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Daily Archives: September 3, 2008

Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (CBT, PCYC, THX, X, UTX)

Posted: September 3, 2008 at 7:09 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades and positive calls we are seeing this Wednesday morning:Cabot Corp. (CBT) Raised to Buy at KeyBanc.Pharmacyclics (PCYC) Raised to Outperform at RBC.Tenet ...
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Top Pre-Market Analyst Downgrades (ADLR, MDRX, CRDN, CAG, IFF, MFE, TWX, VRTX, VOD, WWWW)

Posted: September 3, 2008 at 7:06 am

These are some of the top analyst downgrades and negative calls we are seeing this Wednesday morning:Adolor (ADLR) Cut to Neutral at Piper Jaffray.Allscripts (MDRX) Cut to Neutral at Piper ...
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Consumer Products Firms Join Banks At Screwing Customers

Posted: September 3, 2008 at 5:43 am

Banks have been taking money from the Fed for months. They can pledge dirty dishes and wall paper in exchange for real cash at low interest rates. The system has ...
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Saving The Consumer Electronics World: Apple (AAPL) Reinvents The iPod

Posted: September 3, 2008 at 5:18 am

The good thing about the Apple (AAPL) iPod is that the company has sold 160 million of them. That is the bad thing about the device as well. Apple ships ...
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Sovereign Funds Agree To Be Good, Or Not To Be Bad

Posted: September 3, 2008 at 5:02 am

After months of haggling with governments in the US and Europe along with IMF officials. the world's largest sovereign funds have agreed that their investments in banks and corporations will ...
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Las Vegas Lock Of The Week: OPEC Will Cut Production

Posted: September 3, 2008 at 4:43 am

Almost everyone with any schooling in the matter thinks that oil demand is dropping as the global economy slows. Hurricanes might take out some production, but that would be temporary ...
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Wall St.’s Root Canal: Watching The Sale Of Lehman (LEH)

Posted: September 3, 2008 at 4:34 am

Drilling into the jaw bone without Novocaine. The competition to maybe buy or maybe not buy Lehman (LEH) picks up a new angle everyday. The latest is a report by ...
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Media Diges 9/3/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 3, 2008 at 2:55 am

According to Reuters, oil fell another $1 to $109.Reuters writes that Coca-Cola (KO) will pay $2.5 billion for Chinese juice maker Huiyuan,Reuters writes that Google (GOOG) believes the its new ...
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Asia Markets 9/3/3008

Posted: September 3, 2008 at 2:26 am

Markets in Asia were mixed.The Nikkei rose .6% to 12,690. Mitsubishi Corp lost 4.6% to 2695.The Hang Seng fell 1.8% to 20,661. China Huiyuan moved up on Coca-Cola bid newsThe ...
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