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Monthly Archives: July 2009

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China’s Car Sales Explode Nearly 50%

Posted: July 9, 2009 at 4:22 am

The notion that the US is the world's largest car market is gone, perhaps forever. China's light vehicle sales rose 48% in June to 872,900. The world's most populous country ...
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China: The World’s Internal Combustion Machine

Posted: July 9, 2009 at 3:56 am

George Soros, at 78, has been one of the world’s premier money managers for years. He is no longer at the head of the hedge fund performance table.  Money managers ...
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The Health Benefits Tax Slaughterhouse

Posted: July 9, 2009 at 3:49 am

Economists with fringe views of the tax system argue that all taxes are regressive. Tax a business and it will not hire more workers or distribute profits back to its ...
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Media Digest 7/9/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 9, 2009 at 3:07 am

Reuters:   The promise of mobile TV is being destroyed by smartphone use of software applications. Reuters:   More attacks on websites in the West are expected and North Korea is suspected. ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 7/9/2009

Posted: July 9, 2009 at 2:30 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei was down 1.3% to 9,291. The Hang Seng was off a fraction to 17,719. HSBC (HBC) fell. The Shanghai Composite was up 1.3% ...
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Alcoa Able To Sell Less-Bad As Good (AA)

Posted: July 8, 2009 at 3:30 pm

Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) posted a narrower-than-expected loss of -$0.26 EPS on a non-GAAP basis and -$0.32 EPS from continuing operations.  Revenues were down sharply to $4.24 billion (from $7.62 ...
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Hot Topic: Twilight Can’t Help Forever (HOTT)

Posted: July 8, 2009 at 3:15 pm

Hot Topic, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOTT) is continuing to lose its momentum.  The company had been a huge winner for being tied to the  apparel from the Twilight teen vampire movie.  ...
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Did Amazon.com’s Kindle Already Peak? (AMZN, SNE)

Posted: July 8, 2009 at 2:13 pm

There has been a lot of coverage of the Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Kindle e-book reader.  But what happens when you hear there has been yet another price cut on the ...
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Cybersecurity: Obama’s Next Big-Ticket Agenda Item

Posted: July 8, 2009 at 12:33 pm

It's taken a back seat to health care, but one of the next big agenda items for President Obama's administration is cybersecurity, a priority that is becoming all the ...
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What Is Macau IPO Really Worth to Las Vegas Sands (LVS, MPEL, WYNN)

Posted: July 8, 2009 at 12:21 pm

Las Vegas Sands Corp. (NYSE: LVS) has been all over the news today on reports that the company may conduct an initial public offering for its Macau assets.  The company ...
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Further Evidence That Alcoa Has Low Correlation To Earnings Season Trends (AA, SPY, XME)

Posted: July 8, 2009 at 11:10 am

Alcoa, Inc. (NYSE: AA) is one of the first stocks that kicks off earnings season every quarter.  Today is its actual earnings report after the closing bell.  What is interesting ...
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BioHealth Business Daily (AMGN, NVS, AMLN, LLY, ALKS, NVO, LLY, VICL, SCLN, ARNA)

Posted: July 8, 2009 at 9:47 am

These are some of the top stories affecting key drug and biotech stocks that are covered with more in-depth details and analysis this morning at BioHealthInvestor.com: Amgen Inc’s (Nasdaq: AMGN)’s ...
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Repeat of Oil Inventory Trends (USO, OIL)

Posted: July 8, 2009 at 9:38 am

The weekly oil inventories data came out of the U.S. Department of Energy at 10:30 AM EST this morning.  Crude Oil was already down under $62.00 on global economic worries, ...
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Day Trader Alerts (AMGN, NVS, MSCS, DRYS, ARYX, XNPT, ARNA, BPZ)

Posted: July 8, 2009 at 8:10 am

These are some of the top stocks for day traders and active traders to watch based on pre-market and after-hours volume activity with links to more detailed price and volume ...
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G8 Worries Over Whether Stimulus Money Is Being “Delivered”

Posted: July 8, 2009 at 7:43 am

Most analysis of the stimulus packages put together by France and the huge $585 billion Chinese program to keep its GDP growing showthat the capital is already making its way into ...
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