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Monthly Archives: April 2009

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VW No.1 Car Company Worldwide? An Industry Where It Does Not Matter

Posted: April 17, 2009 at 4:49 am

VW may have passed Toyota (TM) as the world's No.1 car company just as Toyota passed GM (GM) a year ago. The companies all operate in an industry where being ...
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The Battle For What’s Left Of GM Gets Meaner

Posted: April 17, 2009 at 4:17 am

The engagement has become hand-to-hand as the fight to see who will make it out of the rubble of the GM (GM) restructuring comes to a close. The most recent ...
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Google (GOOG): The Economy In A Tea Cup

Posted: April 17, 2009 at 4:11 am

When Google (GOOG) reported earnings, earnings which were extraordinary during a poor economic period, for the first quarter, the company’s chatty CEO Eric Schmidt said "Google had a good quarter ...
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Weekly Apple (AAPL) Headline Roundup: April 17

Posted: April 17, 2009 at 3:59 am

This was the week analysts stumbled over each other to raise their price targets on Apple prior to next Wednesday’s earnings report. Will this create a “sell the news” effect? ...
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Media Digest 4/17/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 17, 2009 at 2:57 am

According to Reuters, banks may be hard hit by the bankruptcy of General Growth (GGP) and future commercial real estate defaults. Reuters reports that VW may overtake Toyota (TM) as the ...
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Asia Markets An Europe Open 4/17/2009

Posted: April 17, 2009 at 2:22 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose 1.7% to 8,908. The Hang Seng was up 1% to 15,712. The Shanghai Composite fell 1.2% to 2,504. At the open in ...
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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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