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Wednesday August 5, 2009

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School Specialty (Nasdaq:SCHS), a leading education company providing supplemental learning products to the preK-12 market, has scheduled its fiscal 2010 first quarter earnings conference call for Thursday, August 20 at 11 a.m. Eastern Time. The company’s fiscal 2010 first quarter earnings news release will also be issued August 20, before the open of trading on the Nasdaq Market.

Array BioPharma Inc. (Nasdaq: ARRY) will report financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of fiscal 2009 on Monday, August 10, 2009, and will hold a conference call on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time to discuss these results. Robert E. Conway, Chief

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Master Limited Partnerships are a useful investment for minimizing your tax bill says Jim Nelson. They are trusts mainly comprised of natural resource, financial services, and real estate assets. Jim picks five small-cap MLPs that should provide steady income without the burden of double taxation.

This from Penny Sleuth:

In the corporate tax world, one dreaded phrase reappears when you talk about dividends: “Double Taxation”. All incorporated companies are taxed on the income they make. The shareholders are taxed again on any dividend distribution they receive from the company. So the same income is taxed twice. But, there is a way around it…

Master Limited Partnerships, or MLPs, are nearly identical to royalty income trusts. The only difference between them is double taxation.

Regular trusts must pay taxes on income before it is distributed to shareholders. Those shareholders also have to pay taxes on the already-taxed income when they receive it. MLPs, on the

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In bull markets, investors sometimes use a stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends,' which is the technique of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at approximately the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique usually only works in bull markets.If you are interested in buying dividends, there are several stocks in several different sectors and industries to choose from. In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another month.All of the following stocks have market caps over $500 million, and yields over 3%. NuStar GP Holdings, LLC (NSH) is going ex-dividend on 11/3/2008. The stock has a PE of 17 ...