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Excerpt: "Charles Norton, manager of the Vice Fund (VICEX) in Dallas, believes the spinoff will let Altria unlock the true value of its core tobacco business"

Beat analysts by $0.02, net dropped because of costs associated with spinoff from First Data.

Barron's Michael Santoli thinks Western Union could climb 14 percent or more. There are concerns money transfers over the Mexican border could drop off because of the current immigration policy debate. That plus the recent spinoff selling could be suppressing the price of this stock.

A summary of the October 9th Barron's. This edition includes interesting articles on Western Union, Sotheby's, and the networking sector.

Jon Ogg of 24/7 Wall St. finds the lack of coverage of the Western Union spin-off "puzzling". Western Union (WU) was spun-off from First Data (FDC). As of Monday, October 2nd, it is trading as a separate company under the ticker symbol WU.