Tony Romo No Longer Has A Hole In His Lung


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The Cowboys got good news about their starting quarterback today when a CT scan revealed that Tony Romo's punctured lung has healed.

This opens up the possibility that Romo could be back against the Redskins on Monday night, according to Calvin Watkins of ESPNDallas.com.

Romo has been showered with praise this week for gutting it out to lead his team to an overtime win over the 49ers last Sunday.

Though he hasn't practiced this week, his teammates expect him in there on Monday.

"I full expect him to play," backup QB Jon Kitna told ESPN.

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Debt Consolidation Is a Simple Plan

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In principle, the idea of debt consolidation is just what it seems. It brings together all the different debts into one big debt and reduces your monthly payments into one fixed monthly sum.

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Here's 1 Reason KB Home Looks Weak

Margins matter. The more KB Home (NYSE: KBH  ) keeps of each buck it earns in revenue, the more money it has to invest in growth, fund new strategic plans, or (gasp!) distribute to shareholders. Healthy margins often separate pretenders from the best stocks in the market.  That's why we check up on margins at least once a quarter in this series. I'm looking for the absolute numbers, comparisons to sector peers and competitors, and any trend that may tell me how strong KB Home's competitive position could be.

Here's the current margin snapshot for KB Home and some of its sector and industry peers and direct competitors.

Source: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's. TTM = trailing 12 months.

Unfortunately, that table doesn't tell us much about where KB Home has been, or where it's going. A company with rising gross and operating margins often fuels its growth by increasing demand for its products. If it sells more units while keeping costs in check, its profitability increases. Conversely, a company with gross margins that inch downward over time is often losing out to competition, and possibly engaging in a race to the bottom on prices. If it can't make up for this problem by cutting costs -- and most companies can't -- then both the business and its shares face a decidedly bleak outlook.

Of course, over the short term, the kind of economic shocks we recently experienced can drastically affect a company's profitability. That's why I like to look at five fiscal years' worth of margins, along with the results for the trailing 12 months (TTM), the last fiscal year, and last fiscal quarter (LFQ). You can't always reach a hard conclusion about your company's health, but you can better understand what to expect, and what to watch.

Here's the margin picture for KB Home over the past few years.

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Source: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's. Dollar amounts in millions. FY= fiscal year. TTM = trailing 12 months.

Source: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's. Dollar amounts in millions. FY= fiscal year. TTM = trailing 12 months.

Because of seasonality in some businesses, the numbers for the last period on the right -- the TTM figures -- aren't always comparable to the FY results preceding them. To compare quarterly margins to their prior-year levels, consult this chart.

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Source: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's. Dollar amounts in millions. FQ = fiscal quarter.

Source: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's. Dollar amounts in millions. FQ = fiscal quarter.

Here's how the stats break down:

  • Over the past five years, gross margin peaked at 22.4% and averaged 16.0%. Operating margin peaked at 10.4% and averaged 0.8%. Net margin peaked at 5.1% and averaged -10.3%.
  • TTM gross margin is 17.8%, 180 basis points better than the five-year average. TTM operating margin is 0.5%, 30 basis points worse than the five-year average. TTM net margin is -11.8%, 150 basis points worse than the five-year average.

With recent TTM operating margins below historical averages, KB Home has some work to do.

If you take the time to read past the headlines and crack a filing now and then, you're probably ahead of 95% of the market's individual investors. To stay ahead, learn more about how I use analysis like this to help me uncover the best returns in the stock market.  Got an opinion on the margins at KB Home? Let us know in the comments below.

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Moody?s Lowered Outlook Stokes AMR Liquidity Concerns

American Airlines showed modest gains midweek after tanking on Monday as Moody's lowered its outlook on American Airlines parent AMR Corp.'s unsecured debt to negative.

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ROB ARNOTT: We're In The Worst Depression Since The Great Depression


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Rob Arnott says we're in the worst depression since the Great Depression and the Fed may be making things worse.

Arnott, who oversees $80 billion at Research Affiliates, tells King World News:

When real interest rates are  2%-4% and inflation rates are 2%-4% you get a really nice peak where the average P/E ratio is north of 25 times earnings.  The interesting thing is both of these numbers are within the control of the Fed, the Fed can control the rate of inflation and tacitly can therefore control the real rate of interest.

Where are we now?  We have negative real interest rates.  Okay, that’s pretty alarming.  We also have inflation rates (if) correctly accounted, it’s probably in the 5%-7% range.  If inflation kicks up another 1% or 2%...This creates some fairly serious downside risk for equities if the Fed continues on it’s current path.

Unfortunately I think they will, unfortunately enabling bad behavior is what they do to try to avoid an economic downturn.  Well, the downturn is already here.  Absent deficit spending, we’re already mired in the worst depression since the Great Depression.

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GOP Debate Audience Boos Gay Soldier, Santorum Wants 'Sexual Activity' Out Of Military


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Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum was asked what whether he would re-institute the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy banning openly-gay service-members from the military, in the most shocking moment of the Fox News/Google Debate Thursday night.

The question, sent in by a gay soldier, challenged the GOP candidates on whether they would kick people like him out of the military. But before Santorum could answer, members of the audience booed the questioner, Stephen Hill, — who is currently deployed in Iraq.

When Santorum did reply, he decried "social engineering" in the military, then said “any type of sexual activity has absolutely no place in the military."

He added that he would reinstate the policy, but would not say what he would do with service-members who have disclosed their sexual orientation.

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Meanwhile, US Futures Are Rebounding

Network Security for the Finance Industry: FFIEC, GLBA, and Sarbanes-Oxley

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Financial institutions utilizing electronic information systems need to follow FFIEC, GLBA, and Sarbanes-Oxley regulations for network security. Here is some information about each.

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