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Daily Archives: June 5, 2009

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Bank Of America (BAC) Makes The Government Happy, Adds New Directors

In a sign that the federal government is the puppet master of several of America's largest banks, Bank of America (BAC) has appointed four new directors with extensive bank management ...
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Does Green Mountain Stay #1 in IBD 100? (GMCR)

After looking through last weekend's print version of Investor Business Daily's "IBD 100" it was almost shocking on the surface to see that Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) ...
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Wind River: A Hope For More Money (WIND, INTC)

Wind River Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIND) has only been an in-play takeover name for merger investors for about 36 hours after yesterday morning's announcement from Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) that ...
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Palomar’s Chance To Take Away from BOTOX (PMTI, JNJ, AGN)

Palomar Medical Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PMTI) is seeing shares surge to new heights not seen in 18-months.  The company is the first to receive FDA approval for over-the-counter clearance for ...
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BLS Denies Rumors of Payrolls Data Errors

It is not too unusual for rumors to circulate that certain components of economic data contained errors or were just wrong in an instance where the actual number is so ...
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Wal-Mart’s Mother of All Buybacks (WMT)

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) gave shareholders a surprise at this morning's annual shareholder meeting.  The retail giant announced that it was going to repurchase up to $15 billion worth ...
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Microsoft (MSFT) May Have Passed Yahoo! (YHOO) For No.2 Search Slot

Microsoft (MSFT) has been fighting for years to be taken seriously in the online search engine business. It plans to have a strong foothold have been undermined with each new ...
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First Community Bancshares, A Bad Secondary Pricing That Isn’t So Bad (FCBC)

First Community Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCBC) looks as though it gave away the store in a secondary offering pricing, but when you look at the dilution it is actually not ...
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MarkWest Secondary Discounting Takes A Toll (MWE)

MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: MWE) has priced its public offering of 2.9 million common units at an offering price of $18.15 per common unit.  While all funds are being ...
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Rig Counts and Oil Price Chasing (BHI, USO, OIL)

Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE:BHI) announced today that the international rig count for May 2009 and it looks like the endless slide we saw all of 2009 is being confirmed as ...
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Non-Farm Payrolls Trump Unemployment for Market Blast Off

We have gotten the unemployment and jobs data for the month of May from the Labor Department, and the data is very mixed on unofficial numbers.  The report came in ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMAT, CMG, HGSI, IACI, JTX, NKE, NFLX, SYNA, TIN, UAUA)

These are ten of the top research calls from Wall Street's analyst wave of daily upgrades, downgrades, and initiations this Friday morning: Applied Materials (AMAT) Cut to Hold at Citigroup. ...
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Analyst Projecting 50% Upside in Dendreon (DNDN)

Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN) was started with a Buy rating and a $36.00 target at Deutsche Bank.  The call's positive expectations are mixed near-term, but the assumption is that Provenge ...
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Apple’s (AAPL) Luckiest Day: Jobs’ Three Challenges

Analysts have said that Apple (AAPL) does not need Steve Jobs. Apple shares are up 60% since he took a break to work on his health with his doctors. Because ...
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As Housing Market Struggles Increase, Home Sellers Slash Prices

Analysts watching the housing market are about to see whether falling real estate prices will bring buyers back into the market. Many home shoppers believe that the value of houses ...
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