Quantcast

Monthly Archives: July 2009

oil

CFTC: Regulators Are Worse Than Speculators

Posted: July 28, 2009 at 5:32 am

It is impossible to get an accurate view of any trading market when the regulators who monitor it cannot keep track of how the market operates. According to a reports ...
Read Full Story »
bear

The Era Of Layoffs Gets Renewed Vigor

Posted: July 28, 2009 at 5:00 am

Analysts have hoped that the rate at which Americans become unemployed will slow in the second half of 2009. There has been some evidence that the period in which the economy ...
Read Full Story »
Geithner

Why The Public Hates The Fed

Posted: July 28, 2009 at 4:33 am

The idea of Fed chairman Bernanke at a town hall meeting being covered by PBS made some Washington observers shudder. Others just assumed that Bernanke wanted to take a victory ...
Read Full Story »
newspaper

Media Digest 7/28/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NY Times, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 28, 2009 at 3:49 am

Reuters:   The recession has badly hurt investments in green technologies. Reuters:   Obama called for deeper China ties with the US. Reuters:   BP's (BP) profits fell sharply. Reuters:   Bank of America ...
Read Full Story »
china

Asia Markets And Europe Open 7/28/2009

Posted: July 28, 2009 at 3:22 am

Markets in Asia were narrowly mixed. The Nikkei was down a fraction of a percent at 10,087. The Hang Seng was up 1% to 20,444. China Mobile (CHL) and China ...
Read Full Story »
starbucks-logo

Is Starbucks Altering Its Health Insurance Stance? (SBUX)

Posted: July 27, 2009 at 3:11 pm

Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) has announced to its U.S. employees that it will make the company discretionary match to the 401(k) Savings Plan for the 2009 plan year. In December 2008, ...
Read Full Story »
money-stack-image

GAMCO, Gabelli, Files To Raise Cash (GBL)

Posted: July 27, 2009 at 2:06 pm

It was not that long ago that GAMCO INVESTORS INC. saw its credit rating hurt by an S&P downgrade, sort of.  S&P put the parent of Gabelli Funds credit rating ...
Read Full Story »
burning-money-pic

New Measures Against Short Sale Abuse

Posted: July 27, 2009 at 1:40 pm

We are starting to get more information out of the Securities and Exchange Commission on how it plans to go after some of the abuses which have been prevalent in ...
Read Full Story »
Buffett Image

More Stocks For Buffett To Unload (BRK-A, MCO, COP, CEG, GCI, WPO, MTB, WBC)

Posted: July 27, 2009 at 11:48 am

How frequently has Warren Buffett  been bashed by the media over Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s  (NYSE: BRK-A) lackluster performance ?  What was interesting to see is his stake being lowered in ...
Read Full Story »
24/7 WallSt TV

24/7 Wall St. TV: Starbucks (SBUX) Doesn’t Take Food Stamps

Posted: July 27, 2009 at 11:06 am

The earnings of companies including Starbucks (SBUX) and Caterpillar (CAT) have been better than expected. A number of analysts and the press have pointed out that one-time cost cuts, including ...
Read Full Story »
earth

Europe Steps Up Timetable On Swine Flu Vaccines (VICL, NVAX, BCRX)

Posted: July 27, 2009 at 10:53 am

Shares of vaccine makers including Vical Inc. ((Nasdaq: VICL), Novavax Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) and BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Nasdaq: BCRX) all are up strongly Monday after Europe’s version of the FDA ...
Read Full Story »
24/7 WallSt TV

24/7 Wall St. TV: Funding Healthcare, Taxing The Obese

Posted: July 27, 2009 at 10:31 am

The Administration and Congress are looking for ways to close the funding gap for the $1 trillion national health care overhaul. The hospital industry has already agreed to $155 billion ...
Read Full Story »

Lower Housing Prices Generating Much Higher Sales (XHB, ITB)

Posted: July 27, 2009 at 9:14 am

The Commerce Department's data on new home sales did not just rise in June for a third straight month.  The new home sales rose sharply.  The headline number came in ...
Read Full Story »
money-stack-image

Agilent-Varian, Partly Transformational Move (A, VARI)

Posted: July 27, 2009 at 8:32 am

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is making what seem an unusual acquisition.  It is acquiring Varian, Inc. (NASDAQ: VARI) after signing a definitive agreement for the acquisition.  Agilent will pay ...
Read Full Story »

Top Day Trader Alerts (AET, GLW, TMS, YGE, CALM, ANR)

Posted: July 27, 2009 at 8:11 am

The following 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 ...
Read Full Story »