Filed under: Stocks to Buy So far, institutional investors (IIs) have not noticed that Hess Corp.’s (NYSE: HES ) upstream operations (exploration and production) should benefit from high oil prices in the $80 per barrel range. But the argument here is that eventually they will, preferably starting in early 2010, which is why I’m reiterating my Buy rating for the company, first recommended on April 22, 2009 at a price of $50.41. Right now, IIs are fixated on the lower margins of downstream operations, which Hess and other refiners are coping with, as a result of recession-induced sluggish U.S.

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Filed under: Management , Industry , Market matters , Money and Finance Today , Politics , Headline news , Federal Reserve , Financial Crisis US Senator Bernie Sanders, independent from Vermont, is known for his straightforward and unbiased positions. His new legislative proposal is to break up big banks that are deemed “too big to fail.” To quote Mr. Sanders: “if an institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

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Senator Sanders proposes legislation to break up large banks

Filed under: Forecasts , Federal Reserve , Recession , Financial Crisis Is a Fed rate tightening up ahead any time soon? Despite concern that low, real, short-term interest rates are hurting the dollar. Don’t count on it.

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Fed signals low rates will continue ‘for an extended period’

Filed under: Earnings reports , Television , General Electric (GE) , Walt Disney (DIS) , CBS Corp ‘B’ (CBS) , News Corp’B’ (NWS) , Media World Shares of CBS (NYSE: CBS ) are no longer rolling around in the pits of equity hell.

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CBS challenged in Q3, waiting for better advertising climate

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Filed under: General Electric (GE) , Motorola (MOT) , Federal Natl Mtge (FNM) Today was a surprise considering the news. There was not great economic news to hang on, particularly considering that the 10.2% unemployment was the worst reading since 1983.

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Closing Bell: Unemployment must not be relevant (GE, ACOM, FNM, ZIOP, MOT, NVDA)

Filed under: duPont(E.I.)deNemours (DD) I’m placing a Hold on shares E.I. du Pont De Memours (NYSE: DD ), also known as Du Pont, first recommended on April 22, 2009 at a price of $27.48.

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Filed under: Personal finance , Housing As expected, the popular home buyers tax credit has been extended . In fact, it is even more attractive. OK, let’s first look at the extension of the current program, which includes a maximum $8,000 credit for first-time home buyers (which is someone who hasn’t owned a home in the past three years)

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A new and improved home buyers tax credit?

Filed under: Analyst reports , Analyst upgrades and downgrades , General Electric (GE) , Amazon.com (AMZN) , CBS Corp ‘B’ (CBS) , Analyst initiations , Deere and Co (DE) Analyst upgrades: Bernstein upgraded General Electric (NYSE: GE ) to Outperform from Market Perform Thursday after the close. The firm sees an improved risk/reward on the stock and raised its price target to $19 from $18. Bernstein also upgraded Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN ) to Outperform from Market Perform as it believes sales growth and margin expansion expectations are too low

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Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: AMZN, CBS, CVS, DE, GE, M, TRV …

Filed under: Earnings reports , Media World , World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) World Wrestling Entertainment (NYSE: WWE )’s stock jumped Thursday after the market took a look at the company’s Q3 data . Overall revenues didn’t see much of an increase, but earnings per share rose over 70% to 12 cents. Driving this incredible growth rate was a cut in gross costs

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World Wrestling Entertainment Q3 results exceed expectations