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Daily Archives: July 15, 2008

Evergreen Solar Scores Another Major Contract (ESLR)

Posted: July 15, 2008 at 6:53 am

Evergreen Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESLR) has signed a new long-term sales contract of roughly $1.2 Billion with IBC SOLAR AG in Germany. This contract runs through 2013 and brings Evergreen's ...
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Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (EHTH, FFIV, FDRY, LEN, OXPS, SGP, TWTI)

Posted: July 15, 2008 at 6:38 am

These are some of the top upgrades or positive analyst calls we have seen this Tuesday morning in early pre-market trading hours:eHealth (NASDAQ: EHTH) Raised to Perform from Underperform at ...
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Intel’s Earnings: A Company Founded By A Pig Thief Gets Too Large

Posted: July 15, 2008 at 6:37 am

Robert Noyce, the creator of the big idea that became Intel (INTC), died in 1990 when he was 62.  He never saw the company make it to the big time, ...
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Top Pre-Market Analyst Downgrades (AIG, ASMI, T, KMB, MOT, NRGN, WB, WMI, WOR)

Posted: July 15, 2008 at 6:34 am

These are some of the top downgrades or negative analyst calls we have seen this Tuesday morning in early pre-market trading hours:AIG (NYSE: AIG) Cut to Market Perform from Outperform ...
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Financial Website June Traffic: Yahoo! (YHOO) And AOL Still Out Front

Posted: July 15, 2008 at 5:42 am

Statistics for June visitors and pageviews at financial websites showed Yahoo! (YHOO) Finance and AOL Money (TWX) well ahead of competitors based on comScore data. Yahoo! had 17.538 million unique ...
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Inflation In UK Spikes Up, US Likely To Look The Same

Posted: July 15, 2008 at 5:18 am

Inflation in the UK hit an annual rate of 3.8% and the price of the equivalent of a gallong of gas hit $8.50. According to the AP, "Inflation in Britain ...
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Lehman (LEH) Going Private?

Posted: July 15, 2008 at 5:08 am

Lehman (LEH) may find that the best way out of the painful drop in its stock is to go private. If the investment house is right and Wall St.'s perception ...
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Why Financial Stocks Will Continue To Fall (FNM)(FRE)(LEH)(MER)(UBS)(WB)

Posted: July 15, 2008 at 5:02 am

Yesterday, a number of bank and mortgage company stocks began the day up sharply, with Fannie Mae (FNM), Freddie Mac (FRE), and Lehman (LEH) out in front. By the end ...
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New Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox Competes With Loaf Of Bread

Posted: July 15, 2008 at 4:48 am

Microsoft (MSFT) has had its Xbox 360 in the market for over two years. The product is hardly mature. The current round of video game consoles which includes the Sony ...
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Citigroup (C); Pandit’s Pipe Dream

Posted: July 15, 2008 at 4:22 am

Citigroup's (C) CEO, Vikram Pandit, wasted the time of three dozen or so of his top executives. He took them on a retreat and laid out what he called “Rules ...
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Media Digest 7/15/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 15, 2008 at 2:59 am

According to Bloomberg, GM (GM) will announce a major restructuring including moving more production to small cars.Reuters reports that regional bank stocks were hit hard by liquidity concerns.Reuters writes that ...
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Asia Markets 7/15/2008 (LFC)(SNP)

Posted: July 15, 2008 at 2:33 am

Markets in Asia were sharply lower. The Nikkei fell 2% to 12,755. Sony (SNE) fell 1.4% to 4260. Toyoa (TM) fell 2.5% to 4680.The Hang Seng was down 3.9% to ...
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