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Top Analyst Downgrades (GLW, ETN, EBAY, GMCR, INTU, WFR, VDSI, WFC, WYNN)

Posted: April 13, 2009 at 6:50 am

These are most of the top pre-market analyst downgrades and cautious research notes we have seen from Wall Street analysts this Monday morning: Corning (GLW) Cut to Perform at Oppenheimer. ...
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As China Slows US Debt Purchases, Will Treasury Rates Rise

Posted: April 13, 2009 at 6:12 am

The Administration is going to have to raise hundreds of billons of dollars to support its stimulus package, budget, and mortgage bail-out programs. Several things could make the process difficult, ...
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The World’s Most Ethical Companies? A Joke

Posted: April 13, 2009 at 5:14 am

An organization called Ethisphere has put out a list called "2009 World's Most Ethical Companies" There is nothing wrong with the list, but the basis on which it was put ...
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GM (GM) Creditors May Simply Get Robbed

Posted: April 13, 2009 at 4:51 am

GM's (GM) creditors seem to believe that they should get a better deal than the car company is offering them so that it can reduce its debt. Even the most ...
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TARP Recipients Face Another Charge Of Mismanagement: A Customer Bill Of Rights

Posted: April 13, 2009 at 4:32 am

There would appear to be no end to the extent to which banks which received TARP funds will go to make Congress and the public unhappy with the program and ...
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Microsoft’s (MSFT) Key Bargaining Chip—Yahoo!’s (YHOO) Earnings

Posted: April 13, 2009 at 4:09 am

There have been a number of news reports recently saying that Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo! are back in the process of negotiating a combination of their search businesses to take ...
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China Makes Claim To Lead World Economies

Posted: April 13, 2009 at 4:02 am

Based on claims from the Chinese government, which should not be a revelation to anyone given their source, the economy of the world’s most populous nation has begun to turn ...
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Media Digest 4/13/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 13, 2009 at 3:00 am

According to Reuters, GM (GM) has been told by Treasury to begin work on a bankruptcy. Reuters reports that China's growth has started to move inland from the coast. Reuters ...
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Asia Markets 4/13/2009

Posted: April 13, 2009 at 2:19 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .4% to 8,924. Hong Kong was  closed for a holiday. The Shanghai Composite rose 2.5% to 2,514. Data from Reuters. Douglas A. ...
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A Note To The Treasury: Toyota (TM) Will Lose $5 Billion

Posted: April 12, 2009 at 6:27 am

The Treasury Department may want to adjust what it thinks the cost of the bailouts of GM (GM) and Chrysler will cost. Word out of Japan is that Toyota (TM) ...
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For eBay (EBAY) A Chance To Sell Skype And Dump A Problem

Posted: April 11, 2009 at 8:18 am

The founders of Skype, the huge VoIP service, may buy it back from eBay--for about half the price that they received. It would be a chance for eBay to focus ...
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News Shorts From Silicon Valley (AAPL)(MSFT)(YHOO)

Posted: April 11, 2009 at 5:54 am

From The Wall Street Journal, Steve Jobs is working from home and is still involved in critical decisions at Apple (AAPL). From AllThingsDigital and to no one's surprise, Microsoft (MSFT) and ...
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Confirmed: First-Half Budget Deficit $1 Trillion

Posted: April 10, 2009 at 1:35 pm

As 24/7 Wall St. mentioned in an earlier post, the Federal budget deficit was nearly $1 trillion. The Treasury department issued its numbers today. CBO came out with its figures ...
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Weekly AAPL Headline Roundup: April 9

Posted: April 10, 2009 at 1:08 pm

In addition to today’s Credit Suisse price target upgrade, there’s lots of interesting news for Apple in this pre-earnings (coming April 22) period. Here are the week’s top stories, aggregated ...
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Death a la Carte

Posted: April 10, 2009 at 10:18 am

It's not Google that's killing the media. By Mark Gimein of  The Big Money What you are reading now is an article, published by a Web site, The Big Money. ...
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