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Monthly Archives: April 2009

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First Solar Shines Brighter in Nevada (FSLR, SRE)

Posted: April 15, 2009 at 8:38 am

First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR) has signed a deal with a division of Sempra Energy (NYSE:SRE) to build a 48-megawatt photovoltaic power plant that expands an existing 10-megawatt plant near Boulder ...
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Starbucks Gets Unwanted Sell Rating (SBUX, MCD)

Posted: April 15, 2009 at 8:22 am

Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) has performed rather well in the most recent 5-week stock market rally.  After all, shares hit a low of $7.06 last November and challenged the $8.00 ...
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Peabody Tanking Coal (BTU, KOL)

Posted: April 15, 2009 at 8:05 am

For the first quarter of 2009, Peabody Energy Corp. (NYSE:BTU) has reported EPS of $0.63 on revenue of $1.46 billion from 59.6 million tons of coal sold. Analysts estimates averaged ...
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CPI: Businesses Not Passing Savings Down To Consumers?

Posted: April 15, 2009 at 7:36 am

The reading on inflation from the Labor Department on Consumer Price Index is out.  The CPI for March came out at -0.1% for nominal CPI and +0.2% on the core ...
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Fidelity National Financial Ups The Offering Ante (FNF)

Posted: April 15, 2009 at 7:24 am

Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE: FNF) has priced its secondary offering this morning, and the result is that it ended up selling more stock than what it had originally planned.  ...
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Top 10 Analyst Calls (CMG, FTO, GS, NTAP, OSG, SBUX, SYY, TK, WRI, YUM)

Posted: April 15, 2009 at 6:58 am

These are the top 10 analyst calls we have seen early this Wednesday morning from Wall Street: Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) Raised to Outperform at William Blair. Frontier Oil (FTO) ...
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Big Banks Work To Crater US Housing Market (JPM)(WFC)

Posted: April 15, 2009 at 5:05 am

After all of the assistance that the government has given large banks, the least that the firms can do is extend liberal terms to homeowners to support the housing market. According ...
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A New Chance For Apple (AAPL) To Gouge AT&T (T)

Posted: April 15, 2009 at 4:48 am

The deal under which AT&T (T) is the exclusive cellular carrier with rights to sell the Apple (AAPL) iPhones in the US will expire soon. The phone company believes that the ...
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Disclosing Bank “Stress Test” Numbers: Good Way To Cause Panic

Posted: April 15, 2009 at 4:35 am

The government is close to having the results of its "stress tests" of large US banks. It has taken the financial firms' balance sheets and set up models for what will ...
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Yahoo! (YHOO) Layoffs And Concern About Microsoft (MSFT) Deal

Posted: April 15, 2009 at 4:16 am

The deal for Microsoft (MSFT) to take over the search business owned by Yahoo! (YHOO) and pay the portal company a share of the advertising revenue in the venture is ...
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Intel (INTC) And The PC World: The Investor Feels Betrayed

Posted: April 15, 2009 at 3:23 am

Intel (INTC), which is the largest maker of PC and server chips in the world, announced earnings that beat analyst expectations. No one would have known that by looking at ...
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Skype: Taking Junk Public

Posted: April 15, 2009 at 3:14 am

eBay (EBAY) announced that it would do an IPO of its Skype internet phone business. According to eBay’s CEO John Donahoe, “Skype is a great stand-alone business with strong fundamentals ...
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Media Digest 4/15/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 15, 2009 at 2:55 am

According to Reuters, Goldman Sachs (GS) would like to return to its old businesses and compensation practices, but it may not be able to. Reuters reports that the US is ...
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Asia Market And Europe Open 4/15/2009

Posted: April 15, 2009 at 2:20 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell 1.1% to 8,743. The Hang Seng was off 1.3% to 15.374. The Shanghai Composite was up .4% to 2,536. At the open ...
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Another Legal Medical Marijuana Company Now Public (GFON, CVIV)

Posted: April 14, 2009 at 6:10 pm

Cannabis Science, Inc. (OTCBB: GFON), or Gulf Onshore, Inc. (GFON), is yet another public stock company which is going after the field of legalized medical marijuana.  Just last week the company was ...
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