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Daily Archives: June 8, 2009

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Gas Prices Sudden Step Into The Limelight

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 8:11 pm

It may only be dawning on the media and economists that high oil prices have pushed gasoline over $3.00 per gallon in some states. A prolonged period of high fuel ...
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Chrysler Will Not Be The Administration’s Last Trip To The Supreme Court

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 7:32 pm

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg reviewed a lawsuit by several Indiana pension funds to block the sale of some Chrysler assets to a group led by Fiat and indicated that there ...
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Texas Instruments Looking Less Conservative (TXN, BRCM, QCOM, MRVL)

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 3:40 pm

Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN) has just given its second quarter update, one of the first seen by major chip companies.  The chip giant sees $2.3 billion to $2.5 billion ...
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Apple’s Aggressive Pricing Risks (AAPL, T, RIMM, PALM, S, VZ)

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 2:59 pm

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is having more than its share of free press from the World Wide Developers Conference this week.  The big new push here seems to be on ...
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Cramer’s SLM Double, Actually A Triple Or More (SLM)

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 2:04 pm

Jim Cramer is loved and hated  by many on both sides, but despite the hype he makes and gets accused of he rarely calls for a stock to double.  That ...
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How To Measure Obama’s 600,000 New Jobs

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 10:39 am

President Obama says that he plans to accelerate portions of the stimulus bill in an attempt to add jobs to the economy more quickly. The new goal is to create ...
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Analysts Duel Over Google Values (GOOG)

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 8:28 am

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is still watched by just about every trader under the sun.  This morning we have two analyst research calls that differ greatly.  There is a raised ...
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McDonald’s Seeing Some Slowing Growth (MCD)

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 8:11 am

McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD) is trading lower after the fast food giant posted some mixed same store sales data for the month of May.  The golden arches posted +5.1% same ...
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Despite the Fed’s Protests, Growth Does Not Cause Inflation

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 7:20 am

John Tamny of RealClearMarkets Inflation's decline in the '80s thanks to a resurgent dollar seemingly proved once and for all that it is always monetary in nature--specifically the result of ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ARG, T, GOOG, HOV, MELI, SSL, STO, TSM, TRI, WSM)

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 6:53 am

These are the top ten analyst calls for research upgrades, downgrades, and initiations which we have seen from Wall Street early this Monday morning: Airgas (ARG) Started as Buy at ...
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Will All Of The Top Management On Wall St. Work For $1 A Year?

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 5:19 am

The Administration is looking at further pay caps for executives on Wall St. and the auto industry. The reasoning is that if a company takes government money, the government should ...
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Microsoft (MSFT) May Offer Huge Price Cut For Windows 7 Pressuring Margins

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 5:04 am

Microsoft (MSFT) may price Windows 7 as low as $100 to offset the effects of the recession on PC operating system sales and the public's rejection of Vista, the current ...
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Oil Will Rise Much Further Says Industry CEO

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 4:42 am

Shell is the largest oil company in Europe and one of the biggest in the world. Its assessment of the industry and the direction of the price of oil is probably ...
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The New Case For Airline Bankruptcies: $9 Billion Annual Loss

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 4:26 am

The International Air Transport Association has doubled its estimates for global airline industry losses compared to its figure of three months ago. That presages another round of carrier bankruptcies similar to ...
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The Failure Of The Web 1.0 Giants And The Case That Facebook and MySpace Could Be Worthless

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 3:53 am

Facebook recently took in a new $200 million investment which puts the value of the company at $10 billion. That is down from a $15 billion valuation based on an ...
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