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Top Day Trader Alerts (HD, LOW, CIT, GERN, TSL, NVAX, HURN, RIMM)

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 9:06 am

These are this Tuesday’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: The ...
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Good News for Consumers: Wholesale Inflation Not Being Seen

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 8:39 am

Inflation is taking a ride in the backseat, again.  The Labor Department said that July's wholesale inflation measured by Producer Price Index came in at -0.9% on the nominal or ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AEZS, AXP, ARTC, BRCD, GLW, CRXL, GS, IGT, MOT, TRA)

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 7:53 am

These are ten of the top analyst research upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen early this Tuesday morning with about two hours until the market opens: Aeterna Zentaris (AEZS) Cut to ...
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Head Of AIG (AIG) To Be Overpaid By $6,999,999

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 6:06 am

AIG has already taken in $180 billion of taxpayer money and there is absolutely no reason to believe that most of it will be returned. The insurance company is still ...
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Another Options Backdating Scandal Brewing

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 5:53 am

The Wall Street Journal has taken an exclusive look at academic reseach documents that show many companies have backdated options. The last scandal about the practice should have taught public company ...
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US Car Quality Getting Better As Sales Disintegrate

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 5:40 am

The New York Times got ahold of an early version of the 2009 new vehicle study done by The University of Michigan Customer Satisfaction Index. The paper reports that "in the ...
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The Fed Has No Leverage: Bank Lending Remains Moribund

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 5:15 am

The Fed made hundreds of billions of dollars in short term loans to banks. It was necessary, in the opinion of the agency, to do that to preserve the financial ...
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Reader’s Digest Goes Into Hospice

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 4:53 am

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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Media Digest 6/18/2009

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 4:00 am

Reuters:   China's expansion is leading to charges is it stripping asset from other under-developed countries. Reuters:   UBS (UBS) will reveal the names of 5,000 clients in a deal with US ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 8/18/2009

Posted: August 18, 2009 at 3:25 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose .2% to 10,385. The Hang Seng rose 1% to 20,333. The Shanghai Composite rose 1.4% to 2,911. At the open in Europe, ...
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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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