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Do More With Less: Ending Boring Meetings

Last month, Mark Ford wrote about the dangers of inefficient meetings and the waste they can create for your business.
Today, he explains how you can improve your meetings by setting a clear purpose and inviting the right people.

I was never a big fan of meetings. But, as the little businesses I started grew larger, I realized that meetings were absolutely necessary.
With the advent of cyber employees, meetings became more necessary. Employees who are physically removed from headquarters are less likely to hear about developments casually on smoke and coffee breaks.
Yes, for somebody who never really liked meetings, I’ve seen them …read more […]

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Assessing the Health of Chinese Internet Companies

Nov.06 — Richard Wong, vice president and head of ICT for Asia Pacific at Frost & Sullivan, talks about Chinese internet companies. Baidu Inc. reported quarterly revenue that beat analysts’ estimates after the Chinese search giant’s business proved resilient to an economic slowdown and competition from ByteDance Inc. Wog speaks with Shery Ahn and Haidi Stroud-Watts on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia.” …read more […]

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Gladstone: 3Q Earnings Snapshot

MCLEAN, Va. (AP) _ Gladstone Land Corp. (LAND) on Wednesday reported a key measure of profitability in its third quarter. The real estate investment trust, based in McLean, Virginia, said it had funds from operations of $3 million, or 14 cents per share, in the period. Funds from operations is a closely watched measure in the REIT industry. …read more […]

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UPDATE 1-U.S. DoJ demands Ford Focus, Fiesta documents – Detroit Free Press

The U.S. Department of Justice has demanded documents related to the transmission used in about 2 million of Ford Motor Co’s Fiesta and Focus vehicles sold throughout this decade, the Detroit Free Press reported on Wednesday. A Ford spokesman told Reuters that it has cooperated with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) as to DPS6-related issues beginning in 2014. …read more […]

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Is Timkensteel Corporation (TMST) A Good Stock To Buy?

The latest 13F reporting period has come and gone, and Insider Monkey is again at the forefront when it comes to making use of this gold mine of data. We have processed the filings of the more than 700 world-class investment firms that we track and now have access to the collective wisdom contained in […] …read more […]

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Were Hedge Funds Right About Dumping HighPoint Resources Corporation (HPR)?

Amid an overall bull market, many stocks that smart money investors were collectively bullish on surged through October 17th. Among them, Facebook and Microsoft ranked among the top 3 picks and these stocks gained 45% and 39% respectively. Our research shows that most of the stocks that smart money likes historically generate strong risk-adjusted returns. […] …read more […]

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Hedge Funds Have Never Been Less Bullish On J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (JCP)

Amid an overall bull market, many stocks that smart money investors were collectively bullish on surged through October 17th. Among them, Facebook and Microsoft ranked among the top 3 picks and these stocks gained 45% and 39% respectively. Our research shows that most of the stocks that smart money likes historically generate strong risk-adjusted returns. […] …read more […]

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UPDATE 1-Albemarle plans $100 mln cost cuts to counter low prices

Albemarle Corp said on Wednesday it had started a cost control program targeting over $100 million in savings over the next two years, as the world’s largest lithium producer grapples with a fall in prices on near-term oversupply concerns. Albemarle did not provide any further details on the program on Wednesday. Albemarle reported an adjusted profit of $1.53 per share for the third quarter, in line with its preliminary estimates last month when it had also cut profit and sales forecast for the year. …read more […]

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Hedge Funds Have Never Been This Bullish On West Bancorporation, Inc. (WTBA)

Our extensive research has shown that imitating the smart money can generate significant returns for retail investors, which is why we track nearly 750 active prominent money managers and analyze their quarterly 13F filings. The stocks that are heavily bought by hedge funds historically outperformed the market, though there is no shortage of high profile […] …read more […]

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Did a Merger Make This 9.7% Yield More Secure?

In the summer of 2018, I analyzed the safety of master limited partnership (MLP) Energy Transfer Partners. At the time, the stock received a “C” rating.
The issues were that cash available for distribution (CAD), a measure of cash flow for MLPs, was heading lower and the company’s debt was too high.
Four months later, the MLP merged with its parent company, Energy Transfer Equity, and renamed itself Energy Transfer LP (NYSE: ET).
Let’s take a look at the new combined company and see if the distribution (partnerships pay distributions instead of dividends) is any safer.
CAD is soaring. This chart says it all.
This …read more […]

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Aurora Cannabis (ACB) Ready to Ride Mexican Legalization

The legalization of recreational pot in Mexico has been all over the financial news lately, as it’ll not only become the third nation in the world to legalize recreational pot, but easily the largest as well. It’s following in the footsteps of Canada and Uruguay.While Mexico is working out the details of the legalization of the recreational pot market, it’s largely a formality as to it being approved, with the final draft of the law to be decided in the near future.In this article we’ll look at what this means for Aurora Cannabis (ACB – See Price Targets) in the …read more […]