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When it comes to figuring out distances to targets and hazards on the golf course, I’ve been relying on GPS whenever and wherever it’s available. Oh sure, handheld rangefinders are superior to GPS devices, when it comes to exact distances. After all, GPS devices built into on-cart screens often provide [...]

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Flooring giant Carpetright is the latest retailer to spook investors. Is this a sign of things to come?

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NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 26: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg visits the new East Coast headquarters of the online review company Yelp on October 26, 2011 in New York City. The Bloomberg administration has been heralding and working to facilitate the tech sector in New York City in [...]

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Tax reform could create the biggest change in the private equity industry since firms like Blackstone and Apollo listed their shares, doubling the wealth of billionaires like Stephen Schwarzman and Leon Black.

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In recent trading, shares of Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASD: CTXS) have crossed above the average analyst 12-month target price of $91.23, changing hands for $91.76/share. When a stock reaches the target an analyst has set, the analyst logically has two ways to react: downgrade on valuation, or, re-adjust their target [...]

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To become a "Dividend Aristocrat," a dividend paying company must accomplish an incredible feat: consistently increase shareholder dividends every year for at least 20 consecutive years. Companies with this kind of track record tend to attract a lot of investor attention — and furthermore, "tracking" funds that follow the Dividend [...]

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Trivago (TRVG), a hotel search platform, is going public at a time when the company can tout robust revenue growth and a high-profile in the U.S. from heavy advertising. Trivago is positioned in the fast-growing travel, hotel, and leisure business and boasts access to 1.3 million hotels worldwide. Management believes [...]

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Looking at options trading activity among components of the S&P 500 index, there is noteworthy activity today in Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT), where a total volume of 24,955 contracts has been traded thus far today, a contract volume which is representative of approximately 2.5 million underlying shares (given that every [...]

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Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to measure the level of fear in a given stock is through a technical analysis indicator called the Relative Strength Index, or RSI, which measures momentum [...]

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