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Monthly Archives: March 2009

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Fear And Loathing In The Commercial Real Estate Industry

Posted: March 20, 2009 at 4:02 am

In most large American cities there are office buildings which sit half finished in their financial districts. There are still huge cranes next to some of them. If the construction ...
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AAPL Weekly Headline Roundup: March 16-20

Posted: March 20, 2009 at 3:52 am

Apple shares broke through $100 this week with charts suggesting there’s more upside to come. Here are other top Apple headlines aggregated from 24/7 Wall St. partner Apple Investor News: ...
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Media Digest 3/20/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: March 20, 2009 at 2:54 am

According to Reuters, the House passed a bill that would tax AIG's (AIG) and some other bonuses by 90%. Reuters reports that the US gave auto suppliers a $5 billion ...
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Asia Markets 3/20/2009

Posted: March 20, 2009 at 2:19 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei was closed for a holiday. The Hang Seng fell 1.9% to 12,878. The Shanghai Composite was up .7% to 2,281. Data from Reuters ...
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Oracle (ORCL) starts a new trend of tech dividends?

Posted: March 19, 2009 at 7:12 pm

By Douglas McIntyre for DailyFinance Oracle (ORCL) did two things yesterday: It beat Wall Street earnings forecasts, and it set its first dividend. The second action may be more important ...
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Buyout for More Efficient Solar Panels from National Semi (NSM)

Posted: March 19, 2009 at 3:50 pm

National Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: NSM) is making a push into solar via an acquisition.  The company has acquired Act Solar, Inc. to expand its portfolio of power optimization technologies along ...
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Palm Sees Revenue Slap (PALM)

Posted: March 19, 2009 at 3:26 pm

Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) posted its third quarter results and disclosed that it had a net loss of $98 million or -$0.89 EPS after items.  The loss on a non-GAAP ...
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Microsoft’s (MSFT) Ballmer Waits For Yahoo! (YHOO) To Lose Money, Then Move In For The Kill

Posted: March 19, 2009 at 2:03 pm

Microsoft's (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer is making a good show of trying to get Yahoo! (YHOO) to discuss selling its search business. The combination could give MSFT 30% of the ...
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Barrick Raises Cash (ABX)

Posted: March 19, 2009 at 12:54 pm

If you thought the corporate bond market spreads were going to keep issuers away, there has been a record amount of new issuances.  Today, Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE: ABX) announced ...
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Toll CEO Unloads Even More Stock (TOL, XHB)

Posted: March 19, 2009 at 11:39 am

Toll Brothers Inc. (NYSE: TOL) has submitted two different filings showing that CEO Robert Toll unloaded 1 million shares this week. (more...) ...
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The Reflation Trade Emerges, Again (USO, OIL, GLD, GDX, DBA)

Posted: March 19, 2009 at 9:36 am

Some good news in the markets today and the massive influx of future money from the Fed and Treasury has led to a substantial increase in both crude oil and ...
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Snapping up Volkswagen could be the smartest move in the car business

Posted: March 19, 2009 at 9:30 am

By Matthew DeBord from The Big Money The auto industry generates nothing these days that even remotely resembles good news. General Motors is teetering on the edge of official (as ...
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Leading Indicators Actually Lagging

Posted: March 19, 2009 at 9:17 am

The Conference Board has just released the "Leading Economic Indicators" for the month of February.  While these arguably don't really lead, there was another drop to -0.4% for February.  Both ...
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Alcoa Prices Offerings (AA)

Posted: March 19, 2009 at 8:39 am

Alcoa Inc. (NYSE:AA) has priced its offering of 150 million shares of common stock at $5.25/share. That represents a discount of about 23% to yesterday's closing price of $5.48/share.   At ...
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Is The Corning (GLW) News A ‘Green Shoot’?

Posted: March 19, 2009 at 8:32 am

Is today's Corning (NYSE: GLW) news one of the "green shoots" Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke was talking about? Corning said it now believes total glass volume for the first quarter ...
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