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Daily Archives: December 18, 2008

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Making Content Sites Profitable

Posted: December 18, 2008 at 8:58 am

A new report from ContentNext, which is available at its site, PaidContent.org, reviews the financial prospects of political and news sites.The first conclusion of the report is that being big ...
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Richard Bove Sounding More Like Meredith Whitney on Citi (C, GS, MS)

Posted: December 18, 2008 at 8:53 am

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) is getting a more "in-line" view from analyst and fan Dick Bove of Ladenburg Thalmann.  Bove is capitulating at least a bit with the admission that ...
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Auxilium Scores on Pfizer Pact (AUXL, PFE)

Posted: December 18, 2008 at 8:31 am

Auxilium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AUXL) is responding well in pre-market trading after the company signed an overseas commercialization agreement with Pfizer, Inc. (NYSE: PFE).  The pact covers Auxilium's Xiaflex, a ...
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Book Review: Russell Roberts’s ‘The Price of Everything’

Posted: December 18, 2008 at 8:09 am

By John Tamny  RealClearMarketsTake a look at the computer screen your eyes are presently (hopefully) fixated on, not to mention the computer mouse you used in order to click on ...
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Top Analyst Upgrade/Positive Calls (AACC, CYN, LLL, LTC, NTRS, PAR, TRMK, UHS)

Posted: December 18, 2008 at 7:24 am

These are some of the top analyst upgrades and positive calls we are seeing from Wall Street early this Thursday morning with more than two hours to the open:Asset Acceptance ...
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Pre-Market Analyst Downgrade/Negative Calls (AAPL, BK, BUCY, CCRT, EGO, JOYG, NOK, PALM, SAY)

Posted: December 18, 2008 at 7:20 am

These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades or cautious calls seen from Wall Street early this Thursday morning with more than two hours to the open:Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) ...
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The Age Of City Bankruptcies

Posted: December 18, 2008 at 6:17 am

The process of cities going bankrupt has already begun. One of Michigan's largest cities, Flint, is already in receivership. The state gets to help pay the bills. Several other large ...
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The Price Of Oil Will Rise

Posted: December 18, 2008 at 6:01 am

The amount of humiliation among OPEC oil ministers must be agonizing. Every time the cartel cuts supply, the price of crude drops like a rock. But, the ministers will not ...
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Wall St. Needs A Czar All Its Own (C)(AIG)(FNM)(FRE)

Posted: December 18, 2008 at 5:46 am

America is short on czars. The ones in charge of energy, the war on drugs, intellectual property, and, perhaps, cars are not enough.The one segment of the economy that has ...
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The Trouble With Merging GM (GM) And Chrysler

Posted: December 18, 2008 at 5:22 am

The latest big idea to help save the American auto industry is an old one--merge GM (GM) and Chrysler. It is a road the companies have been down before, but ...
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Media Digest 12/18/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 18, 2008 at 3:59 am

According to Reuters, Chrysler will idle its plant for a month to cut inventory and costs.Reuters reports that the SEC is under fire over the Madoff investigation.Reuters reports that Obama ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 12/18/2008

Posted: December 18, 2008 at 3:22 am

Markets in Asia were mostly higher.The Nikkei rose .6% to 8,867. Honda (HMC) dropped after cutting profit forecasts.The Hang Seng rose .1% to 14,474.The Shangai Composite moved up 2% to ...
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