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Daily Archives: February 23, 2009

Analysts Up & Down The Oil Patch (BP, COP, XOM, RDS.A, STO, TOT)

Posted: February 23, 2009 at 9:14 am

We have actually seen a lot of analyst calls in the oil patch this morning.  Some are conflicting against each other as you will see. BP plc (NYSE: BP) Started ...
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Garmin’s Compass (GRMN)

Posted: February 23, 2009 at 8:42 am

Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) is the GPS device market's dominant player, at least here in the U.S.  Yet the stock and the company have been in trouble for some time.  ...
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Japan’s Two Lost Decades Offer Lessons for Modern U.S.

Posted: February 23, 2009 at 8:11 am

John Tamny, RealClearMarkets After hitting an all-time high of 39,000 in 1989, Japan's Nikkei average has mostly fallen since. At present, it sits at 7,969, an ugly drop of 79% ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (T, DRYS, XOM, ITT, MOT, VZ, HBAN, RF, WMB, ZION)

Posted: February 23, 2009 at 7:29 am

These are ten of the top analyst upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street this Monday morning with more than two hours until the market opens: AT&T (T) Raised to Buy ...
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Cutting The Deficit While Stimulating The Economy?

Posted: February 23, 2009 at 6:33 am

It is a noble idea, but it probably will not work. The President aims to cut the deficit in half by 2013. To accomplish this, he plans to take out of the ...
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Getting A Trojan Horse Inside The Banks

Posted: February 23, 2009 at 6:05 am

The federal government gets extra points for being devious. It plans to begin to take over large banks by giving them money and using the capital they have already invested ...
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The Twenty Five Most Valuable Blogs

Posted: February 23, 2009 at 5:32 am

It is extremely difficult to put accurate financial values on blogs. Almost all of them are private companies.  Some do raise VC money and those sums can be used as ...
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Bailout Funds For The News Industry

Posted: February 23, 2009 at 5:18 am

One of the oldest newspaper chains, Journal Register, went bankrupt late last week. It had too much debt and too little operating income. The daily newspapers in Philadelphia have also ...
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Why Yahoo! (YHOO) Doesn’t Matter

Posted: February 23, 2009 at 5:11 am

Every time there is news about the internet portal Yahoo! (YHOO), it makes the front pages. The only story about Yahoo, however, that deserved attention was the monstrous violation of ...
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Eastern Europe Throws Another Anchor Around the EU’s Neck

Posted: February 23, 2009 at 5:04 am

The deterioration of Eastern European economies poses a major threat to the Western European financial system.  During the boom years leading up to the financial crisis Western European banks were ...
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Media Digest 2/13/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 23, 2009 at 3:53 am

According to Reuters, the US government may take a 40% interest in Citigroup (C). Reuters reports that the Treasury is considering funding options for Chrysler and GM (GM). Reuters reports ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 2/23/2009

Posted: February 23, 2009 at 3:20 am

Most markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei fell .5% to 7,376. The Hang Seng was up 4% to 13,208. The Shanghai Composite moved up by 6% to 2,306 At ...
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