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Daily Archives: April 24, 2009

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Just How Bad Are Things At Campbell Soup? (CPB)

After perusing the list of 52-week lows this afternoon, there was a surprising name: Campbell Soup Co, (NYSE: CPB).  Shares are trading down over 3% and south of $25.00 late ...
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Stress Test Criteria, Very Conservative

TARP, TALF, PPIP.  TBTF.  How many more acronyms can we have?  Today's Stress Test might as well just be called the "ST."  Technically, this is called the Supervisory Capital Assessment ...
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Are Lower Rig Counts Stabilizing? (BHI, OIL)

Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) has its weekly rig count out, and we are still losing rigs in the oil and gas sector.  Somehow our inventories keep building to near-record ...
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Moody’s Likes What It Sees at Comcast (CMCSA)

Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA) received a subtle yet rather large compliment from a ratings agency this morning.  Moody's raised its rating on the company's long-term senior unsecured debt further up ...
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Google (GOOG): A Big Android Push In Europe

Google's (GOOG) push in the US to sell handsets using its Android operating system is being hurt by the fact that its cellular partner is T-Mobile, a distant fourth in market share the America. Android ...
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The Tesla-Tata Road Race

Both automakers have the potential to become the car company of the future. By Matthew DeBord of The Big Money The automobile is down—in fact, it probably hasn't been this ...
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Homebuilder ETFs Run On Housing Data (XHB, ITB)

The new home sales data is showing a very mixed bag, with a bit of a positive twist to it. We are seeing a run up in the SPDR S&P ...
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Best Performing Sectors In Last Month: Hotel REITs, Home Furnishings, Car Rentals

Based on the TickerSpy index of major industry sectors, hotel REITs had the best performance of any group measured, up almost 60%.  At the head of the industry were Diamondrock ...
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Host Joins REITs Raising Cash (HST)

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: HST) has completed a secondary offering that raised some needed cash for the company.  The hotel-REIT priced a secondary offering of 66,000,000 shares of ...
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SunPower In the Shade (SPWRA, WFR, FSLR, LDK)

One of the stalwarts of the solar business, SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWRA), has reported an EPS loss of -$0.06 on revenues of $214 million for the 2009 first quarter. Analysts had ...
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Schlumberger Sort of Beats Low Expectations (SLB, HAL, WFT)

The world's largest oilfield services company, Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE:SLB), reported earnings this morning. The resemblance to the earnings reports from Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL) and Weatherford International Limited (NYSE: WFT) from ...
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March Durables & Revisions Bad Enough To Influence GDP Expectations

We have just seen the highly volatile Durable Goods numbers released this morning. The numbers from the Commerce Department came in at -0.8%.  This was a bit better than expectations ...
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R-I-M Loses Key Critic (RIMM)

Research in Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) is getting a boost this morning from an analyst upgrade.  The maker of the notorious Blackberry was raised at Citigroup with a new "Buy" ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMGN, CS, BEAT, DV, MAR, MSFT, RIMM, SPWRA, TOL)

These are among the top research calls and analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen early this Friday morning with over two hours until the open: Amgen (AMGN) Raised to ...
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Ford’s (F) Balance Sheet Play

Ford's (F) announced earnings, but it did not pitch its P&L. The star of the announcement, at least in the company's opinion, was its balance sheet. The No.2 US car ...
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