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Daily Archives: March 5, 2009

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Top Analyst Upgrades (CCL, IAG, LAMR, LZ, OVTI, RCL, SIGM)

Posted: March 5, 2009 at 7:43 am

These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive calls from Wall Street we are seeing this Thursday morning with about two hours until the market opens: Carnival ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (ETN, BEN, GYMB, HL, LGCY, MAN, RHI, ROK)

Posted: March 5, 2009 at 7:39 am

These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades and negative calls we have seen from Wall Street this Thursday morning with about two hours until the open: Eaton (ETN) ...
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The “No News” File: GM (GM) May Not Make It

Posted: March 5, 2009 at 6:41 am

GM's (GM) auditors expressed doubt that the car company will remain a "going concern." Accountants often offer these opinions. They don't usually mean much. If GM gets $100 billion from the ...
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Changing The S&P 500 To The S&P 199

Posted: March 5, 2009 at 6:33 am

With the drop in stock prices there are a lot of companies that don't belong in the S&P 500. As a matter of fact, there may not be enough large ...
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Saving The PC Industry By Selling Computers To Farmers

Posted: March 5, 2009 at 6:18 am

Around the world, PC sales are dying. The global recession is causing consumers and businesses to defer purchases until their current machines break down. Their older computers have powerful enough ...
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Leaving Merrill’s Banker Alone To Enjoy Their Money

Posted: March 5, 2009 at 5:58 am

Andrew Cuomo spends most of his time running for the governor's job in New York State. In his spare time he acts as Attorney General and will investigate and prosecute ...
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YouTube Passes 100 Billion Views A Month And No One Cares

Posted: March 5, 2009 at 5:44 am

Google's (GOOG) huge video-sharing site YouTube drew enough people to have 100 billion videos viewed in January. The question is whether anyone in the media world, particularly the internet, TV, ...
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Trading Places: China And The US

Posted: March 5, 2009 at 5:25 am

It would not be fair to compare Mao Zedong to either President Bush or President Obama. Neither has swum the Yangtze River and neither was a rabid communist. Mao created ...
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It Was Inevitable: Ford (F) Can’t Dodge The Financial Bullet

Posted: March 5, 2009 at 5:17 am

There was always a sweet bit of fiction in the notion that Ford (F) was so much better financially than GM (GM) or Chrysler that it could weather the global ...
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Media Digest 3/5/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 5, 2009 at 3:59 am

According to Reuters, Ford (F) will launch a major financial restructuring. Reuters reports that the US is launching a $75 billion plan to help troubled holders of US mortgages. Reuters ...
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Asia Markets And European Open 3/5/2009

Posted: March 5, 2009 at 3:19 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose 2% to 7,433. The Hang Send fell .8% to 12.238. The Shanghai Composite moved up 1% to 2,221. In Europe, at the ...
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