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Daily Archives: July 10, 2009

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Short Sellers Make A Big Push Into Tech Stocks (CSCO)(PALM)(SYMC)(RIMM)(DELL)(MSFT)

Posted: July 10, 2009 at 4:17 pm

A number of short sellers are not buying the tech rally and have substantially increased their positions in Microsoft (MSFT), Dell (DELL), Cisco (CSCO), Symantec (SYMC), and Palm (PALM). Among ...
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New Fertilizer Dump, India and USDA (POT, MOS, AGU, CF, TRA, TNH, IPI, MOO)

Posted: July 10, 2009 at 1:19 pm

Fertilizer stocks just can't catch a break.  If it isn't an official earnings warning to watch out for or the stock market and economic growth concerns, then it government data.  ...
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Lower Oil Begets Lower Rig Counts… Again (BHI, USO, OIL)

Posted: July 10, 2009 at 12:37 pm

It looked for a moment as though the oil and gas rig counts were finally stabilizing.  Prices had recovered sharply from lows and were challenging $70.00.  But as you can ...
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Cisco Clarifies Layoff Report (CSCO)

Posted: July 10, 2009 at 12:17 pm

There have been many reports today regarding the Thomas Weisel call for more layoffs out of Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), which was never really clear or certain if the ...
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Is Cisco Having More Layoffs? (CSCO)

Posted: July 10, 2009 at 10:47 am

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) may be back to conducting layoffs.  A report from Thomas Weisel says that Cisco is in the process of cutting another 1,500 to 2,000 workers ...
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Biotech Business Daily (BIIB, VRTX, ALNY, STEM)

Posted: July 10, 2009 at 10:07 am

Here are some of the top stories affecting key drug and biotech stocks this Friday.  We also have links through to more detailed coverage and analysis at BioHealthInvestor.com: Biogen Idec ...
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GM CFO Outlines IPO Timeline… Or Re-IPO (GMGMQ, GM)

Posted: July 10, 2009 at 9:52 am

Everyone wants to know when an initial public offering of General Motors (GMGMQ) will occur.  Its emergence from bankruptcy has only expedited the curiosity of when the company will be ...
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Consumer Sentiment Heading The Wrong Way

Posted: July 10, 2009 at 9:12 am

The University of Michigan has reported its preliminary consumer sentiment report for July.  It seems that the "confidence" portion may be limping back towards impotence.  The mid-July report showed a ...
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Rosetta Stone Goes After Google in Adwords Suit (RST, GOOG)

Posted: July 10, 2009 at 8:55 am

By now just about everybody knows who Rosetta Stone, Inc. (NYSE:RST) is for its leadership in language learning and translation software.  It seems that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has gotten ...
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Top Day Trader Alert Stocks (CIT, DELL, WDC, DDSS, INFY, ASML)

Posted: July 10, 2009 at 8:06 am

These are some of the top stocks to watch for active trading today based on pre-market and after-hours volume activity.  There are links through to more detailed coverage and volume ...
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GM: Out Of the Chapter 11 Frying Pan And Into The Market Fire

Posted: July 10, 2009 at 8:00 am

The "best" parts of GM were transferred to a newly created company, owned almost two-thirds by taxpayers, at about 6.30 AM today. The federal government will end up stuffing a ...
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Goldman Sachs Upgrades & Downgrades in Tech (IBM, EMC, NTAP, CA, DELL, ARW, HPQ, STX, WDC, AAPL, MSFT, ORCL, SYMC)

Posted: July 10, 2009 at 7:49 am

Goldman Sachs is out with some key calls in technology sector today.  While some calls are positive, our take on this is more of a cautious stance due to the ...
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Buffett Guiding Down Earnings Estimates… Unofficially (BRK-A, BRK-B)

Posted: July 10, 2009 at 7:10 am

Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) has been out on just about every media outlet that he can reach people on to discuss the notion of ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (MT, BBT, EVVV, GHL, WFR, NZ, PBR, SY, STI)

Posted: July 10, 2009 at 6:24 am

These are the top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls we have seen early this Friday morning with more than two hours until the market opens for trading: Arcelor ...
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The Chinese Economic Rebound May Have To Wait

Posted: July 10, 2009 at 5:20 am

China's exports fell again in June, this time by 21% according to the Xinhua News Agency. The news means that goods and services being sent abroad by the world's most ...
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