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Monthly Archives: May 2008

Legislation and Risks To Natural Gas Development (CHK, WMB, XTO, OXY, APA, EP, DVN)

Posted: May 29, 2008 at 10:31 am

The American Exploration and Production Council (AXPC) today released a study by Wood Mackenzie, an energy consulting firm, claiming that costs to the natural gas industry associated with the pending ...
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Rating The Online Financial Sections At The Top 25 Newspapers

Posted: May 29, 2008 at 10:07 am

The war for newspapers to stay profitable, and, perhaps long-term, to stay viable has become a race between the fall-off in their print advertising and the increase of their online ...
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A Dell (DELL) Buy-Out Of Sun (JAVA): Not Likely

Posted: May 29, 2008 at 9:12 am

There have been rumors that Dell (DELL) may feel it needs to do something with Sun (JAVA), now that Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) has cut a deal to buy EDS (EDS).Dell may ...
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Claymore Converts Closed-End Fund to ETF (RYJ)

Posted: May 29, 2008 at 8:26 am

Claymore Advisors, LLC has announced that the Board of Trustees of the Claymore/Raymond James SB-1 Equity Fund (NYSE: RYJ), a diversified closed-end mutual fund, along with the Board of Trustees ...
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Premier Exhibitions Resolves NY A.G. Inquiry (PRXI)

Posted: May 29, 2008 at 7:40 am

Premier Exhibitions Inc. (NASDAQ: PRXI) has resolved its Attorney General inquiry with the State of New York.  This inquiry was a significant overhang on the company, which has been seen ...
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Sears Earnings Smear (SHLD)

Posted: May 29, 2008 at 7:19 am

Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) posted a loss this morning, and it is being reflected in the shares.  The retail giant controlled by Eddie Lampert saw a $56 million loss, ...
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Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ALU, CHS, LONG, IFX, JNPR, MAR, MFA, NSC, SNDA, VVUS)

Posted: May 29, 2008 at 6:55 am

These are ten of the analyst calls we are focusing on this Thursday morning:Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE: ALU) Raised to Neutral from Sell at Goldman Sachs.Chico's FAS (NYSE: CHS) cut to Sell ...
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FCC: Broadband And Socialism

Posted: May 29, 2008 at 5:50 am

The FCC will have another of its interminable airwaves auctions soon. Telecom and tech companies will run in to buy spectrum so that they can send voice, video, data, and ...
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A Conspiracy To Keep Oil Prices High

Posted: May 29, 2008 at 5:39 am

The latest theory about high oil prices is that net exporters of oil are shipping less crude while the world needs more. According to The Wall Street Journal, "Fresh data ...
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Interest Rates: Chaos Theory Seizes Economic Policy

Posted: May 29, 2008 at 5:25 am

According to chaos theory systems that exhibit mathematical chaos are deterministic and are therefore orderly in some sense. Interest rates share something in common with that definition. Lowering interest rates ...
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GM (GM): Custer’s Last Stand

Posted: May 29, 2008 at 4:43 am

It is not 1876, and GM (GM) CEO Rick Wagoner does not have long blond hair. But, Mr. Wagoner is in mortal trouble and there may not be much he ...
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The Xbox, The Playstation, And The Holy Grail Of Search (YHOO)(MSFT)(GOOG)(SNE)

Posted: May 29, 2008 at 4:24 am

Several presentations at the All Things Digital conference this week made it clear that Microsoft (MSFT) has probably lost its appetite for buying Yahoo! (YHOO). According to Reuters, "Yahoo Inc ...
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Media Digest 5/29/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 29, 2008 at 3:03 am

According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) says Microsoft (MSFT) is not longer anxious for a merger.Reuters said Exxon (XOM) investors voted to keep the chairman and CEO jobs together.Reuters reports that ...
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Asia Markets 5/29/2008 (SNP)

Posted: May 29, 2008 at 2:38 am

Markets in Asia were mixed.The Nikkei rose 3% to 14,124. Nikon was up 5.1% to 3310. Mazda was up 7.3% to 513.The Hang Seng rose .2% to 24,285. China Petroleum ...
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Goldman Sachs SPAC IPO Killed (GS)

Posted: May 28, 2008 at 5:14 pm

Liberty Lane Acquisition Corp. was going to be the first real special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC or blank check company, from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS).  The key ...
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