No Debt and High Yield Make Automatic Data Processing Inc. (Nasdaq: ADP) a "Buy"

Most people aren't incredibly familiar with Automatic Data Processing Inc. (Nasdaq: ADP), but it's a company every investor should know. You see, ADP, which provides payroll and human resources services to businesses, has two important traits that investors need in their portfolios right now. First, it has virtually no debt. Its unleveraged balance sheet has made it one of the few U.S. companies with a AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor's. It also has a perfect credit rating

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Latest Eurozone Debt Crisis Plan "Another Grand Illusion"

As European leaders celebrated a tentative agreement to accept tougher budgetary rules among its members, critics expressed doubts the plan would cure the two-year-old Eurozone debt crisis. Last week's highly anticipated two-day summit resulted in 26 of the 27 European Union (EU) nations - the United Kingdom objected - agreeing to create a new treaty that would require members to keep budget deficits to within 0.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) in good economic times and within 3% of

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The BRICs Will Be Dead Weight in 2012 - Invest in These Five Emerging Markets Instead

Don't let the headlines fool you, there's lots of money to be made in global investing in 2012. You're just going to have to be careful - more so than in years past - because right now the line drawn between successful markets and markets that are in danger of collapse is treacherously thin. Take the fashionable growth markets, the BRICs - Brazil, Russia, India and China - for example. Dead Weight It's been 10 years since Chairman of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) Asset

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