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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Forget Inflation Targets, Go for Dollar-Price Stability

Posted: April 27, 2009 at 7:13 am

John Tamny of RealClearMarkets Recently, Nashville's Vanderbilt University staged an economic conference at which past and present heavy hitters in the area of monetary policy participated. Attendees included Federal Reserve ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (AZN, BMR, ETR, MMM, NFLX, NVO, SWK)

Posted: April 27, 2009 at 6:54 am

These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades we have seen from Wall Street early this Monday morning: AstraZeneca (AZN) Raised to Buy at UBS. BioMed Realty Trust (BMR) ...
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Verizon’s (VZ) Mediocre Results

Posted: April 27, 2009 at 6:50 am

Verizon (VZ) posted modest results for the first quarter of the year. Taking out the effects of its buy-out of Alltel, revenue rose 3.3%. With Alltel factored in Verizon's total ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (BJS, BUCY, BNI, INTU, JOYG,PBR, TKC, WFMI)

Posted: April 27, 2009 at 6:47 am

These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades we have seen early this Monday morning from Wall Street: BJ Services (BJS) Cut to Market Perform at Wachovia. Bucyrus (BUCY) ...
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Swine Flu Lessons from SARS, Mad Cow & Bird Flu of Past (GILD, BCRX, NVAX, GNBT, VICL, AVII, CRXL, RHHBY, GSK, SFD, EWW, MXF)

Posted: April 27, 2009 at 6:40 am

Monday is looking like a SWINE FLU speculative flu stock stock bonanza, and we want to caution about some of the lessons of scares in the past of SARS, bird ...
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Verizon (VZ) May Be Getting Closer To Apple (AAPL) iPhone Deal

Posted: April 27, 2009 at 5:20 am

AT&T (T) has made it clear, very clear that the Apple (AAPL) iPhone is critical to its strategy to increase cellular revenue as its residential landline business shrinks. The iPhone helps ...
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Will The Fed Finally Move Interest Rates Below Zero

Posted: April 27, 2009 at 4:51 am

Over the last year, there has been speculation that the Fed would drop interest rates below zero, paying its borrowers to take money. Analysts believe that credit is so tight ...
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Qualcomm (QCOM) Finally Wises Up

Posted: April 27, 2009 at 4:36 am

Qualcomm's (QCOM) management has not done its investors any favors by fighting wars with its largest customer, Nokia (NOK), and its largest rival, Broadcom (BRCM). The battles, over royalties and ...
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When Does GM (GM) Get Too Small To Survive

Posted: April 27, 2009 at 4:18 am

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Media Digest 4/28/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: April 27, 2009 at 2:59 am

According to Reuters, a new generation of netbooks may reshape the PC industry. Reuters reports that concerns about swine flu have spread across the globe causing health alerts. Reuters reports ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 4/28/2009

Posted: April 27, 2009 at 2:19 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose .2% to 8,728. The Hang Seng fell 2.3% to 14,907. The Shanghai Composite was off 1.8% to 2,405. At the open in ...
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Anatomy Of Economic Rumors: Swine Flu Unlikely To Have Impact On Economy

Posted: April 26, 2009 at 8:06 pm

The media has been hyper-focused this weekend on the news that more than 1,000 people in Mexico have become infected with Swine flu, also known as Influenza A H1N1. Nearly ...
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The Top Ten Stocks For Short Sellers (MSFT)(INTC)(SIRI)(F)(AIG)(C)

Posted: April 26, 2009 at 1:12 pm

Short selling is among the most controversial investment practices and has been blamed for sharp sell-offs in the stocks of a number of large companies, especially financial firms. Governments in both ...
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Government Releases Swine Flu Treatment Stockpiles (RHHBY, GSK)

Posted: April 26, 2009 at 12:49 pm

You have probably heard more and more about the swine flu epidemic from Mexico spreading to the U.S., and a new media advisory is confirming that the drugs Tamiflu by ...
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Short Sellers Abandon Financial Shares, Tech Stocks

Posted: April 26, 2009 at 8:21 am

Short sellers are not longer willing to gamble on a collapse in the share prices of America's largest financial firms. Perhaps they think that the issue of nationalization has largely ...
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