Monthly Archives: July 2009

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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World Banks Warns The Worst May Not Be Over

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 3:57 am

World Bank president, Robert Zoellick, was born in Naperville, Illinois. He was educated at Harvard Law School and worked at Goldman Sachs and the State Department but still has the ...
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Toyota Keeps Its Edge By Pushing Through Troubles

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 3:46 am

Media in Japan recently reported that Toyota (TM) will begin to produce its new plug-in hybrid in 2012. Toyota will be using lithium-ion batteries which it can produce efficiently in ...
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Media Digest 7/7/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 2:55 am

Reuters: Japanes Topix index is expect to rise to 1,000. Reuters: The US may need a second stimulus package. Reuters: Hospitals have agreed to contribute $155 billion over ten years ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 7/7/2009

Posted: July 7, 2009 at 2:21 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei was off .3% to 9,648. Toyota (TM) declined. The Hang Seng was down .1% to 17,959. China Unicom (CHU) rose on rumors that ...
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