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Marlboro still smoking…

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Sure, the economy may be pretty dismal these days between thousands of job losses, stories about speed foreclosure hearings, and people setting their own broken bones. But all that gloom and doom doesn’t appear to have dampened consumers’ appetite for Marlboro cigarettes. Yesterday, executives at Altria (MO) gave a presentation to analysts at the annual  [...]

Tyco’s Ed Breen is no Derek Jeter…

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Last month, Derek Jeter got into a bit of trouble with New York State over where the Yankees superstar calls home. The same problem is unlikely to dog Tyco (TYC) Chairman and CEO Ed Breen according to a new disclosure buried in the preliminary proxy that Tyco filed late Friday. Since the footnote was in [...]