Your online Social Security Statement provides you with a yearly breakout down of your earnings record.
Each year you work, you add to your earnings record leading Social Security to automatically recalculate your benefits.
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For many married couples, that 50% spousal benefit is often much higher than what the lower-wage-earning spouse could collect based on his or her own earnings record.
There is a maximum family benefit that applies to the total benefits to you, your spouse, and your children that can be received on your earnings record.
James Mahaney, vice president of strategic initiatives at Prudential Financial, has published research on similar, but largely overlooked, strategies that work for retirees who can collect Social Security from the earnings record of a divorced or deceased spouse.
For the individual investors still looking to add oil-patch stocks to their portfolios, Apache has the solid production and resilient earnings track record to justify the accumulation of its shares in 2012.
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In the fourth quarter and full-year 2011, Allscripts had record bookings, accelerating revenue growth, strong earnings growth and record operating cash flow.
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These record earnings come from the growth in assets related to recent Fed policy.
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Wells Fargo ( WFC) posted record earnings in the third quarter, increasing 29% from the prior quarter.
Its competitor Six Flags ( SIX) also reported record earnings in 2011.
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The Mariinsky receives little government funding and it lost virtually all its foreign-exchange earnings (from record sales and foreign tours) in last year's Russian banking collapse.
Financial stocks are well off the lofty levels they reached earlier this summer, when a seemingly endless appetite for leveraged buyouts and other deal-making propelled record earnings.
Earnings were a record 48 cents per share, up 40% from 35 cents in the second quarter of 2010 and narrowly above the 46 cents analysts anticipated.
Microsoft says these earnings are a record for third-quarter revenue.
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Zavoico, senior life sciences analyst at investment research firm MLV, forecasts that the bioscan removal will enable Spectrum to post record earnings in the fiscal third quarter of 2012.
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Wall Street firms are showing record earnings.
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Bear has been notching record earnings along with fellow investment banks, but it is dwarfed in size by peers Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs and half the size of its closest rival, Lehman Brothers.
Attesting to the growing importance of emerging markets, DirecTV posted strong first quarter revenue and earnings beats on record subscriber growth in Latin America, sending its stock up to flirt with its all-time highs.
Record revenue, record earnings, blah blah blah.
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Our ability to do this is a testament to our diversified business model, which has allowed us to serve more customers and continue to grow capital while at the same time generating record earnings and providing our shareholders with more return on their investment.
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Rather than just re-establishing its subscriber and revenue growth rates, Netflix now will have to deliver like other mere mortal stocks and establish a new uninterrupted earnings growth momentum record going forward, a difficult feat for a well-managed company, which Netflix has proven not to be.
Bear has been notching record earnings along with fellow investment banks, but it is dwarfed in size by peers Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ), Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) and Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) and half the size of its closest rival, Lehman Brothers (nyse: LEH - news - people ).
We expect the company to record soft earnings, but most investors will watch for any cues on its outlook.
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Not all will get it: the new pay-out is expected to go only to farmers with a three-year record of earnings.
We expect the company to record soft earnings on weak pricing, but most investors will watch for any cues on its outlook.
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At the end of January, 2006, when Polycom announced record quarterly earnings, Khan made three hundred thousand dollars, and Galleon cleared at least twice that.
The company lauded its refining business, noting record yearly earnings and a fourth consecutive year of underlying growth, but acknowledged its weak performance in the fourth quarter.
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Still, even with the clouded short term earnings picture, investors should note that RRGB has a stellar record when it comes to earnings surprises.
The company predicted it will end the 2011 with continued record sales and earnings.
But the stock is still cheap, says Auer, as the company continues to post record sales and earnings results.
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