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Monthly Archives: August 2009

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Ever Optimistic And Opportunistic, Wal-Mart (WMT) Chases The Affluent

Posted: August 19, 2009 at 6:00 am

Wal-Mart (WMT) does not care if it has been burned by its past efforts to try to get affluent shoppers. The world's largest retailer has been known for years as ...
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Searching For Reasons For China’s New Bear Market

Posted: August 19, 2009 at 5:47 am

The economy in China is allegedly getting better, but the stock market is getting much worse. It is now down 20% from its 2009 peak which, based on the Wall ...
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Buffett: Economy May Mend, But Inflation Will Wound

Posted: August 19, 2009 at 5:06 am

Warren Buffett wrote an op ed piece for The New York Times. One part of the article was predictable. Buffett feels that rising government borrowing will eventually cause inflation. He ...
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Media Digest 8/19/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 19, 2009 at 4:00 am

Reuters:   HP (HP) issued optimistic guidance. Reuters:   China is investing in the private housing sector. Reuters:   Buffett says the US is on a slow path to recovery. Reuters:   US regulators ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 8/19/2009

Posted: August 19, 2009 at 3:25 am

Markets in Asia fell. The Nikkei was down .8% to 10,204. Sanyo rose on news Toyota (TM) would buy batteries from the company. The Hang Seng fell 1.9% to 19,924. ...
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Video Game Players Are Fat, Depressed, And Old (SNE)(MSFT)

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 6:53 pm

In the not too distant future, video games may have health warning labels like the ones found on Marlboros and Jim Beam. New research performed by the Centers for Disease ...
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Exxon Mobil (XOM) And PetroChina (PTR): The US And China Play Nicely Together

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 6:11 pm

There is a tremendous amount of agita about the Chinese arresting four Rio Tinto (RTP) employees on charges of trade secret infringement and bribery. The action came too soon after ...
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Sony (SNE) PS3 And Microsoft (MSFT) Zune: Does Cutting Price Matter?

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 5:40 pm

Sony's (SNE) PS3 and Microsoft's (MSFT) Zune both have the same problem. They substantially under-sell the market leaders. In the case of the Zune, that is Apple's (AAPL) iPod which ...
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AT&T (T) And Sprint (S) Key To iPhone And Palm Customer Satisfaction

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 5:21 pm

Wall St. analysts and the media have spent the weeks after the release of the Palm (PALM) Pre on the Sprint (S) network wondering how the handset is actually selling ...
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H-P Delivers On Earnings (HPQ)

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 4:16 pm

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) has just released its earnings report for the quarter.  The PC and IT giant posted $0.91 EPS and $27.45 billion in revenues.  Thomson Reuters had estimates ...
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Can NetApp Earnings Continue The Run? (NTAP, DDUP, EMC)

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 3:02 pm

NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) is set to report earnings after the close of trading on Wednesday.  What will be interesting to see is if the company can maintain its old ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Reader’s Digest Goes To Hospice

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 2:39 pm

The US business of Readers Digest is going into Chapter 11. The immediate cause is the company’s need to restructure $1.6 billion in debt and to move ownership of the ...
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Full H-P Earnings Preview (HPQ)

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 12:45 pm

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ) may have just clouded its outlook for today's earnings report.  We have Thomson Reuters estimates at $0.90 EPS on some $27.25 billion in revenues.  But today ...
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Garmin & Raymarine, A Defensive & Strategic Opportunity (GRMN, AAPL, VZ, GOOG, T)

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 11:10 am

Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) may still be the leader in its space in the U.S., but the company has become very 'yesteryear' for investors.  The company recently performed much 'less-worse' ...
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RBC Gets Ultra-Aggressive on R-I-M, Apple, Palm (RIMM, PALM, AAPL)

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 10:01 am

Research-in-Motion Ltd. (NASDAQ: RIMM) was running this morning in our top day trader alerts, but it turns out that there was much more to the call than meets they eye.  ...
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