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Monthly Archives: April 2009

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Capstone Squeezing Blood from a Turbine (CPST, AMAT)

Posted: April 8, 2009 at 7:41 am

Microturbine maker Capstone Turbine Corporation (NASDAQ:CPST) has announced that it will eliminate an additional 22 professional positions as it continues to reduce expenses. Capstone fired 19 employees in February and ...
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LDK Lands Huge J-V with Q Cells (LDK)

Posted: April 8, 2009 at 7:16 am

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. (NYSE: LDK) is seeing some small gains this morning on word that the company has formed a joint venture with Q Cells SE.  The venture will ...
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Good Or Just Lucky? (GOOG)

Posted: April 8, 2009 at 6:46 am

Joe Weisenthal of The Business Insider In the eight years since Eric Schmidt got hired to run a hot private company called Google (GOOG) in 2001, the company has become ...
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Top Technology Analyst Calls (BBND, CSC, ELX, GRMN, QCOM, STX, WBSN, WDC)

Posted: April 8, 2009 at 6:41 am

We have seen several influential analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiation calls in the technology sector from Wall Street early this Wednesday morning.  These are the key tech calls we have ...
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Early Bird Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AZ, CEO, DAI, BEN, GRMN, SE, TEF)

Posted: April 8, 2009 at 5:54 am

These are the early bird analyst calls from Wall Street that we have seen early this Wednesday morning with about 3 hours until the market opens: Allianz (NYSE: AZ) Cut ...
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Pulte-Centex Create Major Homebuilder Merger (PHM, CTX, XHB)

Posted: April 8, 2009 at 5:16 am

Pulte Homes, Inc. (NYSE: PHM) is acquiring Centex Corporation (NYSE: CTX) in a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $3.1 billion, including $1.8 billion of net debt.  The deal has been unanimously ...
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Intel (INTC) Says Stimulus May Not Help When Chips Are Down (VMW)(AMD)(INTC)(MSFT)

Posted: April 8, 2009 at 5:15 am

The CEO of Intel (INTC) is not sure that the government stimulus package will do him or his industry any good. According to Reuters, the firm's CEO Craig Barrett said ...
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Cosmetic Surgery As A Path To A New Job

Posted: April 8, 2009 at 5:00 am

A number of studies show that tall, good-looking people do better in life and in love. It makes some sense, even in the job markets. Who would not rather have ...
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The Bailout Expands To Life Insurance Firms, Money For The Deceased

Posted: April 8, 2009 at 4:46 am

There is no end to it, this process of bailing out financial institutions. Once the banks were stable, the rest of the sector was supposed to become more solid. That ...
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Google’s (GOOG) Advice Won’t Save The New York Times Company (NYT)

Posted: April 8, 2009 at 4:22 am

Google's (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt told the Newspaper Association of America that all was not lost for its industry. Newspapers  have a chances to create new forms of revenue, if ...
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Housing Takes Center Stage Again As Economy Looks For Signs

Posted: April 8, 2009 at 3:55 am

The forecasting cycle that drives the market is low on fodder since the earnings season is under way and the latest unemployment numbers are tucked neatly into the bed of ...
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A Boring Earnings Season With Bogus Forecasts

Posted: April 8, 2009 at 3:48 am

Many market experts expect this earnings season to do little to set the tone for the rest of the year. They assume that companies have been pounded into submission and ...
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Media Digest 4/8/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 8, 2009 at 3:04 am

According to Reuters, Obama must get Americans to spend now and save later to help the economy, and consumers are wary of spending. Reuters reports that the SEC will consider ...
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Asian, European Markets 4/8/2009

Posted: April 8, 2009 at 2:17 am

Markets in Asia fell sharply. The Nikkei was off 2.7% to 8,595. The Hang Seng dropped 4% to 14,332. The Shanghai Composite was down 3.8% to 2,347. At the open ...
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Juniper Guidance, Oddly Moving Cisco (JNPR, CSCO)

Posted: April 7, 2009 at 3:55 pm

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) has issued preliminary guidance for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. The networking company said that the revenue range is going to be between $760 ...
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