chief of staff to Max Baucus, chairman of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee. Data compiled by Bloomberg News show that Forbes is part of an army of more than 160 lobbyists, including [...] By Steve Goldstein WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The number of announced job cuts surged 60% to a 16-month high of 66,414 in July, according to the consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Merck & Co., Borders, Cisco Systems, Lockheed Martin and Boston Scientific accounted for 57% of the total, or 38,100 positions. “What may be most worrisome about the July surge is that the heaviest layoffs occurred [...] As Congress and the President wrangle over who will pay for the New Austerity—guess who!—and Larry Summers seeks a guarantee that no big financial institution in any country should be allowed to fail, the Real Economy is suffering through a new surge of layoffs. The Wall Street Journal tells the story in Layoffs Deepen Gloom. Companies are laying off employees at a level not seen in [...] Associated PressJuly 21, 2011, 7:22 a.m. WASHINGTON— More people applied for unemployment benefits last week, evidence that layoffs are rising and the job market is weak. Applications for unemployment benefits rose by 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 418,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. The four-week average, a less volatile measure, dipped to 421,250. Applications have topped 400,000 for 15 straight weeks, a sign of sluggish hiring. Applications had fallen in February to [...] Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), the largest networking-equipment company, may cut as many as 10,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of its workforce, to revive profit growth, according to two people familiar with the plans.The cuts include as many as 7,000 jobs that would be eliminated by the end of August, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren’t final. Cisco is also providing early-retirement packages [...] “Failed state.” That sounds harsh, doesn’t it? Do a web search with the words “failed state” and names like Somalia, Haiti, and Sudan will appear on your computer screen. Unfortunately, the 31st state in our union – California – is looking more and more like a “failed state” as well. And this should matter to every American, because like it or not, California is both a [...] Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) has cut its income taxes by $7 billion since 2005 by booking roughly half its worldwide profits at a subsidiary at the foot of the Swiss Alps that employs about 100 people. Now Cisco, the largest maker of networking equipment, wants to save even more — by asking Congress to waive most federal taxes due when multinationals bring such offshore earnings home. Chief Executive Officer John T. [...] There is a cash crisis in corporate America—although it comes not from a shortage of the stuff, but from a surplus. In the first quarter, the five companies with the greatest cash hoards—Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Google, Apple and Johnson & Johnson—added $15 billion in cash and marketable securities to their balance sheets. Microsoft alone packed away roughly $9 billion, or $100 million a day. All told, the companies [...] WASHINGTON – Members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement have filed a lawsuit against Cisco Systems Inc. accusing it of supplying the Chinese government with computer-networking equipment used to spy on and persecute dissidents. In a lawsuit filed last week, a group of Falun Gong practitioners alleges that Cisco provided networking gear and technical assistance to build and operate an elaborate system of Internet controls [...] Cisco Systems has warned investors that sales in the current quarter will fall below expectations. Shares in the company, currently in the midst of restructuring, fell 3% on the news. Chief executive John Chambers said sales in the April-to-June quarter would be flat to 2% higher, compared with the same period a year earlier. That forecast falls short of market expectations, as analysts had been looking for a 7% increase. In recent years, Cisco, [...] From WSJ: Facebook Inc.’s business is growing faster than it forecast several months ago, raising the stakes for an initial public offering as early as spring of next year, said people who have seen Facebook’s recent financial information. One of these people said the company is on track to exceed $2 billion in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, or Ebitda, in 2011. That is above [...] The Drought Is Over (at Least for C.E.O.’s) HAPPY days are back — in the corner office, at least. In just nine months, Philippe Dauman of Viacom was paid $84.5 million, more than any other C.E.O. made all year. After shrinking during the 2008-9 recession, paychecks for top American executives are growing again — in many cases, significantly so. Rarely has the view from [...] by SiriuslyLong The Drought Is Over (at Least for C.E.O.’s) HAPPY days are back — in the corner office, at least. In just nine months, Philippe Dauman of Viacom was paid $84.5 million, more than any other C.E.O. made all year. After shrinking during the 2008-9 recession, paychecks for top American executives are growing again — in many cases, significantly so. Rarely has the view [...] S&P 500 companies have cut their cash stockpiles to $2.4T from a record $2.46T, with capital spending up $22.3B in the most recent quarter to $142.8B. From Bloomberg: In the first decline since mid-2009, Standard & Poor’s 500 companies reduced cash and short-term investments to $2.4 trillion from a record $2.46 trillion, according to data Bloomberg compiled from their most recent quarterly reports. Capital spending increased $22.3 billion, the biggest [...] Earlier this morning the Rafael Resendes, Co-Founder of The Applied Finance Group and co-manager for the Toreador Large Cap Fund: TORLX, appeared on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street alongside Roger Ibbotson, Yale Professor of Finance. In the interview Mr. Resendes provided three stocks that he believes are attractive investment opportunities. View Interview Here After the CNBC interview we caught up with Mr. Resendes to elaborate a little [...] Cisco Systems reported improved earnings, but the recovery was mostly as expected, and the company’s shares retreated 4 percent as investors cashed in on their recent gains. AP The computer networking giant said it earned $2.4 billion, or 42 cents a share in its fiscal first quarter, excluding one-time items, against a profit of 36 cents a share during the same period last year. Sales rose to $10.75 billion [...] |
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