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Daily Archives: June 11, 2009

Food Investor Alert: Fat & Calorie Displays At Food Chains (MCD, YUM, BWLD, CAKE, PFCB, RRGB, EAT, BKC, WEN, TXRH, SONC, CPKI)

Posted: June 11, 2009 at 4:33 pm

If you like to invest in food chain restaurants, Thursday was a bad day as a group of bipartisan senators are trying to require chains to list calories on their ...
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Squashing A Solar Joint Venture (SPIR, TSL)

Posted: June 11, 2009 at 2:10 pm

Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR) has announced that it has reached an agreement with Gloria Solar Co., Ltd. in Taiwan to liquidate their joint venture called Gloria Spire Solar, LLC.  The ...
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Delta (DAL): The Noose Tightens Around The Airline Industry

Posted: June 11, 2009 at 11:25 am

All of the fuel-hedging, layoffs, capacity and route-cutting the airline industry did last year in an attempt to offset the rising price of fuel has gone for nothing. Delta (DAL) ...
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Unusual Dividend Tracking (CAT, CLX, MSFT, TGT, TSCM, VMC, ACAS, IAF)

Posted: June 11, 2009 at 11:08 am

Dividends in general are used as the historic underlying measurement of companies and their abilities to stay profitable at current levels.  Today and last night we have seen some rather ...
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Exxon May Increase Alaska-US Pipeline Efforts (XOM, TRP, COP, BP)

Posted: June 11, 2009 at 9:25 am

Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) may be getting deeper and deeper in Alaska via a monster pipeline project.  A report from the Houston Chronicle said the oil giant is in ...
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A False Positive From Retail Sales

Posted: June 11, 2009 at 8:33 am

Retail sales were up .5% in May as expected, but they were up for many of the wrong reasons creating a mirage effect about the economy's future. The Commerce Department ...
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QUALCOMM: Higher Demand, But Lower ASP’s (QCOM)

Posted: June 11, 2009 at 8:20 am

It seems that the sudden push for all the smartphone launches and the continued gearing down of the laptops to smaller mobile web devices is acting as a boom for ...
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Continuing Jobless Claims Approaches 7 Million

Posted: June 11, 2009 at 7:32 am

The Labor Department has released its new round of weekly jobless claims.  The jobless claims filed last week came in 601,000, and  Bloomberg showed the consensus estimate from economists as ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (ATHN, CNQR, NOA, TIN, UNH, VPRT)

Posted: June 11, 2009 at 6:34 am

These are the top pre-market analyst downgrades or cautious calls we are seeing from Wall Street firms early this Thursday morning with more than two hours until the market opens: ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (CAR, BAC, BCSI, CLRT, IHS, MA, PLXS, QTWW, SLB)

Posted: June 11, 2009 at 6:28 am

These are some of the top early bird analyst upgrades and positive research calls we are seeing from Wall Street this Thursday morning with more than two hours until the ...
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What Does China Do When The Stimulus Well Is Dry?

Posted: June 11, 2009 at 5:11 am

There is no shortage of cleverness among the bureaucrats who run China. Exports in May fell more than 26% according to the country's customs agency. That rate was worse than ...
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China May Buy Volvo, GM May Be Next

Posted: June 11, 2009 at 5:08 am

The Associated Press released an exclusive story which reported that Chinese car company Beijing Automotive Industry Holding might buy Volvo. It is odd that the auto firm cannot find a ...
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The Federal Reserve Loses Money On Every Investment, Will Have To Make It Up On Volume

Posted: June 11, 2009 at 5:04 am

The Federal Reserve issued the first installment of what it calls its ongoing series of monthly reports that provides new information on its credit and liquidity programs. Most of the ...
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Budget: The Revenue That Was Never There

Posted: June 11, 2009 at 5:00 am

The Treasury said that the federal budget deficit in May was almost $190 billion bringing the total for the government’s fiscal year to $992 billion. The government keeps its calendar ...
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Foreclosures Keep Up Economic Pressure

Posted: June 11, 2009 at 4:52 am

The optimist's view of the May foreclosure data from RealtyTrac is that the rate dropped 6% from April. The realist's view is likely to focus on the 18% increase from ...
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