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Monthly Archives: June 2009

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Stressing The “Stress Test” System

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 5:13 am

Maybe the initial "stress tests" of America's 19 largest banks were flawed. Or, perhaps taking a single snapshot is not an adequate way to measure the ever-changing financial system. The ...
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Apple (AAPL) And Palm (PALM): Lose Money On Every Sale And Make It Up On Volume

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 4:52 am

One of the first rules students are taught at The Harvard Business School is that it is a bad practice to sell products at a loss and hope to make ...
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Treasury Gets Its Money Back And Can Afford To Save Another Industry

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 4:50 am

The Treasury Department is likely to allow 10 banks which owe in money from TARP funds to pay it back a total of $50 billion. The money will probably burn ...
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Media Digest 6/9/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 3:02 am

Reuters:  China must balance growth and reducing greenhouse gases. Reuters:   The Supreme Court has delayed Chrysler's Chapter 11. Reuters:   The US will allow 10 banks to repay TARP funds. Reuters:   ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 6/9/2009

Posted: June 9, 2009 at 2:22 am

Markets in Asia were narrowly mixed. The Nikkei fell .6% to 9,786. The Hang Seng was off .4% to 18,183. The Shanghai Composite was up .7% to 2,788. At the ...
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Gas Prices Sudden Step Into The Limelight

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 8:11 pm

It may only be dawning on the media and economists that high oil prices have pushed gasoline over $3.00 per gallon in some states. A prolonged period of high fuel ...
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Chrysler Will Not Be The Administration’s Last Trip To The Supreme Court

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 7:32 pm

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg reviewed a lawsuit by several Indiana pension funds to block the sale of some Chrysler assets to a group led by Fiat and indicated that there ...
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Texas Instruments Looking Less Conservative (TXN, BRCM, QCOM, MRVL)

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 3:40 pm

Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN) has just given its second quarter update, one of the first seen by major chip companies.  The chip giant sees $2.3 billion to $2.5 billion ...
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Apple’s Aggressive Pricing Risks (AAPL, T, RIMM, PALM, S, VZ)

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 2:59 pm

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is having more than its share of free press from the World Wide Developers Conference this week.  The big new push here seems to be on ...
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Cramer’s SLM Double, Actually A Triple Or More (SLM)

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 2:04 pm

Jim Cramer is loved and hated  by many on both sides, but despite the hype he makes and gets accused of he rarely calls for a stock to double.  That ...
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How To Measure Obama’s 600,000 New Jobs

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 10:39 am

President Obama says that he plans to accelerate portions of the stimulus bill in an attempt to add jobs to the economy more quickly. The new goal is to create ...
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Analysts Duel Over Google Values (GOOG)

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 8:28 am

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is still watched by just about every trader under the sun.  This morning we have two analyst research calls that differ greatly.  There is a raised ...
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McDonald’s Seeing Some Slowing Growth (MCD)

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 8:11 am

McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD) is trading lower after the fast food giant posted some mixed same store sales data for the month of May.  The golden arches posted +5.1% same ...
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Despite the Fed’s Protests, Growth Does Not Cause Inflation

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 7:20 am

John Tamny of RealClearMarkets Inflation's decline in the '80s thanks to a resurgent dollar seemingly proved once and for all that it is always monetary in nature--specifically the result of ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (ARG, T, GOOG, HOV, MELI, SSL, STO, TSM, TRI, WSM)

Posted: June 8, 2009 at 6:53 am

These are the top ten analyst calls for research upgrades, downgrades, and initiations which we have seen from Wall Street early this Monday morning: Airgas (ARG) Started as Buy at ...
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