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Monthly Archives: April 2009

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eBay To Jettison Skype, IPO Rather Than Sale (EBAY)

eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is finally going to jettison its Skype VoIP service.  That is the good news.  The bad news is that this is not the separation we were ...
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SIRIUS XM Scores Debt Rating Upgrade (SIRI, LCAPA)

SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) might not exactly seem like the most stable or improving company by any financial statement analysis on the surface.  If that is really the ...
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Intel, Shoddy But Less Gloomy (INTC)

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has reported its earnings.  This is far from pretty, but not nearly as bad as many were braced for a few weeks ago.  The chip and ...
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Somali Pirates Are Getting Rich: A Look At The Profit Margins

Errol Flynn never had it this good in “Captain Blood” Being a Somali pirate looks like a profitable business from the outside and it is. The margins are as attractive ...
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Dell Steps Slowly Into More Services (DELL, HPQ, IBM, PER)

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) has been branching out further into IT and web-based services in an effort to supplement and to get away from a model that is almost solely-dependent upon PC ...
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Bernanke Vs. Retail Sales

The new retail sales report indicates that the economy is not pulling out of it nose dive. According to the Commerce Department, U.S. retail sales dropped a seasonally adjusted 1.1% ...
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236 Years of Hating Taxes

How we've created and resisted taxation since the nation was born. By Natalie Matthews and Sara Behunek of The Big Money As we gnash our teeth, fumble with forms, and ...
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Sterling Bancshares Files To Raise Cash… Adios TARP? (SBIB, SBIBN)

Sterling Bancshares Inc. (NASDAQ: SBIB) has just filed with the SEC to sell up to $150 million in a mixed securities shelf filing.  The bank listed that it will sell ...
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If Citigroup Gets Back Over $5.00….

Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) was believed by many to be on the verge of death just six short weeks ago.  But alas, the shorting and the selling doesn't go on forever ...
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Just How Bad is the News on Drilling? (BHI, BAS)

We've been tracking the rig count from Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE:BHI) for a long time, and the bad news on North American drilling has finally tapered off. Now, Basic Energy ...
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Acadia Realty Joins REITs Raising Cash (AKR)

Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE: AKR) has joined the wave of REIT entities selling stock to raise cash.  The company priced its public secondary offering of 5 million common shares at ...
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Sunoco Logistics Ups Offering (SXL)

Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (NYSE:SXL), a pipeline master limited partnership, has increased an already-announced offering of common units from 2 million to 2.2 million, and priced the offering at $50.60/common ...
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Benchmark Capital Starts Google (GOOG) At Buy

Benchmark Capital initiates coverage on Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) with a Buy rating and $430 price target. The firm said, while the recession has reduced industry growth to roughly zero and ...
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The World Needs Currency Leadership

By John Tamny of RealClearMarkets "I have lost money in sterling. I have lost money in dollars. I have never lost money by holding gold." - A Scandinavian bank president, ...
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Goldman Sachs Prices Its Own Secondary (GS)

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) has announced the pricing of its highly anticipated secondary offering of 40,650,407 shares of its common stock.  The pricing went off at $123.00 ...
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