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Daily Archives: June 10, 2009

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Cramer’s Mobile Web & Digital TV Stocks (AAPL, RIMM, PALM, QCOM, ADI, BRCM, MRVL, RFMD, SNDK, STAR, SWKS, TXN, RSH)

Posted: June 10, 2009 at 5:52 pm

If you are a fan of and an investor in the mobile web via smartphones and portable devices, then you do not even have to be a dedicated fan of ...
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Bond Yields Now Compete With Stocks For Investor Funds

Posted: June 10, 2009 at 5:08 pm

It seems that rising bond yields may have finally started to compete for some of the investment dollars which have been either been investing in stocks or sitting on the ...
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Changing CEO’s During Palm Pre Launch, Risky Notion (PALM)

Posted: June 10, 2009 at 4:23 pm

What do you do as an investor when you have a hot product launch that is the entire future of a company and a new CEO gets named to replace ...
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Is Stimulus Spending Fast or Slow?

Posted: June 10, 2009 at 3:57 pm

by Amanda Michel, ProPublica Here at ProPublica, we’re closely watching stimulus projects set up by the Transportation Department. Given all the hand-wringing over how quickly—or how slowly, depending on how ...
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Dell Shows More Corporate Bond Market Healing (DELL, MSFT)

Posted: June 10, 2009 at 3:23 pm

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) raised $1 billion in the corporate bond issuance markets today.  While these are shorter-term than many others, this is just further and further evidence that corporate ...
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Federal Deficit Spending Passes Alarming Levels

Posted: June 10, 2009 at 3:01 pm

It seems that the "Treasury Budget" is in need of a name change just like the "Trade Balance" has seen.  We can all finally start to formally call both of ...
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Beige Book Keeps Looking in Rear-View Mirror

Posted: June 10, 2009 at 1:12 pm

The Federal Reserve's Beige Book is noting improvements in most local economies, although as you might expect there is the normal pause or caution still underlying the combined reports.  The ...
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Mortgage Rates: The Housing Market Is More Fragile Than Expected

Posted: June 10, 2009 at 11:23 am

Mortgage rates are near multi-year lows, so it would seem that if buyers were going to be lured back into the housing market, now would be the time. But, even ...
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Surprise Short Selling Changes (DNDN, DRYS, ETFC, FLEX, GRMN, SIRI, AMTD)

Posted: June 10, 2009 at 11:02 am

After looking through the short interest changes for the end of May.  We saw unusual gains in short selling increases in Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN), DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS), E*TRADE ...
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DOE Inventories Confirms EIA Trends (USO, OIL)

Posted: June 10, 2009 at 9:42 am

The weekly DOE inventories confirmed the EIA data last night, and the data is about just as bullish for oil and energy prices.  The United States Oil (NYSE: USO) ETF ...
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Short Sellers Confused in Alternative Energy Bets (CSIQ, CPST, CLNE, ENER, ESLR, FSLR, FCEL, SOLR, JASO, LDK, SFUN, SPWRA, STP)

Posted: June 10, 2009 at 9:03 am

We have seen the new short interest data out of the NASDAQ and NYSE for the end of May reports.  There are many mixed bets in the alternative energy sector.  ...
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AMD Taking Back Market Share from Intel (AMD, INTC)

Posted: June 10, 2009 at 8:00 am

The worst may have been seen in the market share war for Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE: AMD) against Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC).  A report from late yesterdayfrom iSuppli said ...
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Sprint (S) Still Near Top Of MSN “Worst Customer Service” List

Posted: June 10, 2009 at 7:43 am

Palm (PALM) may not have had much of a choice in terms of which cellular company was going to market its new Pre. AT&T (T) and Verizon Wireless (VZ)(VOD) were ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (ALNY, DB, DSCM, ZEUS, SEPR, X, YHOO)

Posted: June 10, 2009 at 6:58 am

These are some of the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls we have seen from Wall Street research calls early this Wednesday morning: Alnylam (ALNY) Started as Buy ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (CRDN, FSLR, NUE, RS, SINA, TLB)

Posted: June 10, 2009 at 6:56 am

These are some of the top pre-market analyst downgrades and cautious research calls we have seen early this Wednesday morning: Ceradyne (CRDN) cut to Underperform at Wachovia; Cut to Accumulate ...
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