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Daily Archives: October 13, 2008

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As Recession Spreads, Small Businesses Start To Cut Jobs

Posted: October 13, 2008 at 7:10 pm

The credit crisis has been so severe that even the largest companies  in the US have had trouble getting access to the capital markets. Firms as large as GM (GM), ...
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FDIC To Insure New Senior Bank Debt: Inviting The Sovereign Funds To Dinner (MER)(C)

Posted: October 13, 2008 at 6:50 pm

Many of the world's largest sovereign funds believe that they were taken to the cleaners earlier this year when they dumped billions of dollars into large US financial companies like ...
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Government To Buy Pieces Of Nine Large Banks?

Posted: October 13, 2008 at 6:29 pm

The US Treasury is apparently ready to buy significant stakes in nine of the largest financial firms in America. The trouble with the report is that no one knows for ...
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Burlington Northern: Warren Buffett Synthetic Stake Addition (BNI, BRK-A)

Posted: October 13, 2008 at 3:51 pm

There was an interesting Form 4 filed today with the SEC.  Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A) has artificially added to his holdings of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. (NYSE: ...
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The 52-Week Low Club (AFFX)(PIR)(AXL)

Posted: October 13, 2008 at 2:43 pm

American Axle (AXL) S&P downgrade due to big customer GM (GM) cutting production. Drops to $2.61 from 52-week high of $28.11.Pier 1 (PIR) Analyst dowgrade due to weak same-store sales. ...
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Why So Many Mergers Are Failing (WMI, RSG, AW, VSH, IRF, DBD, UTX, SNDK)

Posted: October 13, 2008 at 1:05 pm

Back in normal economic times and back when private equity was king, Mondays were often referred to as "Merger Monday" because mergers would be announced at the start of the ...
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Wells Fargo Looking More and More Like The Old Citigroup Model (WFC, WB, C)

Posted: October 13, 2008 at 11:52 am

Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) is the latest of the banking giants to look like the old Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) business model.  This became the case with the ...
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AmTech’s Top Fundamental Technology Stocks (CNQR, MELI, MFE, MPWR, QCOM, RIMM, VRSN)

Posted: October 13, 2008 at 10:11 am

American Technology Research has issued a research report going into earnings season called "Our Best Dozen Fundamental Picks."  AmTech believes investors already expect a disaster but that the current business ...
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Microsoft (MSFT): The Redmond Nation Turns Toward Sanity

Posted: October 13, 2008 at 9:53 am

At the coroner's inquest about the dead deal for Microsoft (MSFT) to buy Yahoo! (YHOO) it became clear the Redmond got the best of it. For reasons which investors are ...
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AmTech’s Favorite Defense & Infrastructure Fundamental Picks (FLR, LMT)

Posted: October 13, 2008 at 9:52 am

There is an interesting report from research team over at American Technology Research called "Our Best Dozen Fundamental Picks" as earnings season is upon us.   The research firm noted that ...
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AmTech Issues Best Fundamental Alternative Energy Picks (ENER, FSLR, FSYS)

Posted: October 13, 2008 at 9:43 am

The research team over at American Technology Research has issued a report called "Our Best Dozen Fundamental Picks" going into earnings season.  The research firm notes that investors are already ...
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Earnings Confessions Starting (AFFX, BEAV, COHR, CONN, NTY, ORBK)

Posted: October 13, 2008 at 8:06 am

As we are entering earnings season, we are also starting to get "confession season" where companies begin issuing updates ahead of their formal earnings.  Some of these will make some ...
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Mitsubishi UFJ Closes Morgan Stanley (MS) Deal

Posted: October 13, 2008 at 7:38 am

According to The Wall Street Journal, "Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group closed a $9 billion investment in Morgan Stanley that gives MUFG a 21% interest. Under revised terms, MUFG has acquired ...
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Yahoo! (YHOO) Deal For AOL (TWX) Done?

Posted: October 13, 2008 at 6:43 am

The long-rumored Time Warner (TWX) deal to merge AOL into Yahoo! (YHOO) is nearly done, according to Time Warner insiders.The deal should be difficult to do, but TWX CEO Jeff ...
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Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (ANN, CVC, COF, CELG, GME, PPDI, STJ, STI, THQI, WOOF, WU)

Posted: October 13, 2008 at 6:18 am

These are some of the many research upgrades we have seen from Wall Street analysts this Monday morning with more than two hours to the open:Ann Taylor (ANN) Raised to ...
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