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Daily Archives: August 11, 2008

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Short Sellers: Split Decision On Financials, And Bailing Out Of Tech (WM)(WFC)(WB)(BAC)(JPM)(MER)(FRE)(FNM)(MSFT)(QCOM)(DELL)(BRCM)(KFT)(GM)(AMR)

Posted: August 11, 2008 at 10:00 pm

Shorts sellers suffered from a lack of conviction on the direction of financial stocks in the period that ended July 31. They were clear that betting against tech was no ...
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Blue Chip Economists Too Optimistic, Again

Posted: August 11, 2008 at 9:27 pm

Economists think that growth of the US GDP will continue to slow into the second half of the year and then into 2009. Their opinions are too upbeat.The monthly poll ...
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JP Morgan (JPM) Balance Sheet Takes Another Haircut

Posted: August 11, 2008 at 9:15 pm

Every month, Wall St. hopes that bank write-downs will slow or stop and every month matters seem to get worse.It looks like July will turn out to be no exception ...
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Cuomo Crushes Morgan Stanley (MS)

Posted: August 11, 2008 at 9:05 pm

Morgan Stanley (MS) thought it could pull a "monkey see, monkey do" act with NY State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. The investment house offered to buy back $4.5 billion in ...
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Vegas Odds: Another Large Financial Firm Will Fail (LEH)(WB)(WM)

Posted: August 11, 2008 at 8:51 pm

Bear Stearns was not the end of it. Institutional investors think at least one more large firm will fail, probably over the next six months. Although those surveyed did not ...
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Comments From Capstone Turbine’s Q&A and Conference Call (CPST)

Posted: August 11, 2008 at 4:57 pm

After the Capstone Turbine Corp. (NASDAQ: CPST) earnings report, we listened to the conference call and the question and answer session from analysts to get a better handle on the ...
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Capstone Turbine Results A Coin Toss On The Surface (CPST)

Posted: August 11, 2008 at 3:59 pm

Capstone Turbine Corporation (NASDAQ:CPST) has posted its quarterly results, and traders on Wall Street are somehwat mixed on the data.  If traders focus merely on the results in the quarter ...
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Cuomo Goes After Wachovia (WB)

Posted: August 11, 2008 at 3:14 pm

NY Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wants blood from the banks that marketed auction-rate securities but have not made settlements with him. In his mind, Wachovia (WB), Morgan Stanley (MS), and ...
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The 52-Week Low Club 8/11/2008 (SIRF)(CDE)(AU)(BWTR)

Posted: August 11, 2008 at 2:47 pm

Coeur d'Alene Mines (CDE) Faces bad earnings and falling  metals prices. Drops to $1.69 from 52-week high of $5.18.Anglogold Ashanti (AU) Metals stocks down. Slips to $25.68 against 52-week high ...
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Toyota (TM): Exporting From America? (GM)(F)

Posted: August 11, 2008 at 1:49 pm

It is a Category 5 irony that Toyota (TM) may be faced with exporting cars it makes in the US to other countries. It initially conquered the small car market ...
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Does It Matter If Content Is Still King (TWX)(GOOG)??

Posted: August 11, 2008 at 12:58 pm

Whenever analysts say "content is king," people often visualize Mel Brooks in "History of the World Part 1" shouting "it's good to be the king." A more accurate picture is ...
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Capstone Turbine Investors Brace For Earnings (CPST)

Posted: August 11, 2008 at 11:28 am

Capstone Turbine Corp. (NASDAQ: CPST) is set to report earnings after the close today.  Once again we caution that with many analysts new in covering this stock and with the ...
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24/7 Wall St. Day Trading Alerts (MSFT)(SIRI)

Posted: August 11, 2008 at 10:25 am

Several stocks made big moves today and substantial moves in volume.Included in equity and options action were Sirius (SIRI) and Microsoft (MSFT) (more...) ...
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RIM (RIMM) Gains Big Market Share In US

Posted: August 11, 2008 at 9:45 am

Motorola (MOT) kept its lead in US market share by holding 25.8% of the country's cellular phone business. That was hardly the big story.Research-In-Motion (RIMM), maker of the Blackberry, was ...
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Bargain Shoppers Driving TJX In More Ways Than One (TJX)

Posted: August 11, 2008 at 9:17 am

The soft economy is actually driving some retail winners, and it isn't really the old analogy of just the wealthy doing well.  The TJX Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TJX) is putting ...
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