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Daily Archives: July 7, 2009

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Morgan Stanley’s Credit Analyst Lends Weight To Equity Fears (MS, DFS, RGS, KLIC, AAI)

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 3:49 pm

An appetite for risky assets that has sent small-cap and emerging market stocks and junk bonds flying since March now is getting more scrutiny from a market heavyweight.  Greg Peters, ...
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ETF/ETN Investors Have To Watch CFTC Speculation/Limitation Rules (USO, UNG, GAZ, OIL, JJC, GLD)

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 12:46 pm

We are witnessing a pivotal moment in investing history.  After a decade of opening up all markets to the public and to more speculators with exchange traded products, some might ...
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BioHealth Business Daily (CI, AET, MYL, JAZZ, PTIE, GSK, ALNY, FOLD, HALO, AOB, STEM)

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 11:03 am

Here are some of the top stories affecting key drug and biotech stocks that are covered in-depth today at BioHealthInvestor.com: Cigna corp. (NYSE: CI), Aetna Inc. (NYSE: AET), and other ...
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Quantifying Triple Leverage ETF Performance vs. Target Index (FAS, FAZ, BGU, BGZ, ERX, ERY)

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 10:04 am

Direxion has issued its semi-annual report for its triple leverage ETF holders and there are some interesting revelations here.  While there are many others covered, we wanted to demonstrate some ...
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Health Care Companies Play Let’s Make A Deal (CI, AET, HUM, UNH, WLP, CVH, THC, HLS)

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 9:21 am

Managed health care company stocks are rising Tuesday despite press reports that hospitals will contribute $155 billion over 10 years toward insuring the nearly 50 million Americans who do ...
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Day Traders & GM Stock: Drag Race To Zero (GMGMQ)

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 8:45 am

How many bankrupt companies have OTC and Pink Sheet stocks before they disappear for the long haul?  Enron, Lehman, Adelphia... General Motors (GMGMQ) is on this list. Some of these ...
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Hansen Medical Credibility As Weak As The Stock (HNSN, ISRG)

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 7:50 am

Hansen Medical Inc. (NASDAQ: HNSN) is becoming the Boulevard of Broken Dreams in the land of speculative medical instrument stocks.  We gave a volume spike alert at VSInvestor.com on this ...
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The Silver Lining within Rising Jobless Numbers

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 7:39 am

By John Tamny of RealClearMarkets   Last Thursday's news of yet another increase in the national rate of unemployment was predictably met with quite a few downcast headlines. The Wall ...
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T. Boone Pickens Oil Targets For 2009 and 2010 (CLNE)

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 6:44 am

Today marked the one-year anniversary of the launch of The Pickens Plan.  Oil magnate T. Boone Pickens was giving a large update and gave his oil targets for 2009 and ...
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Top Early Bird Analyst Calls (APC, NLY, CTL, KEY, INTC, LSI, MMM, MRVL, STO, STLD)

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 6:12 am

These are the top pre-market early-bird analyst calls we have seen with about two and a half hours until the market opens this Tuesday morning: Anadarko Petroleum (APC) Raised to ...
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Sony (SNE) Gets Into Netbooks Late

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 5:13 am

Sony (SNE) never got into the multimedia handheld business the way that Apple (AAPL) did with the iPod. The Japanese company's joint venture with Ericsson that builds and markets handsets ...
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Consumer Reports May Start To Fire Staff

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 4:57 am

Consumer Reports, the non-profit advocacy magazine owned by the Consumers Union, may fire 21 editors and product reviewers if its writer's union does not agree to sacrifice raises. According to ...
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China Economy Defies Gravity

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 4:42 am

It does not make any sense that China's GDP is growing, unless the government is buying that growth with its stimulus package. If that is true, it is remarkable how ...
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World’s Oldest Bible To Go Digital

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 4:24 am

One of the wonderful things about technology is that it can make the old new again. Parts of the oldest Christian Bible, probably written in the fourth century, will be ...
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Palm (PALM) Picks European Vendors For Pre

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 4:10 am

Analysts in the United States are already saying that sales of the Palm (PALM) Pre by exclusive distributor Sprint (S) are starting to slow. Fortunately for Palm shareholders, the handset ...
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