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Daily Archives: June 19, 2009

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E*TRADE Valuation May Finally Be Compelling (ETFC, SCHW, AMTD, GS, MS)

Posted: June 19, 2009 at 2:08 pm

E*TRADE Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: ETFC) has been the worst of the online brokerage stock.  With some of the crazy mortgage products it offered, it is no wonder.  And the stock ...
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First Major Rig Count Growth In Months (BHI, USO, OIL)

Posted: June 19, 2009 at 12:43 pm

Baker Hughes Incorporated (NYSE: BHI) has released its first rig count in weeks that shows an increase.  This follows months and months of declining rig counts as many were down ...
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Many Cult Stock Changes In Russell 3000 Rebalance (CPST, BCON, FNSR, RICK, SIRI, TSCM, URRE, VG)

Posted: June 19, 2009 at 12:01 pm

The Russell 3000 Index is being rebalanced and many cult stocks with low share prices that have a wide following and high trading volume are getting booted off the index. ...
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Russell Rebalance Included Many Cult Stocks (CBOU, DDRX, OPWV, STEM, UBET)

Posted: June 19, 2009 at 11:26 am

There are some interesting cult stocks which have recovered so much that they are being added into the Russell 3000 Index when the index gets rebalanced and reconstituted at the ...
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Buying/Selling Berkshire Hathaway The Cheap Way: Stock Options (BRK.B, BRK.A)

Posted: June 19, 2009 at 10:19 am

Admittedly, this almost feels strange.  Before this week there have not been any stock options for Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B).  We received word from the CBOE that ...
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Newsweek.com Audience Jumps After Relaunch

Posted: June 19, 2009 at 9:51 am

Newsweek.com, just off of the launch of its new website and magazine, posted a large increase in its online audience, according to numbers from Hitwise.com. Newsweek.com's share of visites to ...
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Russell Rebalance Including & Excluding Key IPO’s (BPI, DGI, OPEN, RST, RHIE, SWI, CYOU, LOPE, MJN, RAX)

Posted: June 19, 2009 at 8:35 am

We will have some changes or further additions and deletions coming today from Russell for the highly awaited Russell rebalance and reconstitution taking place late this month.  What is interesting ...
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Russell Booting Out Speculative Energy Stocks in Rebalances (AXAS, AKNS, AEZ, KAZ, CPE, CFW, CPST, DBLE, EXXI, FTK, GGR, GMET, GRH, TMR, MIND, NCOC, PEIX, QRCP, RAME, TIV, TRMA)

Posted: June 19, 2009 at 7:44 am

This year is going to mark a significant change in the Russell rebalance and reconstitution at end of June.  Now that oil and other energy related commodities have been cut ...
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Bove Runs Up Citi Again (C)

Posted: June 19, 2009 at 7:07 am

Citigroup, inc. (NYSE: C) is back under focus by an old bull in the stock.  Dick Bove of Rochdale Securities has started coverage of the troubled bank with a BUY ...
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Top Early Bird Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BIDU, BAX, CCL, IBM, LDK, MSFT, SPWRA)

Posted: June 19, 2009 at 6:02 am

These are the top big analyst calls from Wall Street we have seen very early this Friday morning with over two and a half hours until the market opens: Baidu ...
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America’s Next Export: Pollution Control

Posted: June 19, 2009 at 5:09 am

A new study from MIT says that if the US and China cannot control and reduce carbon dioxide emissions from coal-burning plants, efforts at cutting back on global warming may ...
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Microsoft (MSFT) Willing To Spend $10 Billion On Search

Posted: June 19, 2009 at 4:56 am

Yahoo! (YHOO) and Google (GOOG) actually have something to worry about, if Steve Ballmer is not bluffing. The Microsoft (MSFT) CEO says that he company is prepared to spend 5% ...
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Toyota (TM) Prius Success, Another Detroit Failure

Posted: June 19, 2009 at 4:39 am

Toyota (TM) has booked 180,000 domestic orders for its Prius hybrid model in the first month that it has been on the market.  There is no reason to think that ...
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Chinese, Flush With Cash, May Buy Into Assets And Dodge Government Worries

Posted: June 19, 2009 at 4:21 am

The big money in China is starting to worry that by the time it starts to shop for undervalued assets outside its borders, the recovery may be underway and the ...
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Heads Of Bailed Out Firms Still Love Their Private Jets

Posted: June 19, 2009 at 3:56 am

The Wall Street Journal, in a bit of investigative reporting, found that the CEOs of companies that have received federal bailout funds are still having fun using their firms' private ...
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