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As much as Jim Cramer wants to be negative about what’s happening in the market right now, he can’t!

Now that the Greek tragicomedy of the new government “threatening” to leave the Eurozone if it doesn’t get its way, has been postponed for a few weeks, if not months, we can go back to the biggest story involving Greece, one we first covered in October of 2014, when we said that Greece needs about €43 billion through the end of 2015 to cover its funding needs.

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It’s nice to get a dividend from a stock you own. But it’s even better to own shares in a company that keeps raising its dividend. Lorillard (LO), the third-biggest cigarette maker in the U.S., recently extended its streak of dividend hikes. Last week, the company raised its quarterly dividend by 7% to 66 cents a share — its seventh dividend increase since becoming a separate, publicly traded company in 2008.

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Even as the cost of living is falling, U.S. government securities that offer protection against higher inflation are rallying as investors see a glimmer of rising consumer prices on the horizon. The gap between five-year yields on Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities and comparable maturity U.S. debt, seen as a measure of inflation expectations over the life of the securities, widened the most in three weeks.

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Weight Watchers is planning to cut $100 million in expenses and posted an outlook for this year’s profits that fell far below Wall Street’s expectations.

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The nation’s largest health insurer is imposing tighter controls on its coverage for hysterectomies after more than a year of debate over a medical device that was found to spread hidden cancer in some women undergoing the procedure.
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Effective demand is extremely weak, probably tantamount to the later stages of the Great Depression, Alan Greenspan said.