Monthly Archives: June 2009

Moody’s Takes Another Swipe At US Sovereign Rating, Sort Of

Posted: June 23, 2009 at 7:29 am

Before you think there is a reaffirmed "Aaa" rating from Moody's Investor Services, this was spoken at a conference. Reuters reported that the Moody's team head over the Sovereign Risk ...
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What Van Hoisington’s Low Inflation Outlook Misses

Posted: June 23, 2009 at 7:14 am

By John Tamny of RealClearMarkets In a recent speech before the clients of research firm Applied Finance Group, Entropy Economics president Bret Swanson showed an ad from 1989 which featured ...
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A Surprise Upgrade of Motorola (MOT, PALM)

Posted: June 23, 2009 at 7:10 am

If you can believe it, an analyst is raising the rating on Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT). It is not even a boutique brokerage firm. Bank of America Merrill Lynch has ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (BHP, BPI, CAG, COP, ETFC, FDX, MRVL, RTP, SONC, SBUX)

Posted: June 23, 2009 at 6:25 am

These are the top ten early bird analyst upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street early this Tuesday morning with more than two hours until the market opens. BHP Billiton (BHP) ...
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Intel (INTC) To Start Handset Chip Price War, Help Mobile Consumers

Posted: June 23, 2009 at 5:16 am

Intel (INTC) means to push deeply into the mobile chip market. That is bad news for the two companies that own most of the territory now--TI (TXN) and Qualcomm (QCOM). ...
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Will Apple (AAPL) iPhone Sales Cause A New Recession?

Posted: June 23, 2009 at 4:56 am

Apple (AAPL) sold more than one million of its new iPhones over the weekend. The costs of those handsets could have been $300 million, and that does not include the ...
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Toyota (TM): 100 MPG By 2015, Or Bust

Posted: June 23, 2009 at 4:37 am

Toyota's (TM) new management means to use every tool at its disposal to bring down the amount of fuel its cars need to operate as the price of oil continues to ...
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Wal-Mart (WMT) Under Siege For Extravagant Ad Claim

Posted: June 23, 2009 at 4:22 am

Shoppers can save $700 billion a year shopping in Wal-Mart (WMT), according to the company. It actually can't come up with facts to support that claim. Wal-Mart would have to know ...
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When The Banks Need Their TARP Funds Back

Posted: June 23, 2009 at 3:49 am

Deutsche Bank says that the commercial real estate market in America will not recover until 2017. Richard Parkus, Deutsche Bank head of Commercial Mortgage-backed Securities and Asset-Backed Securities Synthetics Research, ...
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The Un-Detroiting Of America

Posted: June 23, 2009 at 3:45 am

The latest JD Power new vehicle survey, the Miss America pageant of the auto industry, showed the quality of US cars closing the gap with Japanese models to the point ...
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Media Digest 6/23/2009

Posted: June 23, 2009 at 3:18 am

Reuters: Toyota's (TM) new management has a rocky road. Reuters: A poll shows confidence in Obama's economic plans drops. Reuters: Apple's (AAPL) Jobs was at work. Reuters: Ford (F) and ...
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Rambus Giving Some Up & Raising Cash (RMBS)

Posted: June 22, 2009 at 3:11 pm

Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS) is tempering some of its guidance, which may lend at least some additional credence that investors need to keep justifying higher prices on news that is ...
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A Reverse Stock Split in ETFs, More Likely To Come (MWN, FAS, FAZ)

Posted: June 22, 2009 at 2:15 pm

Direxion issued a press release noting that it was conducting a one-for-two reverse stock split on for its triple-leverage ETF called the Direxion Daily Mid Cap Bear 3X Shares (NYSE: ...
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Lowering Mortgage Market Expectations

Posted: June 22, 2009 at 1:42 pm

There is a study from the Mortgage Bankers Association showing that the outlook for the mortgage market in 2009 is going to be weaker than it previously expected. Not by ...
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Medicare Winners Under New Healthcare Plans (MRK, PFE, AET, CI, CVH, HUM, UNH, WLP)

Posted: June 22, 2009 at 12:21 pm

Everyone is trying to figure out who the winners and losers are likely to be under a watered-down healthcare program under the Obama administration and with a Democratic Congress. What ...
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