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Monthly Archives: July 2009

Banks and Brokers… Major Earnings on Deck (GS, JPM, SCHW, BAC, C)

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 12:30 pm

This is the real week for earnings season where the floodgates open.  That is particularly the case for some of the top banks, investment banks, and brokers.  Goldman Sachs Group, ...
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Netbook Sales Surge, Leaving Some Companies Behind

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 11:44 am

Computer research firm NPD expects netbook sales to rise to 20% of total laptop sales this year. That would put unit sales just shy of 33 million, a increase of 100% ...
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Solar Dilemma: How Much Could Hoku Fetch In Sale? (HOKU)

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 11:24 am

Hoku Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOKU - News) has been looking for additional finding for its wholly-owned unit Hoku Materials, Inc.  This was established to manufacture and sell polysilicon for the solar ...
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Biotech & BioHealth Business Daily (PFE, MRK, BAX, BDSI, SPPI, GNBT, AVII, CEGE, BBH, GILD, LLY, SNY, BMY, OSIP)

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 10:25 am

Here are some of today's top stories affecting key drug and biotech stocks, accompanied with links through to more detailed information and analysis at BioHealthInvestor.com: New short-interest data suggest traders ...
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Will June PPI Even Be Relevant?

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 10:13 am

Tuesday's report on the Producer Price Index used as the gauge against wholesale inflation may mark one of the more important trader events outside of earnings.  But there is a ...
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Comparing the Two GM’s: NewCo vs. Old GM (GMGMQ)

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 8:55 am

General Motors is still much of the talk since it exited bankruptcy protection early Friday.  This was a quick bankruptcy process and was well ahead of historic bankruptcy timelines, avoiding ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (BAC, C, BEAT, OSIP, BEAT, SNDK, RINO, CPHD, JASO)

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 8:08 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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Goldman Sachs & Meredith Whitney: The Good Bad Call (GS)

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 7:31 am

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is seeing some buying interest based upon an influential analyst call.  Meredith Whitney Advisory has raised the rating on this investment bank and ...
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For the Airlines to Profit, Government Must Allow Them

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 7:17 am

John Tamny of RealClearMarkets When seasoned investors contemplate the airline industry, it's often said that more money has been lost on investments than has ever been made. It could realistically ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BBY, CPLA, GS, HGSI, MAR, SNDK, SGMS)

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 6:50 am

These are the top pre-market upgrades and downgrades seen early this Monday morning ahead of the earnings season rush: Best Buy (BBY) Raised to Outperform at Oppenheimer. Capella Education (CPLA) ...
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MySpace To Become Entertainment Site

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 5:18 am

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. MySpace, which has lost the crown as the world's largest social network to Facebook and fired about a third of its ...
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Its Fortunes In Tatters, BusinessWeek Goes Up For Sale

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 5:06 am

It was only a matter of time before major American magazines, flagships of the national media business, began to close or be put on the auction block. BusinessWeek is for ...
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Microsoft (MSFT) Plans To Stop Google (GOOG) In Its Tracks

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 4:54 am

The world of Google (GOOG) is a world where PC software applications run on the Internet with the heavy work being done by Google's servers. The latest Google software, Chrome, ...
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Businesses May Rejects Microsoft (MSFT) Windows 7

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 4:36 am

A number of businesses and government enterprises elected not to upgrade to Vista, the current Microsoft (MSFT) computer operating system. It was considered a flawed product and the cost of ...
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The Case For Unavoidable Increases In The Stimulus Package

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 4:21 am

The San Francisco Chronicle recently wrote that only $9.4 billion of the $50 billion earmarked for the state has made it to the treasury. California has to wait for the ...
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