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Daily Archives: June 15, 2009

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Rating the Top 25 Newspaper Websites 2009

Posted: June 15, 2009 at 8:36 pm

The struggle for large urban newspapers to stay in business has largely been an effort on the part of their managements to increase revenue on the Internet faster than it ...
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Even Good News Does Not Lift GE (GE) Shares

Posted: June 15, 2009 at 2:30 pm

Just a few months ago, a relatively large number of investors and analysts thought that GE's (G) earnings would be crushed by losses at it financial unit. That did not ...
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Questionable Confidence Among Builders (XHB, ITB)

Posted: June 15, 2009 at 12:26 pm

The confidence among home builders looked like it was creeping higher, but the most recent data from the National Association of Home Builders showed a decrease in June.  This drop ...
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Iran and the Myth of Geopolitical Risk in Oil (USO, OIL)

Posted: June 15, 2009 at 11:46 am

Last week, there was more continued media coverage of the death of David Carradine about the weekend elections in Iran.  Yet, here we sit on Monday and there have been ...
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Arbitrage Risk/Reward Inverted on Data Domain (DDUP, NTAP, EMC)

Posted: June 15, 2009 at 10:21 am

The long battle over Data Domain Inc. (NASDAQ: DDUP) may soon be coming to an end.  NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) appears to be coming out ahead of EMC Corp. (NYSE: ...
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Fox Business Still Taking On Water

Posted: June 15, 2009 at 10:00 am

Fox Business, launched in October 2007, was supposed to air content substantially different enough from rival CNBC to take some of the larger channel's viewers or, at least, build a viewership ...
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Bove’s Bank of America Call Confusing To Bulls & Bears (BAC)

Posted: June 15, 2009 at 9:39 am

Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is having a hard time finding its footing this morning.  Rochdale Securities' Dick Bove has a research note that is leaving investors and traders ...
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Advanced Battery Raises More Cash (ABAT)

Posted: June 15, 2009 at 8:09 am

Advanced Battery Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABAT) recently raised $10 million in a private placement.  It has agreed to sell additional $7 million worth of convertible preferred stock and warrants to ...
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NY Fed Manufacturing Data Heads Wrong Way

Posted: June 15, 2009 at 7:48 am

The New York Fed's Empire manufacturing data came in a bit weaker than expected.  Business conditions for the month of June fell to -9.41 versus a reading of -4.55 in ...
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Goldman Sachs Boots Wal-Mart Off Conviction Buy List (WMT)

Posted: June 15, 2009 at 7:30 am

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is acting like a broken stock, and this morning's big downgrade is not helping matters at the world's largest retailer.  Goldman Sachs has removed the ...
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The Flipside of Failure

Posted: June 15, 2009 at 7:11 am

John Tamny of RealClearMarkets Amid the broad decline in economic activity over the past year, there have unsurprisingly been a lot of stories revealing the individual hurt wrought by recession. ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMG, AG, IRE, CAG, GPN, JASO, LEA, NTGR, ODFL, YHOO)

Posted: June 15, 2009 at 6:43 am

These are ten of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiation calls we have seen from Wall Street early this Monday morning with about two hours until the market opens: ...
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The Postal System Becomes An Anachronism

Posted: June 15, 2009 at 5:27 am

The US Postal System, which has been dying for years due to the advent of the fax, e-mail, and overnight delivery, may finally be close to its last act. The ...
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Even Google (GOOG) Pays Attention To Microsoft’s (MSFT) Bing

Posted: June 15, 2009 at 5:10 am

There are a growing number of reports that Microsoft's (MSFT) new Bing search engine is causing a little perspiration to break out on the foreheads of the people who run ...
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A New And Improved XBox, Microsoft’s (MSFT) Electronics Ace

Posted: June 15, 2009 at 4:58 am

All the evidence points to the sales of the Nintendo Wii slowing. That would make sense. More than 20 million have been sold in the US. The market gets saturated ...
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