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Daily Archives: August 17, 2009

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Fidelity’s Top Portfolio Changes (BAC, WFC, GS, MS, JPM, AAPL, MSFT, CSCO, ORCL, XOM, CVX, PFE, ESRX, WYE, GE, SBUX)

Posted: August 17, 2009 at 4:58 pm

Fidelity Management & Research Company, or FMR, was among the giants which released its quarterly holdings over the most recent days.  While it is always interesting to see which holdings ...
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Home Depot’s Earnings Bar Lowered After Lowe’s (HD, LOW)

Posted: August 17, 2009 at 2:20 pm

The Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) is set to report earnings tomorrow morning and it may have just caught a break now that Lowe's Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) missed its ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: VW’s Huge Mistake

Posted: August 17, 2009 at 1:55 pm

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, the company known to most Americans as VW, wants to become the world’s largest car company within a decade. VW has almost no chance of realizing that aspiration ...
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Can a $4,000 Car Help to Cure GM? (TTM)

Posted: August 17, 2009 at 11:03 am

General Motors may be closer to getting into cars as cheap as some go-carts.   A report over the weekend in the WSJ noted that GM plans to produce one of ...
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Cash for Clunkers: The Seen and Unseen

Posted: August 17, 2009 at 9:56 am

John Tamny of RealClearMarkets When asked who his favorite economist was, Ronald Reagan used to say Fredric Bastiat. Bastiat was a 19th-century economic philosopher from France, and while his numerous ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (BDX, BRK-A, BPAX, FSLR, GFG, IDCC, LOW, HD, RST)

Posted: August 17, 2009 at 9:16 am

These are this Monday's top day trader and active stock alerts.  We have more detailed data on volume and price analysis with links through to VSInvestor.com on each stock: Becton ...
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Top 10 Pre-Market Analyst Calls (ARIA, ADSK, BJ, CX, ENOC, GLNG, IT, N, PSA, WMT)

Posted: August 17, 2009 at 8:00 am

These are the top pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades from Wall Street firms we have seen early this Monday morning: Ariad Pharma (NASDAQ: ARIA) Started as Outperform at Oppenheimer. Autodesk ...
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Almost 90% Of US Paper Money Has Traces Of Cocaine

Posted: August 17, 2009 at 6:12 am

Filed in the folder marked "facts most people would never imagine" is the news that nearly nine out of ten bills in the US are contaminated with cocaine. Data released ...
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Access To GPS In US Gets Cheap As Apple (AAPL) iPhone Apps Grow

Posted: August 17, 2009 at 5:56 am

Two years ago, GPS products cost more than $1,000. Car companies charged as much as $2,500 for the systems. Tom Tom and Garmin (GRMN) stocks hit remarkably high levels on ...
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A Ray Of Hope In Japan

Posted: August 17, 2009 at 5:31 am

Some experts on the Japanese economy, the world's second largest, compared the current recession to the nation's "lost decade" of the 1990s when real estate and stock market prices plunged ...
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Higher Taxes In 2011 Should Drive Stronger Than Expected GDP Growth In 2010

Posted: August 17, 2009 at 5:00 am

More and more economists talk about a “V”-shaped recovery. The recession has been so bad, their theory goes,  that there is now pent-up demand for goods and services. New data ...
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The Largest Business Blunder Of The Year: VW Gave Up The US Market

Posted: August 17, 2009 at 4:50 am

Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, the company known to most Americans as VW, wants to become the world’s largest car company within a decade. VW has almost no chance of realizing that aspiration ...
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Media Digest 8/17/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 17, 2009 at 4:03 am

Reuters:   China Investment Corp will put $2 billion into US mortgages. Reuters:   The US pay czar says be can "claw back" executive compensation. Reuters:   Japan is pulling out of its ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 8/17/2009

Posted: August 17, 2009 at 3:27 am

Markets in Asia were sharply lower. The Nikkei fell 3.1% to 10,289. The Hang Seng was down 3.5% to 20,169.  PetroChina (PTR) was down 4%. The Shanghai Composite was off ...
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