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Monthly Archives: June 2009

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The Government Versus Goldman Sachs (GS)

Posted: June 22, 2009 at 3:37 am

Goldman Sachs (GS) has now paid back the TARP funds which removes the firm from what it must consider the government's most draconian pay restrictions, those applied to companies living on taxpayer ...
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Media Digest 6/22/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg.

Posted: June 22, 2009 at 2:55 am

Reuters:   Airlines are cutting back on first class seating. Reuters:   Xstrata wants merger talks with mining rival Anglo American. Reuters:   Employers are cutting 401 (K) plans. Reuters:   Brand loyalty is being ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 6/22/2009

Posted: June 22, 2009 at 2:25 am

Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei rose .4% to 9,826. The Hang Seng was up 1.6% to 18,213. The Shanghai Composite rose .6% to 2,896. At the open in ...
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Why Yahoo! (YHOO) Will Never Recover

Posted: June 21, 2009 at 10:00 am

Yahoo! (YHOO) will never recover from its botched negotiations with Microsoft (MSFT),  in which the larger company offered to buy it in early 2008. The initial offer was for $44.6 ...
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Bank Of American (BAC) Dumps Two More Directors

Posted: June 20, 2009 at 7:54 am

It is hard to imagine why one of the world's largest money center banks would have an admiral and a general on its board, but Bank of America (BAC) has ...
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Year-To-Date Trends For CNBC.com And FoxBusiness.com

Posted: June 20, 2009 at 7:46 am

Since the beginning of the year, the audience at CNBC.com is up 10% according to Hitwise. FoxBusiness.com is off 23%.   CNBC.com Foxbusiness.com   Week Ending Rank Among Business ...
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Apple’s (AAPL) Steve Jobs Had A Liver Transplant

Posted: June 20, 2009 at 4:42 am

According to The Wall Street Journal,  Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago and will not be able to return to work full-time for another ...
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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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