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Monthly Archives: July 2009

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Beacon’s $43 Million Loan, Possible Game-Changer (BCON)

Posted: July 2, 2009 at 9:44 am

This morning we caught an alert for volume and trading activity at VSInvestor.com in Beacon Power Corporation because of a government award of a loan commitment.  This has now been ...
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Misguided Optimism in Double-Digit Unemployment Rates

Posted: July 2, 2009 at 7:37 am

The Labor Department has a slew of data on the employment front this morning.  Actually, it is the unemployment front.  The data for unemployment in June showed a rate of ...
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JPMorgan Solar Picks and Pans (ENER, ESLR, FSLR, ASTI, SPWRA)

Posted: July 2, 2009 at 7:22 am

JPMorgan has decided to make some key solar ratings changes this morning.  The firm is cautious on the valuation of some in the position of a declining market trend right ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BCSI, CSCO, CAL, DAL, DYN, HA, MTL, SRE, LUV, TTM)

Posted: July 2, 2009 at 6:31 am

These are the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen this Thursday.  There are going to be fewer and fewer research notes from now to what is most ...
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Another Brilliant Search Move From Microsoft: Bing To Include Tweets

Posted: July 2, 2009 at 5:08 am

Bing is arguably the best search product Microsoft (MSFT) has ever launched. It has gotten good to excellent reviews. A number of internet reseach firms show that Bing is picking ...
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Anti-Smoking Drugs Could Cause Suicide (PFE)(GSK)

Posted: July 2, 2009 at 4:59 am

It is hard to say whether a person is better off stopping smoking and lessening their chances of a heart attack or killing themselves.  Some of the anti-smoking drugs from ...
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K-Mart To Offer Discounts To The Unemployed

Posted: July 2, 2009 at 4:46 am

Several car companies have offered to make monthly payments for new auto buyers who lose jobs. Hyundai even has a program to take some vehicles back if their owners can't ...
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Confirmed: Goldman Sachs (GS) Workers Could Make $700,000 Each

Posted: July 2, 2009 at 4:34 am

Goldman Sachs (GS) recently said that media reports that its employees would make huge sums based on the firm's 2009 earnings were not true. It turns out that they probably ...
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Paying For Ethics

Posted: July 2, 2009 at 4:01 am

The SEC’s inspector general has suggested to Congress that the government should pay a bounty to individuals who turn in financial felons, a new wrinkle among the attempts to keep ...
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Phase II Of The Recession Looms In 2010

Posted: July 2, 2009 at 3:54 am

The recovery seemed so certain just a month ago. The American economy would be out of the recession before the end of the year. A number of arrows have pointed ...
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Media Digest 7/2/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 2, 2009 at 3:04 am

Reuters:   California declared a financial emergency. Reuters:   An SEC attorney raised concern about a Madoff report in 2004. Reuters:   Auto parts supplier Lear filed for bankruptcy. Reuters:   NYC apartment sales ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 7/2/2009

Posted: July 2, 2009 at 2:24 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .6% to 9,875. The Hang Seng rose .5% to 18,461. The Shanghai Composite was up 1.7% to 3,060. At the open in ...
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Does Petrobras Need More Capital? (PBR)

Posted: July 1, 2009 at 3:30 pm

Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. (NYSE: PBR), or Petrobras, raised $1 billion in a new note offering this morning for its Petrobras International Finance Co.  Or did it?  We originally had this ...
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A Gross Exagerration of Future Deflation

Posted: July 1, 2009 at 2:41 pm

Pimco's Bill Gross on Wednesday released yet another self-serving, but intelligently written diatribe that suggests personal consumption may be constrained for a generation, and all asset classes other than ...
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Rite Aid’s Turnaround Looking More Likely (RAD)

Posted: July 1, 2009 at 2:10 pm

Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD) may have just made the last or one of the last announcements that saved the reputation as far as it being a stock that investors ...
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