Guide to attending earnings conference calls
At the end of each quarter, corporations listed on US stock exchanges file their earnings usually prior to trading opening or more often after the close. I try to listen in on these conference calls for the companies that I follow as much as possible. Here is a quick guide:
What?
Conference calls where company executives present the financial and operating activities, comment on future expectations and also answer questions from selected financial analysts

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Mapping Out Our Financial Life
The other night I spent some time streamlining our banking system. I’ve more or less settled on three core online savings accounts: ING Direct, Ally Bank, and Discover Bank to go along with our local bank accounts.
Star Money Articles and Carnivals for the Week of Aug 30
Let's start off with a reminder: FMF is on Facebook. Every weekday I post a couple pieces that usually aren't on FMF. It's a great way to connect and get some extra money advice/news if you're on Facebook quite often.
Here are some pieces I found especially worthwhile and some of the carnivals Free Money Finance was in this week and my posts that were included:

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Musical Bills b/w Treading Water
Katie writes in:
The article on budgets was *great.* I’ve long felt guilty for not doing the whole formal budget thing, especially since I always liked and did well at math. (Like you, however, spreadsheets cause my eyes
to roll back in my head.)

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Making the case for dividend stocks with a high payout ratio
As regular readers know, every month we post the top dividend stocks from the S&P500. Then, a few days later we send out a newsletter (you can sign up for it free) which takes a deeper look into those stocks in order to get not the highest dividend stock but the one that shows the most promise in terms of long term passive income.

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[Video] Study: CEOs Who Cut the Most Jobs During Great Recession Were Paid 42% Higher than Peers
There was a nice little snippet on Reuters that I said I'd get to yesterday in the post about the 10,000 jobs lost via ADP. Simply put there are way too many issues / implications to discuss in a single post - we've touched on it here and there over the years, but I'll focus on just one issue - that is, the misalignment between short term incentive packages and long term benefit.

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Market Timing Outperforming Buy-and-Hold
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Wednesday links: September snap back
We are now back in the trading range. (Big Picture)
August asset class performance. (Bespoke)

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Yes, You WILL Get Social Security
This is a guest post from Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He contributes one new article to Get Rich Slowly every two weeks.
We hear a lot about the doubts over the future of Social Security. Here are a few I’ve come across:

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Market Updates: Monsanto (NYSE:MON), Saks (NYSE:SKS), AIG (NYSE:AIG), Dollar General (NYSE:DG)
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Monsanto (NYSE:MON) lowered the top end of its profit guidance for the full year. The agricultural products maker said earnings for the fiscal year ending Aug. 31 would be in the range of $2.40 to $2.45 a share, versus its prior forecast of $2.40 to $2.60 a share. Analysts polled were looking for earnings of $2.52 a share, on average.

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