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Daily Archives: June 3, 2009

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Top Break-Out Stocks (APSG, CYOU, COOL, TSRA, TIVO)

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 1:14 pm

Today's 52-week high review list showed many names which looked like they were trying to break out, but then the pullback kept many of them from making the rounds.  But ...
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Bernanke Finds The Elephant In The Room

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 11:41 am

Ben Bernanke has probably already seen accurate estimates of what unemployment figures for May look like. The ADP data indicates that the loss for non-farm payrolls will be well above ...
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Higher Oil Prices Already Impacting Inventories (USO, OIL)

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 9:46 am

The D.O.E. has just released weekly data for crude oil, and the losses in weekly inventories appear to be a bit reversed this last week.  Crude inventories came in up ...
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Apple Upgrade Has Competitive Implications (AAPL, GOOG, MSFT, RIMM)

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 8:30 am

In a new research call this morning, Collins Stewart rated Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) to a Buy rating.  The research call has some serious implications for Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) ...
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Slightly Good News From Homebuilder Earnings (HOV, TOL, XHB)

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 8:12 am

Traders are lightly selling Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. (NYSE: HOV) and Toll Brothers Inc. (NYSE: TOL) after the two homebuilders reported earnings between yesterday's close and this morning's open.  The news ...
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ADP Data Supports Above 9% Unemployment Rate

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 7:22 am

ADP's jobs data is showing an expected jobs decrease of some 532,000 for the month of May. The data for April also showed that the job losses were revised down ...
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Data Domain Bidding War Heats Up (DDUP, NTAP, EMC)

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 7:12 am

The war for Data Domain, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDUP) is heating up.  It was first NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) that offered to buy the company.  Then EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) came ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (BBT, CMA, FEIC, GOOG, HBI, HD, LOW, NEM, PLT, ROP, TGT, TSCO, WMT)

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 6:43 am

These are top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research notes we have seen from Wall Street early this Wednesday morning: BB&T (BBT) Raised to Market Perform at KBW. Comerica (CMA) ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (AET, CAH, DAKT, GIL, GPI, KGC)

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 6:39 am

These are the top early analyst downgrades and cautious research calls we have seen this Wednesday morning from Wall Street firms: Aetna (AET) Cut to Market Perform at Credit Suisse. ...
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By Not Competing With Each Other For Workers, Big Tech Firms May Have Broken The Law

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 5:16 am

Antitrust officials have come up with an interesting application of the monopoly laws. They believe that large tech firms like Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), and Yahoo! (YHOO) conspired to keep ...
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Facebook May Have Found A Way To Make Money

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 5:03 am

Facebook is not likely to make much money selling advertising. Marketers find it hard to target users on social networks. The cannot be neatly grouped like the people who go ...
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Saving The Car Industry While Killing Employment

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 4:44 am

GM's Chapter 11 filing shows that it will hold onto its highly successful Latin American and Chinese operations. From the standpoint of its new shareholders that makes sense. Both of ...
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Nintendo Claims It Still Beats Rivals, Even If Evidence Says Otherwise

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 4:26 am

Nintendo says it is doing remarkable well, especially in America. Recent data from the industry show that sales of the company's Wii have slowed considerably. Sony (SNE) and Microsoft (MSFT) ...
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Starbucks (SBUX) Changes Almost Its Whole Menu

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 4:13 am

Starbucks (SBUX) does not seem to know how to leave well-enough alone. It is a coffee chain. But, it has tried to sell music, DVDs, coffee machines, and breakfast and ...
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What If Everyone Does Not Want A Smartphone?

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 3:52 am

Walt Mossberg, the tech columnist of The Wall Street Journal, made a good point recently. Smartphones like the Apple (AAPL)iPhone are not phones at all. They are miniature portable computers. ...
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