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Monthly Archives: June 2009

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ADP Data Supports Above 9% Unemployment Rate

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 7:22 am

ADP's jobs data is showing an expected jobs decrease of some 532,000 for the month of May. The data for April also showed that the job losses were revised down ...
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Data Domain Bidding War Heats Up (DDUP, NTAP, EMC)

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 7:12 am

The war for Data Domain, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDUP) is heating up.  It was first NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) that offered to buy the company.  Then EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) came ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (BBT, CMA, FEIC, GOOG, HBI, HD, LOW, NEM, PLT, ROP, TGT, TSCO, WMT)

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 6:43 am

These are top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research notes we have seen from Wall Street early this Wednesday morning: BB&T (BBT) Raised to Market Perform at KBW. Comerica (CMA) ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (AET, CAH, DAKT, GIL, GPI, KGC)

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 6:39 am

These are the top early analyst downgrades and cautious research calls we have seen this Wednesday morning from Wall Street firms: Aetna (AET) Cut to Market Perform at Credit Suisse. ...
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By Not Competing With Each Other For Workers, Big Tech Firms May Have Broken The Law

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 5:16 am

Antitrust officials have come up with an interesting application of the monopoly laws. They believe that large tech firms like Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), and Yahoo! (YHOO) conspired to keep ...
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Facebook May Have Found A Way To Make Money

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 5:03 am

Facebook is not likely to make much money selling advertising. Marketers find it hard to target users on social networks. The cannot be neatly grouped like the people who go ...
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Saving The Car Industry While Killing Employment

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 4:44 am

GM's Chapter 11 filing shows that it will hold onto its highly successful Latin American and Chinese operations. From the standpoint of its new shareholders that makes sense. Both of ...
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Nintendo Claims It Still Beats Rivals, Even If Evidence Says Otherwise

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 4:26 am

Nintendo says it is doing remarkable well, especially in America. Recent data from the industry show that sales of the company's Wii have slowed considerably. Sony (SNE) and Microsoft (MSFT) ...
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Starbucks (SBUX) Changes Almost Its Whole Menu

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 4:13 am

Starbucks (SBUX) does not seem to know how to leave well-enough alone. It is a coffee chain. But, it has tried to sell music, DVDs, coffee machines, and breakfast and ...
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What If Everyone Does Not Want A Smartphone?

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 3:52 am

Walt Mossberg, the tech columnist of The Wall Street Journal, made a good point recently. Smartphones like the Apple (AAPL)iPhone are not phones at all. They are miniature portable computers. ...
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Chrysler Gets Too Small Too Fast

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 3:48 am

There are suddenly a lot of companies that want to be the small, low-cost, nimble niche car company that builds vehicles for what used to be an American market that ...
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Media Digest 6/3/2008 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 3:07 am

Reuters:   A survey shows the global stimulus spending lacks direction. Reuters:   The race for "green" cars is still wide open. Reuters:   GM (GM) and Chrysler will face Senate scrutiny are ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 6/3/2009

Posted: June 3, 2009 at 2:30 am

Markets in Asia were mostly higher. The Nikkei rose .3% to 9,742. The Hang Seng was up 2.7% to 17,868. The Shanhai Composite rose 1.7% to 2,779. At the open ...
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Tivo’s (TIVO) Best Day, Ever

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 6:50 pm

Tivo (TIVO) got its start as the original digital video recording device company. Consumer electronics hobbyists bought Tivos by the hundreds of thousands to put on top of their TVs ...
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JetBlue Raising Cash (JBLU)

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 3:13 pm

JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ: JBLU) has announced that it intends to offer some 20 million shares of common stock.  It also plans to offer an aggregate of $150 million in ...
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