Keurig Buys Dr. Pepper Snapple to Form Beverages Giant

Keurig has relationships with e-commerce companies and tech sellers, including Amazon.com Inc. and Best Buy Co., an area where Dr Pepper isn't as strong. Dr Pepper Snapple, meanwhile, has ties to convenience stores, drugstores and beverage vendors. “Combined, our nationwide distribution
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AGNC Investment logo AGNC Investment (NASDAQ:AGNC) was downgraded by stock analysts at BidaskClub from a “sell” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a research report issued on Friday, January 19th. Other research analysts have also issued research reports about the company. Zacks Investment
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mortgage, calculator NatWest is to reduce rates across its core and semi-exclusive ranges of both residential and buy-to-let mortgages and remortgages. Rates on residential mortgages are being reduced by up to 35bps and on buy-to-let deals by up to 61bps. Shared equity and Help to Buy products are
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Fortune Brands will gain from the strengthening U.S. housing market in the quarter. Housing starts exhibited solid month-over-month gains in October and November but slipped 8.2% in December. Overall, housing starts in the fourth quarter were up roughly 6.7% from the previous quarter. Favorable
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Trucks carry shipping containers next to a cargo ship docked in the APM Terminals yard at the Port of Mobile in Mobile, Alabama. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg. The European Union gave President Donald Trump a fresh warning about any U.S. curbs on imports from Europe by pledging swift
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Grantham sees multiple parallels with past stock run-ups and peaks. U.S. housing prices are high again. Borrowing for buying stocks is at a high level. And stock prices are certainly nowhere near bargain levels. “When the S&P 500 Index hits the 3200 to 3800 range,” Grantham pronounced, “there will be
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Amazon opened its new downtown Seattle office space on Monday, revealing a campus that looks more like a rainforest than a typical cubicle farm. The reveal of the new Sphere Complex comes after the world's largest online retailer spent seven years planning and constructing a cutting-edge space
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ROSELAND, NJ – ADP® has ranked in the top 10 in the WilsonHCG® 2018 “Fortune 500 Top 100 Employment Brands Report,” marking a significant advance from last year's ranking of 65. The fourth annual report objectively ranks all Fortune 500® companies and recognizes those who have moved
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Fairfield County's housing market continued to resemble a seesaw during the final three months of 2017, with the highest quantity of fourth-quarter sales in 13 years balanced against the lowest inventory in 17 years, according to a quarterly report by Douglas Elliman Real Estate. And capping the quarter
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Buckinghamshire Building Society has unveiled a number of fee-free mortgages for first-time buyers at 95% loan-to-value. The products are a 3-year discount at 2.99% and a 3-year fix at 3.49%, both with £250 cashback, as well as a 5-year fix at 3.99%. Tim Vigeon, head of lending at Buckinghamshire
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Baltimore Washington Financial Advisors Inc. grew its position in Marriott International by 5.0% in the 4th quarter. Baltimore Washington Financial Advisors Inc. now owns 51,861 shares of the company's stock valued at $7,039,000 after buying an additional 2,450 shares during the last quarter.
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The executive survey polled industry leading CRE decision-makers on economic trends, demographics, consumer preferences, and the supply and demand of commercial real estate assets. Executives were also asked to allocate a theoretical $1 billion worth of capital in CRE investments to get the best
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If you are a successful mortgage professional seeking an opportunity to join a thriving company with superior technology and high touch broker support, please contact National Director of Wholesale Lending, Greg Campbell (810.334.1643) or HR Specialist, Karley Warwick (248.286.9490). Michigan
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Canadian real estate prices were the fastest rising in the world, just a few months ago. Now we're claiming the opposite title, as the market explores where prices should be. Newly released Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (the Dallas Fed) numbers, show a decline in home prices for the third quarter of
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CHICAGO, Jan. 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Grainger (NYSE: GWW), the leading broad line supplier of maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) products serving businesses and institutions, is again named to Fortune's annual list of “World's Most Admired Companies” for 2018. Among competitors in the
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Voya Investment Management LLC raised its holdings in shares of Restaurant Brands International by 11.1% during the 2nd quarter. Voya Investment Management LLC now owns 8,474 shares of the restaurant operator's stock worth $529,000 after buying an additional 848 shares in the last quarter.
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Among 18 analysts covering Fortune Brands Home & Security (NYSE:FBHS), 12 have Buy rating, 0 Sell and 6 Hold. Therefore 67% are positive. Fortune Brands Home & Security had 50 analyst reports since July 24, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. The company was initiated on Monday, August 24 by
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What were once cutting-edge technologies have made their way further into the “real world” and are poised to have a profound impact on the way business is done in 2018. For evidence of this trend, look no further than the real estate sector, where a range of technologies are opening up the horizon
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Mr Mueller is among scores of banking giants who have lined up to shoot down the idea that cryptocurrencies could be viable long-term investments. Bank of Spain governor Luis Maria Linde said cryptocurrencies carry huge risks, while Austria's Financial Planners Association compared bitcoin with a
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Anworth Mortgage Asset Corporation (NYSE:ANH) shares saw the needle move -3.04% on the week. The stock closed the most recent session at $5.10 after seeing 994116 shares trade hands. This represents a change of -2.67% from the opening. The closing price represents the final price that a stock
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