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Hospira Corp., a spin-off from Abbott Laboratories, saw its stock price racing past Abbott in recent days, winning a nod from investors that "the son" is outshining the parent -- at least for now.

The latest issue of 10x45 Bargain Hunter, a bi-weekly stock screening report. This report is based on market prices as of March 19th.

There are still opportunities, both long and short, in the world of small banks, though I think they are certainly beginning to shrink. For this post, I did a screen for banks trading between $3 and $5 per share and with negative earnings.

MMI Investments, the largest holder of DHT Holdings Inc stock, has announced that it sent a letter to Erik A. Lind, Chairman of DHT, formally nominating Robert N. Cowen for election to the DHT board.

Share buybacks are making a comeback in 2010 just as markets are approaching levels last seen prior to September/October 2008. Why is this happening now and how should shareholders evaluate management decisions on buybacks?

Influence, by Robert Cialdini, helps us understand the factors that influence us, which are exploited by, among others, the news media, our brokers, and research analysts, and thereby puts us in a position to protect ourselves from our own, hard-coded biases that we wouldn't otherwise know have been triggered.

Eventually, cooler heads prevailed. Rational shareholders who took Hamlet’s advice and actually thought about it came to realize what FedEx said was good news, not bad.

When Forbes releases its annual ranking of the world's richest billionaires tomorrow (Wednesday), it appears likely Warren Buffett will once again come in behind his friend and online bridge partner, Bill Gates.

See Warren Buffett rocking out in a music video featuring GEICO associates singing a guitar ballad about the insurer's "outstanding" customer service.

Warren Buffett and Lehman Brothers "never got close to a deal" as the firm struggled to raise capital in March of 2008, according to a just-released history of Lehman's downfall.

For the first time in a decade, Warren Buffett is not one of the two richest billionaires in the world, as ranked by Forbes magazine.

The annual Forbes billionaire face-off is back. And this year the billionaires are back, too.  In 2009, a financial bloodbath slashed the assets of the world's wealthiest in half.  In 2010? A revival.

However, investors should be careful not to assume that future growth is a fait accompli, or that revenues will even stabilize at current high levels. While we've often discussed how investors should interpret one-time losses, occasionally one-time gains can occur as well. Consider Alpha Pro Tech (APT), maker of a slew of protective products, from medical masks to roof underlay.

Catch this week's edition of the Festival of Stocks.