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7 Restaurant Stocks to Avoid Amid Industry Woes & Harvey Blows

Hurricane Harvey's devastation has ranged far and wide, with heavy rainfall and flooding continuing to hit parts of Texas — particularly Houston — and Louisiana. Houston is the fourth most populous city in the United States and represents about 2% of the country’s total restaurant presence. In fact, according to the country’s official website, Houston residents are more likely to eat out than any other city in the country […]

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Defense Stock Roundup: Stocks Gain as North Korea Attacks Japan, COL-UTX Nears Merger

Wall Street witnessed a decent rally of the defense stocks at the onset of this week owing to North Korea’s missile launch that flew over Japan's Hokkaido island before crashing in to the sea. North Korea’s President justified the move as an action to counter the United States and South Korean military drills. In retaliation, South Korea dropped bombs on Korean peninsula […]

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Energy Transfer Gets FERC Permit for Partial Rover Startup

Midstream player Energy Transfer Partners ETP recently received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to offer Phase 1A of the Rover Pipeline. Phase 1A signifies the portion of the Rover Pipeline that spreads over 212 miles and will carry natural gas from Cadiz, OH, to Defiance, OH. The pipeline initiated service on Aug 31 […]

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3 MedTech Stocks Set to Rally in the Second Half

The second half of 2017 has already started, but for the 63-million citizens who voted for President Donald Trump at Capitol Hill have yet to witness the abolishment of Obamacare or a Mexican wall. The dollar has been under strong selling pressure this year amid ongoing uncertainty over the economic agenda of Trump and mounting speculation on whether the Fed will implement a third-rate hike this year. […]

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Eastman Chemical Hits New 52-Week High on Bright Prospects

Shares of chemical maker, Eastman Chemical EMN touched a fresh 52-week high of $86.79 on Aug 31, before pulling back to eventually close the day at $86.20. Eastman Chemical has a market cap of roughly $12.5 billion and average volume of shares traded in the last three months is around 1,035.4K. The company has an expected long-term earnings per share growth of around 7.9%. […]

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Tech Roundup: GOOGL Enterprise Push, AAPL Investment, WDC-Toshiba Deal

In the top stories last week, Alphabet GOOGL launched its Chrome Enterprise subscription to challenge Microsoft MSFT , Apple AAPL is likely beefing up Apple Music while Western Digital WDC looks set to acquire a stake in Toshiba Memory and prevent its sale to competitors. Here are the details: Google’s Chromebook Heads for the Enterprise Google has announced a service called Chrome Enterprise for $50 per chromebook per year. This compares with Microsoft’s $84 per user per year for Windows 10 Enterprise E3. […]

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Why Should You Buy Principal Financial (PFG) Stock Now?

Principal Financial Group Inc . PFG remains poised for growth, banking on deeper focus on fee-based revenue sources, strategic acquisitions, improving asset under management and effective capital deployment. The Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) investment manager looks promising on the back of a number of growth drivers. […]