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Daily Archives: April 1, 2009

Top Analyst Upgrades (ARRS, ASH, FCS, GME, ONNN, RTN, RVBD, VOD)

Posted: April 1, 2009 at 6:49 am

These are the top pre-market analyst upgrades or positive calls from Wall Street which we have seen early this Wednesday morning: Arris (ARRS) Started as Overweight at Thomas Weisel. Ashland ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (APOL, STD, BA, BRKR, CHU, CME, GR, PCP, STX)

Posted: April 1, 2009 at 6:46 am

These are the top pre-market analyst downgrades or negative calls we have seen from Wall Street this Wednesday morning: Apollo Group (APOL) Cut to Neutral at Baird. Banco Santander (STD) ...
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Internet Advertising: After First Quarter Disaster, Industry May Throw In The Towel On Q2

Posted: April 1, 2009 at 5:19 am

Internet display advertising had what may have been the worst quarter in its history. In the first 90 days of this year, by most measures, the cost-per-thousand that large websites ...
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GE’s (GE) Clever Move: Announce A Global Trend To Help Sales

Posted: April 1, 2009 at 5:00 am

About two years ago, GE (GE) began to talk about its "green" initiative and how important it was that businesses and governments begin to work on sustainable energy solutions to ...
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China’s 8% Growth Dream Is Gone

Posted: April 1, 2009 at 4:48 am

Earlier this year, China's prime minister said the country's GDP would be up 8% in 2009. He used the forum for making the prediction as an opportunity to press the ...
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Facebook Takes A Dive: Social Networks Never Had A Future

Posted: April 1, 2009 at 4:21 am

The business of having online sites with content created by amateurs to be viewed by other amateurs never had a reasonable chance of making money. The fact that at one ...
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As Google’s (GOOG) Growth Falters, Microsoft (MSFT) Has Chance To Regain Momentum

Posted: April 1, 2009 at 4:13 am

Most of the recent news about Google (GOOG) has been bad. Online advertising posted a slow fourth quarter. That unexpectedly included both display ads and search marketing which has made ...
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Russia pushing for higher crude prices

Posted: April 1, 2009 at 4:02 am

By Douglas A. McIntyre for Daily Finance Russia is one of the largest oil producing nations in the world. The falling price of crude has clearly hurt its economy, but ...
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Media Digest 4/1/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 1, 2009 at 3:02 am

According to Reuters, Obama demanded that the G-20 find solutions to the global financial crisis. Reuters reports that a bankruptcy for GM (GM) and Chrysler could be a long, drawn-out ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 4/1/2009

Posted: April 1, 2009 at 2:20 am

Markets in Asia were mostly higher. The Nikkei rose 3% to 8,352. The Hang Seng was up .2% to 13,597. The Shanghai Composite rose 1.5% to 2,408. At the open ...
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