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Daily Archives: June 9, 2009

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Can’t Kill The Sims (ERTS, AAPL)

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 3:21 pm

Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) is often known for its overwhelmingly popular Madden and sports game franchises.  Yet the Sims is the series that just keeps on giving.  Because you ...
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News Escalates Technical Event in Solar Stocks (FCEL, STP, ESLR, SPWRA, YGE, TAN, FSLR)

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 2:03 pm

We recently have noticed how more and more solar companies are seeing big gains on news, particularly in those which have recently raised cash in a seondary offering.  We are ...
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Cisco (CSCO) Video Traffic Forecast Trouble For Cable And Telecoms?

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 1:50 pm

Cisco (CSCO) expected a staggering increase in IP traffic between now and 2013. A new report from the router company says that global IP traffic will quintuple in the five years ending ...
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Airline Stocks Become Reverse Proxy For Oil Again

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 12:13 pm

The first week of May, crude moved around just over $50. Today it traded just above $69, a 38% increase over that period. Airline stocks have reacted badly to the ...
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Nokia (NOK) Loses Stock Market Derby Of Wireless Firms

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 11:40 am

Nokia (NOK) is by far the largest handset company in the world with a market share of 38%. It is strange that since the beginning of the year its stock ...
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Microsoft (MSFT): Bing Starts To Ding Yahoo! (YHOO)

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 11:11 am

Steve Ballmer is The Man. His persistance in pursuing search engine market share may finally be paying off which could sink Yahoo!'s (YHOO) chances of being turned around under new ...
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GM Plays A Manic Game Of Musical Chairs In The Boardroom

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 11:00 am

The government's game of managing General Motors took another odd turn today as Ed Whitacre, the former CEO of AT&T (T), a man who know about phone lines but not ...
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Another Hedge Fund ETF Launches (MCRO, QAI)

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 9:39 am

NYSE Euronext has begun trading the IQ Hedge Macro Tracker ETF (NYSE: MCRO), sponsored by IndexIQ Advisors LLC.  This marks the second product by IndexIQ Advisors to list on NYSE ...
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FuelCell and POSCO in Korea: When Contracts Really Add Up (FCEL

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 8:35 am

FuelCell Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: FCEL) is screaming higher in early trading before the bell, and it is easy to see why.  The company announced that POSCO Power ordered 30.8 megawatts ...
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Yingli Scores Another Incremental Pact (YGE)

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 8:23 am

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) has announced a new pact that has shares rising this morning.  The company entered into a strategic sales agreement at the PV ...
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Getting Out From Under the TARP (AXP, BK, BBT, COF, GS, JPM, STT, USB)

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 7:55 am

The Treasury is finally allowing some of the TARP recipient banks that posed the least systematic risk to begin repaying the Treasury's preferred stock funds.  This will get these institutions ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (ATHN, BPSG, FWRD, JDAS, MRVL, MWA, SWY, STT)

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 6:39 am

These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls we have seen from Wall Street early this Tuesday morning with about two hours until the market ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (DNB, GG, HIG, MAS, MR, RMG)

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 6:35 am

These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades and cautious research calls we have seen early this Tuesday morning with about two hours until the open: Dun & Bradstreet ...
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Starbucks (SBUX) Raises Earnings By Cheating Customers?

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 6:06 am

It is a devilishly clever way for a company with flagging revenue to raise sales. Cheat customers by double charging them. According to several media outlets, as many as one million Starbucks ...
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As YouTube Video Streams Top One Billion A Day, Service Flounders Financially

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 5:44 am

New data from TechCrunch indicates that Google's  (GOOG) YouTube has reached one billion streams served per day. The numbers probably mean that the service is losing much more than analysts ...
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