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Daily Archives: April 16, 2009

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Direxion Launches FAS/FAZ-Like ETFs For T-Bonds (FAS, FAZ, TYD, TYO, TMF, TMV)

Posted: April 16, 2009 at 5:29 pm

Direxion is at it again with triple-leverage ETFs.  If you love trading the financial stocks for triple leverage via the Direxion Financial Bull 3X Shares (NYSE: FAS) or shorting them ...
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GE Full Earnings Primer (GE)

Posted: April 16, 2009 at 4:16 pm

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) is on deck for earnings Friday morning.  While the whole market has been hanging on to the financial stocks, GE has been trading like a ...
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Google Slides Past Gatekeepers (GOOG)

Posted: April 16, 2009 at 3:13 pm

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is out with its first quarter earnings report. The search and online ad giant posted earnings at $5.16 EPS and $4.07 billion in ex-TAC revenues.  Estimates ...
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Google’s Earnings Controversy (GOOG, YHOO, BIDU)

Posted: April 16, 2009 at 1:14 pm

This afternoon's earnings report from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is perhaps one of the most anticipated earnings releases so far this earnings season for Q1-2009.  Google could steer almost every ...
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Best Performing Sectors This Week: Cancer Stocks, Home Furnishing, Aircraft Leasing

Posted: April 16, 2009 at 12:07 pm

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Regions Claims Profitability, Slips A Mickey To Bears (RF)

Posted: April 16, 2009 at 10:55 am

Regions Financial Corp. (NYSE: RF) filed its annual meeting presentation this morning in an SEC filing, and in that filing, C. Dowd Ritter, Chairman, President and CEO, announced that Regions ...
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Introducing the Tarp-o-Meter

Posted: April 16, 2009 at 10:08 am

Keeping track of who’s paying back. By Gabriel Beltrone and Natalie Matthews of The Big Money Ever drive by your local church or United Way office and see one of ...
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Buffett Housing Play: Pay Mortgage If You Lose Your Job (BRK-A)

Posted: April 16, 2009 at 9:53 am

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) is known for investing in and owning many businesses which Warren Buffett believes or believed had a time horizon of "forever" even if they closed ...
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Kinder Morgan And Broader LP Distribution Conundrum (KMP, EPD, ENB, BSR)

Posted: April 16, 2009 at 9:33 am

There could be some trouble ahead in at least some of the entities in the pipeline business and the practice of distributions from LP's if you look at operating numbers ...
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Sunoco and Holly, Tulsa Refinery Hot Potato (SUN, HOC)

Posted: April 16, 2009 at 8:41 am

Sunoco, Inc. (NYSE: SUN) has signed a definitive agreement with a subsidiary of Holly Corporation (NYSE: HOC) to sell Holly its 85,000 barrel/day refinery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for $65 million. ...
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Bearish Dendreon (DNDN) Analyst Throws In The Towel, Upgrades to Hold

Posted: April 16, 2009 at 8:35 am

The bearish Dendreon (Nasdaq: DNDN) analyst at Brean Murray is throwing in the towel and turning slightly more bullish. The firm upgraded the stock from Sell to Hold, following this ...
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Yingli Taking the Money (YGE)

Posted: April 16, 2009 at 8:29 am

Chinese solar panel maker Yingle Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE:YGE) has taken a loan of $50 million from a credit line established earlier this year with ADM Capital and ...
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AMR & Southwest Battle For Hindenburg Earnings (LUV, AMR)

Posted: April 16, 2009 at 8:14 am

Southwest Airlines Co, (NYSE: LUV) is getting to see some selling this morning after its earnings report.  Actually, that is after its losses.  Southwest is not used to this and ...
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Good News, Only Over 6 Million Jobless

Posted: April 16, 2009 at 7:44 am

There may be some good news on the jobless claims front.  We saw a drop of 53,000 on the weekly jobless claims.  The new number was 'only' 610,000 for the ...
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Sun Ready To Resume Talks, Should IBM Even Listen? (JAVA, IBM, HPQ)

Posted: April 16, 2009 at 7:33 am

Sun Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) is seeing a bit of excitement this morning on word that it is ready to resume talks with IBM (NYSE: IBM).  We have been under ...
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