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Monthly Archives: July 2009

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A Tax On The “Rich” To Remake American Healthcare

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 4:10 am

Having money is not what it used to be. According to several media reports, the billionaire mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, lost millions of dollars in the market ...
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China Resorts To Old School Tactics After Rio Tinto Rejection

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 4:04 am

It is possible that several employees from global mining company Rio Tinto (RTP) were spying on the Chinese to gain an advantage through access to secret iron ore price information ...
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Media Digest 7/13/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 3:10 am

Reuters:  Social media such as Twitter may not be worth as much as many people believe because of challenges they face in bringing in revenue. Reuters:   The arrests of Rio ...
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Asia Markets 7/13/2009 (CHU)(AAPL)

Posted: July 13, 2009 at 2:26 am

Markets across Asia dropped sharply The Nikkei was off 2.6% to 9,050. The Hang Seng was down 2.6% to 17,241. China Unicom (CHU) fell because a handset deal with Apple ...
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Yahoo! (YHOO) Holds Huge Edge In Online Gaming: GSN Games, Spil Games, BetaWave

Posted: July 12, 2009 at 5:46 am

Americans are turning to cheap alternatives to expensive video games by finding interactive games online. These game are usually much less expensive to play that the ones consumers have to ...
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Economic Indicator: Lingerie And Sex Toy Sales Flop

Posted: July 11, 2009 at 9:48 am

By Patricia Yarberry Allen, MD The loss of sexual interest among menopausal women has clearly become no longer newsworthy in this time of falling stock prices and rising unemployment. Otherwise, ...
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uncle sam

Healthcare: Another Scheme To Tax The “Rich”

Posted: July 11, 2009 at 7:26 am

Having money is not what it used to be. According to several media reports, the billionaire mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, lost millions of dollars in the market ...
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Short Sellers Target Big Financial Names (BAC)(AIG)(WFC)(FRE)

Posted: July 11, 2009 at 5:24 am

Short sellers upped their investments in stocks of the most prominent financial firms. Short interest in Bank of America (BAC), AIG (AIG), Wells Fargo (WFC), and Freddie Mac (FRE) all ...
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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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