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Daily Archives: August 12, 2009

Paulson, Esteemed Bank Short Seller, Now Long Financials (BAC, COF, GS, JPM, FITB, FHN, MI, PBCT, SKF, RF, STT, STI)

Posted: August 12, 2009 at 5:11 pm

John Paulson has been well known as a hedge fund manager because of the profits he made from short selling many of the key financial stocks.  Yet his new filing ...
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Blackstone Brings in Byron Wien, Wants To Sell Debt (BX)

Posted: August 12, 2009 at 4:25 pm

The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) had a fairly busy day.  It seems that reports of the death of private equity may have been exaggerated.  The company had two key ...
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Tracking The Value Of The World’s Major Brands

Posted: August 12, 2009 at 3:21 pm

Several companies run annual brand valuations. It is a good business for advertising and marketing firms to be viewed as experts on brands. Brand values are based on the ...
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Bernanke & FOMC Redux

Posted: August 12, 2009 at 2:22 pm

The announcement from the FOMC on the decision on interest rates is out.  As most suspected, it was not the rate decision that mattered as much.  It was the language ...
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Wal-Mart At Critical Chart Levels Into Earnings (WMT, RTH)

Posted: August 12, 2009 at 12:56 pm

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) was supposed to be the big winner of the Great Recession as the giant trade-down retail play for America.  Interestingly enough, the peak of the ...
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Solar Stock Earnings Still Rough (JASO, SOL, FSLR, LDK)

Posted: August 12, 2009 at 11:56 am

With all the stimulus money in the U.S. supposedly heading toward alternative energy.... with all the boost from Chinese credits for solar.... with all the greenhouse gases and carbon emission ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: What If Twitter Disappears?

Posted: August 12, 2009 at 10:10 am

The Twitter outage introduces the concept of whether anyone would really miss the service if it went away. Financial experts have argued that Twitter is not worth much even with ...
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Emdeon IPO: Healthcare Reform Beneficiary (EM)

Posted: August 12, 2009 at 9:56 am

Emdeon Inc. (NYSE: EM) is today's 'other' initial public offering.  The company priced 23,700,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $15.50 per share. Not all proceeds are ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (JASO, GRMN, YRCW, JAZZ, MEDX, BMY, PETD, TOL, XHB, BRCM)

Posted: August 12, 2009 at 9:26 am

These are this morning's top day trader alerts and most active in price and volume.  We have more detailed analysis and data on price and volume with links through to ...
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Trade Deficit Shows Energy Still Top Problem

Posted: August 12, 2009 at 8:43 am

The Trade Balance, a.k.a. the trade deficit, for June has just come out at $27.01 billion, from a revised $25.97 billion.  This comes in versus consensus estimates from economists at ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (CTXS, CRK, CVGI, HR, ITMN, RDS-B, SLXP, VRSN, YRCW)

Posted: August 12, 2009 at 8:18 am

It is somewhat light in analyst coverage this morning as reports are dribbling in.  These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street early ...
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IPO PRICING: Starwood Property Trust, Inc. (STWD)

Posted: August 12, 2009 at 8:12 am

Starwood Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: STWD) has priced its initial public offering of 40,500,000 shares of common stock at a price of $20.00 per share.  This is an externally managed ...
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Apple’s (AAPL) Market Cap Passes Google’s (GOOG)

Posted: August 12, 2009 at 6:04 am

Apple's (AAPL) market cap is now$148 billion. Google's (GOOG) is only $143 billion. The disparity between the two numbers does not make sense. Google has been the faster-growing company, at ...
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The Death Of Oil Demand

Posted: August 12, 2009 at 5:50 am

Economic growth in China and a very modest recovery in the West will not be enough to drive up oil demand next year, according to the International Energy Agency. The ...
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What If Twitter Folds?

Posted: August 12, 2009 at 5:16 am

Twitter had another hacker attack yesterday. Several media outlets reported that the micro-blogging system was down periodically though the early morning and afternoon. The service had more severe problems last ...
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