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Target Is the Target The Kmart/Sears merger is not about real estate or synergies. Eddie Lampert is taking a big swing at greatness by combining two has-beens into a future champion. And the goal is to be just like Target. |
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Microsoft Might Be One of the Cheapest Stocks Out There If you can look past its rivals, this is one cheap stock. |
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How Much Would You Pay for Aces? Here is a lesson in valuation for poker players and investors alike. |
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My Deckers Decision Investors -- buy, sell or hold this stock? The decision is more difficult than you might think. |
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Best Bang for Your Buck Though all investing involves risk, a value approach proves that not all risks are created equal. |
Science News
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Seven-Game World Series In professional baseball's World Series, the championship is decided in a best-of-seven format. The first team to win four games gets the pennant. Curiously, series that go on for the full seven games appear to occur more often than simple probability arguments would suggest. |
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Understanding Your Social Customer Engagement Scenario These four stages of social customer engagement will give you a general overview or framework for where your company is today, and where it needs to go, when it comes to social CRM. |
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Be Your Own Casino: Part 1 The average investor can exploit a unique characteristic of options known as time decay via the use of spreads to reap profits in a limited-risk way. |
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Investing for the Worst-Case Scenario Let's consider two simple things that can help investors avoid permanent capital impairment. |
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October 18, 2004
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Will the Red Sox Make the World Series? A study in probability is illustrative in sports and in investing. Forecasting and calculating probabilities is essential to calculating expected values and thus stock valuation. |
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September 18, 2007
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The Value of a Franchise Simply put, a franchise exists where a company benefits from barriers to entry that keep potential competitors away. Value investors and Warren Buffett love them; are they right for you? |
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September 11, 2006
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Lampert Lights Up Sears Holdings The famed hedge fund manager wants to be the next Warren Buffett. Is he nuts or frighteningly smart? The investment thesis for Sears Holdings has to begin by considering the options currently available rather than focusing on the massive strategic missteps of years past. |
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March 10, 2005
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Kmart Acquires Cachet Discount retailer's improving financial condition positions it for future deals. Investors, take note. |
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December 12, 2005
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Playing with Fire IT is late to embrace risk analysis, but without it, project portfolio management is nothing more than a fad. |
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Forecasting Medicare: Price Controls in the Years Ahead Part D in 2010 will be under price and access pressure. Pharma should develop plans for the future by imagining best- and worst-case scenarios. |
BusinessWeek
November 22, 2004
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The Next Warren Buffett? Financier Eddie Lampert turned once-bankrupt Kmart into a $3 billion cash cow. Will he build it into a new Berkshire Hathaway? |
The Motley Fool
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Make Bill Gates Work For You Put your money to work with the best and brightest stars. You just have to pick the right stock and the right management team. |
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January 18, 2006
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Jump-Start Your Investments Successful business certainly can grow over time, taking their stocks along for the ride. You can get ahead of the curve with your portfolio, however, if you look for firms that happen to be trading well below where they should be. |
The Motley Fool
August 23, 2005
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Value Is Alive and Well Buy-and-hold value investing is dead, right? Wrong. And here's the time-tested system to generating wealth in the stock market. |
PC Magazine
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The Coolest Install two cooling fans in your PC. |
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Odd Man In How understanding reasoning and the random wonders of probability can help you make better decisions. |
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Eddie's Master Stroke The Sears-Kmart merger creates a retail giant -- and a platform Lampert can use for more deals. Investors are betting those dealmaking skills will keep making him -- and them -- lots of money. |
