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Monthly Archives: May 2009

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Will The Government Reject TARP Payments From Goldman And Morgan Stanley

Posted: May 19, 2009 at 4:38 am

It is no secret that several large banks want to pay back the TARP money that they took from the government in some cases against their will. Goldman Sachs (GS), ...
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Twitter Uber Alles: Business Applications From The Web’s New Phenom

Posted: May 19, 2009 at 4:25 am

Twitter, the short texting web success, adds millions of new users every month. No one has been able to figure out how to make money on the service, at least ...
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GE (GE) Gets Its Pride Back, But Not Its Stock Price

Posted: May 19, 2009 at 4:01 am

GE’s financial business was supposed to be worth zero, or worse.  Deutsche Bank analysts said it had a negative valuation of $50 billion. Some publicity-seeking stock commentators said the entire ...
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GM And Chrysler: The Revenge Of The Car Dealers

Posted: May 19, 2009 at 3:08 am

Chrysler and GM will force 2,000 car dealerships to close.  This event has elicited a great many opinions from industry experts.  The consensus is that the most damage to the ...
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Media Digest 5/19/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: May 19, 2009 at 2:53 am

Reuters:   Twitter will release business tools in an attempt to make money. Reuters:   A GM (GM) bankruptcy is seen as nearly inevitable. Reuters:   American Express (AXP) will cut 4,000 jobs. ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 5/19/2009

Posted: May 19, 2009 at 2:19 am

Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei was up 2.8% to 9,290. The Hang Seng rose 2.4% to 17,424. The Shanghai Composite was up .9% to 2,677. At the open ...
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Smaller Banks May Face $200 Billion In Losses

Posted: May 18, 2009 at 7:45 pm

A comprehensive survey by The Wall Street Journal shows that "Commercial real-estate loans could generate losses of $100 billion by the end of next year at more than 900 small ...
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SolarWinds & OpenTable IPO’s To Determine Summer IPO Docket (SWI, OPEN)

Posted: May 18, 2009 at 3:12 pm

We are expecting two initial public offerings this week.  On the docket are SolarWinds, Inc. to trade under the "SWI" ticker on the NYSE, and OpenTable, Inc. to trade under ...
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2009 IPO Scorecard, Up 27% On Average (CYOU, RST, MJN, DGI, BPI)

Posted: May 18, 2009 at 1:54 pm

We have been keeping track of the 2009 IPOs that made it to market, and while one is barely broken, a portfolio of the IPOs from the pricing level gives ...
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Diverse Stocks Hitting New 52-Week Highs (ADY, COMS, CUBC, DDRX, LORL, MED, NKTR, OGXI, PALM, QSII, STEC)

Posted: May 18, 2009 at 1:29 pm

There are some rather interesting stocks hitting 52-week highs today.  Some may seem obvious, while others may seem as though they are from left field. American Dairy (NYSE: ADY) is ...
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Don’t Count on Your 401(k)

Posted: May 18, 2009 at 10:07 am

The next financial crisis—yes, we saw it coming. By Mark Gimein of The Big Money "Our nation's system of retirement security is imperiled, headed for a serious train wreck.That wreck ...
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Time Warner Looks Ahead in Central European Media Investment (CETV, TWX)

Posted: May 18, 2009 at 9:54 am

Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. (NASDAQ: CETV) issued a statement this morning that the Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) investment closed.  It is usually hard to know if the seller ...
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India Election Winners By ETF & Shares (PIN, EPI, IIF, IFN, INP, INFY, IBN, REDF, SAY, SLT, TTM, WIT)

Posted: May 18, 2009 at 8:19 am

It is rare that you see an election have this large of an impact, but the Indian stock market surged on the new election results.  The Congress Party won a ...
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The Apple (AAPL) iPhone Gets More Like A PC

Posted: May 18, 2009 at 8:02 am

Apple's (AAPL) march to make the iPhone a viable alternative to the business-oriented RIM (RIMM) Blackberry and perhaps netbooks, which are posting surging sales, got a boost from software security ...
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Italy’s ENI Grows In Texas, Via Quicksilver (E, KWK, UNG)

Posted: May 18, 2009 at 8:01 am

Italian energy giant Eni SpA (NYSE:E) has acquired a 27.5% interest in the leases of Quicksilver Resources Inc. (NYSE:KWK) in Quicksilver's Alliance properties in the Fort Worth basin. Quicksilver will ...
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