Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Big Changes Afoot For Dividend Aristocrats Index

About: (BF.B, Brown Forman, CTAS, Cintas, BBT, BB T, Legg Mason, LM, M&T Bank, MTB, State Street, SST, US Bankcorp USB, Avery Dennison, AVY, Gannett, GCI, Johnson Controls, JCI, General Electric, GE, Pfizer, PFE)

There are dozens, if not hundreds of indexes tracking various sectors of the market, but for [...]

Comcast Gets NBC Universal, Shareholders Get A Better Dividend

About: (Comcast, CMCSA, General Electric, GE, NBC Universal)

Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) finally announced that it has acquired a controlling interest in General Electric’s (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal media business whose assets are worth, by some estimates, $30 billion. Despite that hefty sum, Comcast won’t have to shell out [...]