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Monthly Archives: June 2009

A Second Look At The Coffee Craze (GMCR, DDRX, CBOU, PEET, JVA, SBUX, BAGL)

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 1:31 pm

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) has nearly defied logic, even for a market where the news has become irrelevant and bad news and good news alike lead to ...
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Stranger The Fiction: GM (GM) Posts Better May Results Than Toyota (TM)

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 1:11 pm

GM (GM) is supposed to the poorly managed bankrupt car company that has trouble producing vehicles that the domestic market will buy. Toyota (TM) is the nibble competitor with the ...
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Time Spent On Twitter Up 3712% In One Year

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 12:20 pm

It's a shame Twitter has not figured out a way to bring in revenue.  According to audience research firm Nielsen, the number of minutes spent on Twitter by its users ...
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Netbooks With Android, Likely A Gimmick Over Substance (GOOG, MSFT, DELL)

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 11:32 am

There is rather a large amount of buzz out there, and perhaps some confusion, today about Acer's use of the Android operating system from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) for netbooks.  ...
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Loral Chairman Files To Sell Shares (LORL)

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 10:28 am

Loral Space & Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: LORL) has just filed to sell close to $300 million worth of voting and non-voting shares of common stock in an SEC filing.  The ...
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Cramer and Over 5,000 Formally Seek Short Sale Changes

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 9:45 am

There has been an ongoing war between those who think short selling should be allowed under any circumstances and those who want the practice curbed.  That argument is likely to ...
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Another $15 Billion In New Capital (AXP, JPM, MS, BAC)

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 8:35 am

The waves of capital raising continues.  American Express Company (NYSE: AXP), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS), and Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) are just ...
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e-Book & Kindle Suppliers Merging (AMZN, SNE, GOOG, QCOM)

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 7:49 am

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has received much publicity from its e-book reader, the Kindle.  It has also taken criticism.  Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) has let its e-book reader get lapped ...
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IPO FILING: Douyuan, A Chinese Water Play (DGW)

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 7:04 am

Duoyuan Global Water Inc. has filed as a foreign issuer to come public in the U.S. via an initial public offering.  The proposed offering is for up to $86,250,000 via ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (AGN, CHU, ENDP, FLR, GD, LMT, MDZ, NETL, NUVA, SGR)

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 6:36 am

These are the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls we have seen from Wall Street this Tuesday morning: Allergan (AGN) Raised to Overweight at Thomas Weisel. China Unicom ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (ASTI, RATE, CHL, JNPR, MTL, SNP, TOT)

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 6:33 am

These are the top pre-market analyst downgrades and cautious research calls we have seen from Wall Street early this Tuesday morning: Ascent Solar (ASTI) Cut to Neutral at Merriman Curhan ...
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Big Investors Cashing Out Of Bank Stocks Could Kill Share Prices

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 5:02 am

Abu Dhabi investors plan to sell their stake in Barclays (BCS) for about $6.8 billion. They have only had the shares a year but their return is likely to be ...
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The Treasury Should Have Invested In Toyota (TM)

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 4:38 am

There are enough smart financiers and former Wall St. veterans in the Treasury Department so that the staff there should know how to hedge a bet. The Administration has taken the ...
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An Ethics Violation: Citigroup (C) To Skip Severance Payments

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 4:21 am

The Wall Street Journal reports that five executives who left Citigroup (C) will not get the balance of their severance payments which total several million dollars. The reason behind the ...
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Will Microsoft (MSFT) Spend $10 Billion On Bing?

Posted: June 2, 2009 at 3:47 am

The debut of the new Microsoft (MSFT) search technology Bing was greeted by mostly positive reviews. The only legitimate complaint about the launch is that the world’s largest software company ...
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