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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (ARAY, AZN, SAM, BSX, CNX, MLM, TER, TWX)

Posted: January 30, 2009 at 7:55 am

These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive calls we have seen on Wall Street this Friday morning:Accuray (ARAY) Raised to Buy at Piper Jaffray.AstraZeneca (AZN) Raised ...
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When No One Is Shipping Goods, No One Is Buying Them

Posted: January 30, 2009 at 6:28 am

One of the largely hidden signs of the progress of the recession is whether goods are being shipped from one city to another and from one country to another. What ...
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Trading Cash For Old Cars, Then Dumping Them In Holes

Posted: January 30, 2009 at 6:15 am

The auto industry and government have floated a few ideas to jumpstart car sales. Among these are subsidizing low cost car loans. Another is to pay car companies a piece ...
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The Bank Repair Plan: Neither Fish Nor Fowl

Posted: January 30, 2009 at 6:02 am

The Administration is looking at a hybrid plan to save the nation's banks. It world involve buying some toxic assets from the firms and putting them into a "bad bank." ...
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NEC Cuts 20,000 Jobs

Posted: January 30, 2009 at 5:41 am

As the global recession hits the electronics industry, NEC has decided to fire 20,000 people worldwide.According to The Wall Street Journal, "Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp. says it plans to ...
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Dell (DELL): A Phone Is Not A PC (HPQ)(SNE)(AAPL)(T)(VZ)(VOD)(NOK)(RIMM)

Posted: January 30, 2009 at 5:35 am

Over the last two years, in the PC business Michael Dell has been beaten like a rented mule. His company continues to lose market share particularly in the US.Industry analysts ...
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How The Government Missed All Those Wall St. Bonuses

Posted: January 30, 2009 at 5:13 am

There is a scene in the film classic "Casablanca" when Captain Renault, the head of the local police, finds out that there is gambling going on in the cafe owned ...
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Media Digest 1/30/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 30, 2009 at 4:01 am

According to Reuters, Republican may keep fighting Obama on the stimulus package.Reuters reports that Roche dropped its bid on Genentech (DNA) to $42 billion.Reuters writes that the Administration will release ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 1/30/2009

Posted: January 30, 2009 at 3:21 am

Markets in Asia were mixed.The Nikkei fell 3.1% to 7,994.The Heng Seng rose 1.8% to 13,385. Shanghai was closed.At the open in Europe, the FTSE was down .1% to 4,188, ...
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Amazon’s (AMZN) Advantage

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 9:06 pm

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon (AMZN), looks a bit mad. Stick thin and without a hair on his head he is both bug-eyed and frenetic. He has ...
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Whiting Petroleum Raises Cash (WLL)

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 7:38 pm

It looks like we have more offerings coming to market, or at least more and more are being contemplated.  Whiting Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: WLL) announced that its secondary offering for ...
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Can P&G Earnings Trump Colgate & Chattem? (PG, CL, CHTT)

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 5:39 pm

Traders and investors alike look for defensive stocks with certainty of earnings in hard times like these.  Tomorrow we will get earnings from Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG), and ...
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Geron Registers Small Number of Shares (GERN)

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 5:31 pm

Geron Corporation (NASDAQ: GERN) had a filing to sell shares that hit after teh close today.  Normally this would be a cause for concern since it had a huge run ...
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A More Cautious Broadcom (BRCM)

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 4:34 pm

Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM) has posted earnings, which may not be shocking if you have read the reports from its peers.  There was a net loss of -$0.32 on items ...
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Bezos Laughs To The Bank, Despite Caution (AMZN)

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 4:22 pm

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) posted earnings after already saying that this holiday season was a record.  Earnings for the Internet retailer were $0.52 EPS on $6.7 billion in revenue. Thomson ...
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