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Daily Archives: July 6, 2009

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Double-Dip Evidence: CEO’s Looking Less Confident

Posted: July 6, 2009 at 3:24 pm

It is hard to consider a report with only 227 polled as being a total bogey for the whims and will of the nation.  But Chief Executive magazine's CEO Index ...
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Advanced Technology, Israeli Blank Check Company Bites the Dust (AXC)

Posted: July 6, 2009 at 2:53 pm

Advanced Technology Acquisition Corp. (NYSE/AMEX: AXC) is a special purpose acquisition company, or blank check company, that is about to no longer be.  The company has announced that its stockholders ...
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Tempering Expectations Ahead of Base Earnings (AA, CVX, SGR)

Posted: July 6, 2009 at 12:46 pm

It is still too soon to be counting the last revisions for major technology companies reporting calendar Q2-2009 earnings season.  But the trend set at the end of last week ...
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Cell Phone Carrier Attack (ATT, AAPL, VZ, RIMM, S, PALM, MOT)

Posted: July 6, 2009 at 12:43 pm

What started as a query to the FCC last month by Sen. John Kerry, (D-Mass.), and a handful of other senators asking whether exclusive deals between carriers and cell phone ...
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What The Ultimate Data Domain Buyer Really Wins (DDUP, EMC, NTAP, SYMC, CSCO, JNPR)

Posted: July 6, 2009 at 11:57 am

Data Domain, Inc. (NASDAQ: DDUP) keeps getting higher and higher bids in the bidding war that has erupted between EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) and NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP).  Interestingly enough, ...
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When Solar Leaders Fall More Than Oil Giants… On Oil (FSLR, STP, SPWRA, TAN, XOM, SLB, OIH)

Posted: July 6, 2009 at 10:11 am

Solar stocks are again trading no differently than a leveraged bet on oil prices.  This is something we have noted on many occasions and with oil down by another -$2.59 ...
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An Almost-Positive Take on ISM ‘Services’

Posted: July 6, 2009 at 9:18 am

This morning came the report from the Institute of Supply Management for non-manufacturing in the month of June.  The good news is that this was slightly better than expectations.  The ...
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Is Nextwave Giving Away the Shop? (WAVE)

Posted: July 6, 2009 at 9:03 am

NextWave Wireless Inc. (NASDAQ: WAVE) is trading up today on good news.  The problem is that the news around the company is that it may be holding a fire sale.  ...
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Did Goldman Sachs’ Secret Trading Codes Get Out? (GS)

Posted: July 6, 2009 at 8:33 am

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is said to have either the best in-house and proprietary trading models or at least the best of the large bulge bracket firms.  This ...
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Yingli Secures New Credit Facilities, Further Complicates Structure (YGE)

Posted: July 6, 2009 at 7:52 am

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) is seeing shares get clipped a bit this morning.  Some may be on weak energy prices taking the hot air out of ...
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Obama’s Paygo Is Good Rhetoric, Awful Policy

Posted: July 6, 2009 at 7:24 am

John Tamny of RealClearMarkets Perhaps in an effort to shore up his budgetary bona fides during a period of reckless spending, President Obama recently announced his goal to put the ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (BEN, KLAC, NVLS, LRCX, JWN, OSK, STX, WDC, S)

Posted: July 6, 2009 at 6:35 am

These are the top analyst upgrades and positive research calls from Wall Street this Monday morning with about two hours until the market opens: Franklin Resources (BEN) Raised to Overweight ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (CTXS, DSCO, EV, FII, FPL, RAX)

Posted: July 6, 2009 at 6:31 am

These are this Monday's top pre-market analyst downgrades and cautious research calls from Wall Street with more than two hours until the market opens: Citrix Systems (CTXS) Cut to Perform ...
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GM, Finally Restructured, May Not Be Saved

Posted: July 6, 2009 at 5:11 am

GM's most valuable assets have finally been sold to a company controlled by the federal government. A judge approved the transaction early today. The "new GM" should be out of ...
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Best Buy (BBY) Goes “Green”, Wastes Money

Posted: July 6, 2009 at 4:58 am

Best Buy (BBY) has decided that people want "green" products, or it has decided that it looks good to sell them. It may take awhile to find out if the ...
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