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Nov 3, 2023 | 
parksandrecbusiness.com | Sandy Nichols Ward
A New Lease On Life From mid-April through September 2022, the park welcomed visitors in 13,809 vehicles to check out the park’s new look and feel. From spring 2021 to the dedication in June 2022, Phase I focused on the existing upper portion of the property’s former clubhouse area, parking lots, and maintenance building at a cost of $1,681,037. An extreme slope from the parking lot down to the former Wicked Woods Golf Course required new ADA-accessible trails.
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Nov 3, 2023 | 
prbplus.com | Sandy Nichols Ward
How a former golf course became the first veterans park in Geauga County, OhioAt the center of Geauga County, Ohio, along the main artery Route 44, lies a new park with more heart than most. Veterans Legacy Woods quickly gained recognition as the county’s 27th park and its first dedicated to U.S. veterans.
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May 21, 2023 | 
morningstar.com | Sandy Nichols Ward
In an uncertain economic environment, it can pay for investors to focus on companies that can weather any storm. You can find such high-quality companies by looking beyond the usual revenue and earnings numbers on income statements and focusing instead on cash statements. This can shape a better understanding of companies' financial might and stability. In a nutshell, the more a company can generate cash-and manage that cash wisely-the greater its quality.
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May 15, 2023 | 
morningstar.hk | Sandy Nichols Ward
In this uncertain economic environment, many strategists are advising clients to invest in “high-quality” companies in addition to defensive stocks, such as consumer staples, healthcare, and utilities, that provide essential goods and services. Dividend-paying stocks are also important. There can be a lot of overlaps between these safe-haven stocks.
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May 11, 2023 | 
morningstar.com.au | Sandy Nichols Ward
Apple (AAPL) is the world’s largest company. It’s also the world’s biggest cash machine, pumping out more than any of its mega-cap technology peers - or any other company for that matter. Operating cash flow totaled $28.6 billion in the latest fiscal second quarter compared with $24.4 billion at Microsoft (MSFT), $23.5 billion at Alphabet (GOOGL), and $13.9 billion at Meta Platforms (META). That leaves Apple with an unusual problem. What to do with all that cash?
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May 11, 2023 | 
morningstar.com | Sandy Nichols Ward |Lauren Solberg
Investors seem convinced that the Federal Reserve will pause the rate hike campaign that it's been on for over a year, removing one headwind from the stock and bond markets. But plenty remains murky about the outlook. The chief unknown: recession. But there are also uncertainties about the course corporate earnings will take.
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May 9, 2023 | 
morningstar.com | Sandy Nichols Ward
Apple AAPL has a problem that most of us would love: It has too much cash. Not only is the iPhone maker the world's largest company, it's also the world's biggest cash machine, pumping out more than any of its mega-cap technology peers or any other company for that matter. Operating cash flow totaled $28.6 billion in the latest fiscal second quarter compared with $24.4 billion at Microsoft MSFT, $23.5 billion at Alphabet GOOGL, and $13.9 billion at Meta Platforms META.
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May 2, 2023 | 
morningstar.hk | Sandy Nichols Ward
When it comes to interest-rate hikes, it’s not quite over yet. A quarterly uptick in a widely watched measure of wage inflation all but ensures the Federal Reserve Board will raise its benchmark federal-funds rate by a quarter of a point when officials sit down to meet this Tuesday and Wednesday. The Employment Cost Index released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Friday showed wages and salaries rising by 1.2% in the three-month period ended in March from the previous quarter.
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May 1, 2023 | 
morningstar.com | Sandy Nichols Ward
A rocky stock market and rising risks of recession usually don't make for a great time for a new stock to come to market. But it may be a different story for Kenvue, the consumer healthcare spinoff from Johnson & Johnson JNJ. Kenvue's IPO, which is expected to start trading on Friday under the symbol KVUE, offers investors access to a stable and profitable company with strong cash flows at a time when those characteristics are at a premium in the stock market.
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May 1, 2023 | 
morningstar.com.au | Sandy Nichols Ward
Financial markets are pricing in another pause by the Reserve Bank of Australia when it meets today, but when it comes to interest-rate hikes in the US, it’s not quite over yet. A quarterly uptick in a widely watched measure of wage inflation all but ensures the Federal Reserve Board will raise its benchmark federal-funds rate by a quarter of a point when officials sit down to meet this week.
