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Monthly Archives: August 2009

Top Day Trader Alerts (GSIC, BPAX, PALM, MPEL, C, RF)

Posted: August 13, 2009 at 9:06 am

These are this morning's top day trader alert stocks and actively traded stock movers.  We have more detailed price and volume analysis with links to each over at VSInvestor.com: GSI ...
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Less-Bad Still Looks OK in Jobs

Posted: August 13, 2009 at 8:35 am

The data from the Labor Department on weekly jobless claims has been released.  We are seeing a slight rise by 4,000 to 558,000 for week.  The four-week average rose by ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (CCE, DRI, JASO, MOS, NOK, PALM, PAAS, POT, SOL, TLAB)

Posted: August 13, 2009 at 7:46 am

These are the top 10 pre-market analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this Thursday morning from Wall Street: Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) Raised to Buy at UBS. DR ...
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Wal-Mart (WMT) Meets Expectations, But Future Modest

Posted: August 13, 2009 at 7:22 am

Despite improvement in the economy which is now seen at almost every turn, Wal-Mart (WMT) does not fell confident about the retail sector. It expects its same-store sales to rise only ...
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Foreclosures Make Huge Move Up In July

Posted: August 13, 2009 at 5:59 am

The plague of foreclosures is still overrunning the US real estate market, and the situation may actually be getting worse. RealtyTrac reports that July numbers rose 7% month-over-month and 32% ...
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The Recovery Rolls On As Germany And France Post Postive GDP

Posted: August 13, 2009 at 5:44 am

The recession in Europe was supposed to last until next year, but it has not turned out that way. The GDPs of Germany and France each grew by .3% in ...
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Citigroup (C) Humiliated By New Management Review

Posted: August 13, 2009 at 5:29 am

Citigroup's (C) board does not even get to decide who should run the bank. This is the same board of "blue chip bankers" recruited by Chairman Richard Parsons. Regulators have ...
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Small Business Aid: Why The Stimulus Package Doesn’t Work

Posted: August 13, 2009 at 4:59 am

The Small Business Administration runs a stimulus program for the government that provides up to $225 million for modest American enterprises. According to The New York Times, this pool is ...
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China Piracy: Rules Are Meant To Be Broken

Posted: August 13, 2009 at 4:51 am

The US got what it described as a victory in a WTO case against China. The system set up in the world’s most populous nation forced US companies to sell ...
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Media Digest 8/13/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 13, 2009 at 4:07 am

Reuters:   Wal-Mart (WMT) will report results with Wall St. looking for sales growth. Reuters:   US home foreclosures set a record in July. Reuters:   Citigroup (C) hired outsiders to help with ...
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Asia Market And Europe Open 8/13/2009

Posted: August 13, 2009 at 3:33 am

Markets in Asia were mostly higher. The Nikkei rose .8% to 10.517. Honda (HMC) and Toyota (TM) both rose over 1%. The Hang Seng was up 2.1% to 20,864. The ...
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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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