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Monthly Archives: January 2009

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Best Buy (BBY) Becomes A Vulture

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 8:22 am

Someone needs to take advantage of the collapse in retail real estate values. The prices for many locations are too good to be true.Best Buy (BBY) says it may get ...
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The False Death of Trickle-Down Economics, Part II

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 8:14 am

By John Tamny  RealClearMarketsLast October, this column addressed the notion of trickle-down economics. The aforementioned concept has to do with the basic belief that the economic gains made by the ...
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Top Pre-Market Analyst Downgrades (AFFX, APD, ACAS, AMLN, AMAT, AINV, CTXS, DRYS, XOM, IRBT, LRCX, NFLX, NSR, NHY, NYX, BTU, UPS)

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 7:57 am

These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades and cautious calls we are seeing this Thursday morning:Affymetrix (AFFX) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan.Air Products (APD) Cut to Neutral at ...
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Top Pre-Market Analyst Upgrades (BBY, CB, DVA, DFT, FCX, FMS, MWE, MCHP, WFT)

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 7:48 am

These are some of the top per-market analyst upgrades and positive calls we are seeing from Wall Street this Thursday morning:Best Buy (BBY) Raised to Overweight at Barclays.Chubb (CB) Raised ...
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Ford (F) Earnings: In Trouble No Matter What It Says

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 7:25 am

Ford (F) says it does not need any TARP money. Its fourth quarter earnings have to make Wall St. and Congress question that.The No.2 US car company reported a fourth ...
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The Car Rental Business Want Money To Buy Cars (CAR)(HTZ)(F)(GM)

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 6:41 am

Watching the land grab for TARP money becomes more entertaining every day.Now Hertz (HTZ) and Avis (CAR) want money to buy Ford (F) and GM (GM) cars.The plan makes a ...
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OPEC Ready To Take Crude Prices To The Mat

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 6:21 am

After months of false starts, OPEC claims it is ready to drop production far enough to pull more money out of the pockets of the oil-consuming nations.The cartel has been ...
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Ford (F): Shopping Volvo To China

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 6:02 am

The US car market does not need more companies competing for a shrinking pie. Ideally, it should have less. Ford (F) may inadvertently be letting China into the American race ...
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As China Lectures The West, Its Own Economic Statistics Are Almost Certainly Wrong

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 5:35 am

When China's Lazarus, Deng Xiaoping, finally became the absolute leader of the world's most populated nation in 1978, the country began its evolution from being an evil empire to becoming ...
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Lloyds Correction

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 5:09 am

In reference to your article yesterday perhaps you could correct the point about Lord Levene who is the Chairman of Lloyds of London (insurance) and not Lloyds TSB which you ...
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Media Digest 1/29/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 3:55 am

According to Reuters, Nasdaq will turn to Asia for much of its future growthReuters reports that the new bank bailout could cost as much as $2 trillion.Reuters writes that the ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 1/29/2009

Posted: January 29, 2009 at 3:21 am

Markets in Asia were mostly higher.The Nikkei rose 1.8% to 8,251.The Hang Seng was up 4.7% to 13,164.At the open in Europe, the FTSE was down .8% to 4,260, The ...
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Creating 50 Million Jobs

Posted: January 28, 2009 at 9:03 pm

The US economy lost 2.4 million jobs in the last four months of 2008. At the current rate of layoffs, another one million will be lost this month. The unemployment ...
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Turning Starbucks (SBUX) Into A Bar

Posted: January 28, 2009 at 8:16 pm

Starbucks (SBUX) posted bad earnings for last quarter.  Over the last 2 years Starbucks expanded extensively, refusing to recognize that there was a limit to the number of people who ...
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The Game Lost, Robert Rubin Wants To Move Goal Posts

Posted: January 28, 2009 at 5:18 pm

Robert Rubin, former Goldman Sachs (GS) chief, Treasury chief, and lead director at Citigroup (C) should have been flying to Washington once a week last year. He could have thundered ...
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