Stock Investing

Light Layoffs May Lie

The releases of the latest data from ADP and Challenger, Gray & Christmas this morning offered a negative message that was overshadowed by positive data from China. However, we feel investors should pay attention to our insight as Friday’s Labor Department report queues up.

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Alliance Financial Corporation announced its quarterly dividend of 30 cents per share, an increase of about 7% over its prior dividend in June of 28 cents. The dividend is payable on October 1, 2010 to shareholders of record on September 17, 2010.

In other dividend news, Synovus Financial Corporation ( SNV – news – people ) maintained its quarterly dividend of 1 cent per share. ABM Industries Incorporated ( ABM – news – people ) maintained its quarterly dividend of 13.5 cents per share. PennantPark Investment Corporation ( PNNT – news – people ) maintained its quarterly dividend of 26 cents per share.

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IMDB.com, also known as Internet Movie Database, publishes STARmeter ratings of anyone who has ever had anything to do with show business. The STARmeter shows what people are interested in, based on the actual behavior of millions of IMDb users, showing if there is a high level of public awareness and/or interest in the person. Here is a list of several noted traders, investors, and other well-known individuals in the financial field, along with their STARrating change from last week. George Soros +511%Warren Buffett +24%Jim Cramer +14%Suze Orman +3%Al Gore 0%Robert Kiyosaki -1%Bill Gates -2%Maria Bartiromo -4%Erin Burnett -36%T. Full Post…

Because of popular demand …. and a fortuitous turn in the market on Friday …. I’m updating the stats on the Lunar Cycle/Stock Market phenomena. The last phase, which was waxing to full that ended on August 24, last Tuesday, saw the market decline a higher than average 6.17%. That brings the Moon’s batting average to 70.8% on a rolling 12-mos. basis and 76.9% cumulatively since this race began over a year ago.

The next phase ends on Wednesday, September 8. Due to the Labor Day holiday, there will only be 10 trading days during this phase.

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