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Monthly Archives: April 2009

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Determining When Higher Rates Are Coming

Posted: April 30, 2009 at 2:01 pm

This week's FOMC statement and 'less-bad' recent economic data brought up an interesting notion now that the Federal Reserve seems to be at least a bit less negative on the ...
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Apple (AAPL) iPhone Thrashes Competition In Customer Satisfaction

Posted: April 30, 2009 at 12:07 pm

The evidence keeps mounting that competing with the Apple (AAPL) iPhone is a losing game. According to the new JD Power survey of customer satisfaction among smartphone owners, the iPhone ...
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Public Companies To Benefit From DigitalGlobe IPO (DGI, MS, OZM, ORB)

Posted: April 30, 2009 at 12:05 pm

DigitalGlobe, Inc. may be the next high tech initial public offering, and it looks like several public companies will stand to benefit from it.  This is a high-resolution satellite image ...
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Goverment Says Chrysler Bankruptcy Will Be Easy, Pigs Also Fly

Posted: April 30, 2009 at 11:33 am

The Administration is talking like it has the judge who will preside over the Chrysler Chapter 11 in its pocket. Obama recently made the comment that "it will be a quick trip ...
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As Hulu Picks Up Steam, Disney (DIS) Climbs On Board (GOOG)(NWS)(GE)

Posted: April 30, 2009 at 10:49 am

Hulu, the large premium video site owned by GE's (GE) NBC Universal, News Corp. and Providence Equity Partners, is growing faster than most analysts expected. According to comScore, Hulu had more ...
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Pandemic Winners and Losers

Posted: April 30, 2009 at 9:58 am

Swine flu can be both misfortune and opportunity. By Martha C. White of The Big Money The outbreak of the H1N1 influenza strain (otherwise known as the ickier-sounding "swine flu") ...
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Gold Miners Struggling with Costs, Gold Prices (NEM, ABX, GDX)

Posted: April 30, 2009 at 9:15 am

Lower prices for copper and gold hit Newmont Mining Corp. (NYSE:NEM) hard in the first quarter of 2009. Barrick Gold Corp. (NYSE: ABX) is also getting hit after its report, ...
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First Solar Moves Closer To The Double (FSLR, TAN, SPWRA, ESLR)

Posted: April 30, 2009 at 8:43 am

Maybe there's some life left in the solar industry after all. First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR) reported EPS for the first quarter of 2009 of $1.99, blowing past estimates of $1.50 ...
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Implosion Alert: SEQUENOM, Lessons of Destroyed Credibility (SQNM)

Posted: April 30, 2009 at 8:33 am

SEQUENOM, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM) looks like the newest implosion of a hopeful company.  The company was supposed to have the Holy Grail for detection of Down syndrome.  After yesterday's close, ...
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Motorola (MOT) Stays Crippled

Posted: April 30, 2009 at 8:01 am

Motorola (MOT), the cult stock of losers and former target of Carl Icahn's wrath, posted poor earnings yet again. For the first quarter, revenue at the handset and telecom equipment ...
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Exxon Sees Wrath of Low Oil Prices (XOM)

Posted: April 30, 2009 at 7:58 am

Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) got to see exactly what the impact of lower oil prices does to the top-line.  The company posted earnings of $0.92 EPS, which is down from ...
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Power Generation Results Mixed (D, XEL, NRG, EXC, RRI)

Posted: April 30, 2009 at 7:48 am

Three large electric utilities reported earnings this morning, and the results are could be better, but they could also be worse.  Dominion Resources, Inc. (NYSE:D) and NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NRG) ...
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The Jobless Becoming Larger Than Any Standing Army

Posted: April 30, 2009 at 7:42 am

The change in weekly jobless claims came in at 631,000 for this last week.  That is a drop of 14,000, but that also comes after a revision of the week ...
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When Trade Isn’t Free, Neither Are Our Work Choices

Posted: April 30, 2009 at 7:19 am

By John Tamny of RealClearMarkets "Starvation, pauperism, and insufficient supply can only be removed from the masses by increasing the quantity to be divided among the masses."Anti-Corn Law League, "A ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BHP, COST, DRIV, GT, PX, PZN, RAI, ROK, VIP, VMC)

Posted: April 30, 2009 at 6:53 am

These are ten of the top analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen from Wall Street early this Thursday morning: BHP Billiton (BHP) Started as Outperform at RBC. Costco (COST) ...
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