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Boeing Just Won a Multibillion-Dollar Contract. Here's Why That's Bad News.

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In 2011, desperate to win contracts for a defense business that was suffering flat revenues and declining profits, and threatened by rival defense contractors trying to horn in on its aerial refueling tanker business, Boeing bid low on a contract to build new "KC-X" refueling tankers for the U.S. For just $31.5 That's the bad news.

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Can This High-Yield Dividend Stock Keep Beating the S&P 500?

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biotech firm, has been a coveted dividend stock since it began regular distributions to shareholders in 2011. Investors bid up the biotech's stock by almost 10% last year in response to the excitement over its experimental weight loss candidate, MariTide. Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) , a top-tier U.S. AMGN Total Return Level data by YCharts.

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Deal Roundup: CVC, Advent bid for pet food business, Actis to sell African fibre operator

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CVC and Advent International have made a joint bid for European pet food business PPF from Cinven, according to a report by the Financial Times. Cinven was previously seeking roughly €2bn for the business, although no talks with CVC and Advent are still ongoing.

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Billionaire Investor Bill Gates Has 87% of His $45 Billion Portfolio in Just 5 Stocks

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To that end, the foundation has paid out nearly $54 billion since 2000, in its bid to take on "the toughest, most important problems," including disease and poverty around the globe. The trust gets reliable income thanks to the dividend Microsoft has paid consistently since 2004 while boosting its payout yearly since 2011.

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This Labor Strike Just Cost 10% of Boeing's Workers Their Jobs

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Boeing management did itself no favors when it bid low on the KC-76 contract back in 2011. And specifically, Boeing will "reduce the size of our total workforce by roughly 10 percent" -- 17,000 workers. What this means for Boeing and IAM Admittedly, not all of this is the union's fault.

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The New Bitcoin ETFs Are a No-Brainer Way to Build Wealth, but Only If You Plan to Buy and Hold for the Long Term

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In the decade from 2011-2021, Bitcoin was the best-performing asset in the world. From a total cost of ownership perspective, all of those trading commissions and losses on bid-ask spreads are going to add up, and you will potentially be turning your low-cost asset into a high-cost asset.

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Advent and CVC make joint bid for Cinven’s pet food business PPF

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Private equity firms Advent International and CVC Capital are teaming up to launch a joint bid to acquire Partner in Pet Food (PPF), a European animal food brand owned by Cinven, which is seeking around €2bn for the business, according to a report by The Financial Times.

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