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Daily Archives: July 18, 2008

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52-Week Low Club (AYE, AXL, APL, AUO, CHB, CMLS, GAP, MAC, MIR, RRI, SGLP, SWY, VRTU)

Posted: July 18, 2008 at 2:29 pm

Its Friday, and despite a fairly stable market today there were of course many 52-week lows.  Some look like a mid-city explosion from news, and some are just the normal ...
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Will Apple Avoid Tech Earnings Woes? (AAPL)

Posted: July 18, 2008 at 2:00 pm

Investors holding Apple Inc. (NASDAQ; AAPL) and traders alike are all eagerly going to be waiting for Monday's (July 21) earnings release after the close.  We would warn you ahead ...
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Economy Too Bad For Funerals? (SCI, CSV, STEI)

Posted: July 18, 2008 at 1:11 pm

If you follow the death care industry, the one name you probably know is Service Corp. International (NYSE: SCI).  There is a second tier small player that many haven't heard ...
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Sirius/XM Nearing Final Hurdles (SIRI, XMSR)

Posted: July 18, 2008 at 8:00 am

Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: XMSR) are both trading higher pre-market on reports that the last FCC commissioner will back the merger if ...
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Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (AVR, BLL, CE, ETR, HCP, HR, MRK, PTNR, PTEN, UAUA, VSE)

Posted: July 18, 2008 at 6:48 am

These are not all of the upgrades or positive analyst calls seen this morning but these are some of the top calls seen this Friday morning:Aventine Renewable (NYSE: AVR) Raised ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (BBY, KO, EBAY, GILD, IGT, MAC, SUN, TSO, VRTU)

Posted: July 18, 2008 at 6:46 am

These are not all of the Downgrades or negative analyst calls seen this morning but these are some of the top calls seen this Friday morning:Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) Cut ...
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Emerging Markets May Be Kings Of Inflation

Posted: July 18, 2008 at 6:07 am

The IMF is worried to death that emerging markets are facing substantial inflation and are doing nothing about it. If the agency is right, some of the most promising economies ...
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Freddie Mac’s (FRE) New Stock Sales, A Knife In Shareholder Hearts

Posted: July 18, 2008 at 5:40 am

It now appears that Freddie Mac (FRE) will raise about $10 billion. The only trouble with that is that its current market cap is only $6 billion. For shareholders, the ...
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Merrill Lynch (MER) And Citigroup (C) Move To The Bottom Tier Of US Financial Firms

Posted: July 18, 2008 at 5:20 am

At the start of the year, many Wall St. analysts and much of the media give the impression that the current financial crisis would pull down all large US banks ...
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Google (GOOG): Once Goliath, Now Ordinary

Posted: July 18, 2008 at 4:45 am

Google's (GOOG) earnings disappointed Wall St. and pushed the stock down nearly 8%, but the message from the numbers is more profound than a little shortfall. Google's net was up ...
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Starbucks Releases List Of 600 Stores To Be Shut, A Tombstone For Employees

Posted: July 18, 2008 at 4:04 am

Starbucks (SBUX) founder and CEO Howard Schultz had his company release the list of 600 stores that coffee chain would close. It is a tombstone for the 12,000 company employees ...
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Media Digest 7/18/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 18, 2008 at 2:44 am

According to Reuters, analysts looking at results from Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), and IBM (IBM) are cautiously optimistic about upcoming tech earnings.Reuters writes that Merrill Lynch (MER) posted a loss ...
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