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Monthly Archives: August 2009

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Microsoft (MSFT) Readies “Office” Launch With Nokia (NOK)

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 8:40 pm

Microsoft (MSFT) believes, almost certainly, that the future of its operating software and search business is as much if not more on wireless portable devices as it is on the ...
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Applied Materials Skates Past Estimates (AMAT)

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 4:16 pm

Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) has reported results for its fiscal third quarter and its net sales were $1.13 billion.  The non-GAAP net loss was $2 million, or break-even per ...
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Chart Events Forming in Key Tech Stocks (MSFT, AMZN, RIMM, ORCL, QCOM)

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 2:41 pm

It is normal to see pullbacks.  The problem is that most market pullbacks in the last five months have been rare or short-lived since the near-depression levels of early March.  ...
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Bove’s Sour Bank Call Cautions Recent Gains (BAC, C, FAS)

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 1:34 pm

What happens when a sector loses a key bull, even if it is temporary?  Often nothing, but if it is a big enough market pundit then it can have an ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: A Miserable Period For E-Commerce

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 12:02 pm

Costco’s (COST) same-store sales fell 7% last month. The firm was lucky. Abercrombie & Fitch’s (ANF) numbers were down 38%. Saks (SKS) plunged by 16.3% and Neiman Marcus fell 27.3%. ...
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Pickens Long Oil, Still Expects Higher Prices

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 11:01 am

T. Boone Pickens has stayed long oil.  There are some comments out of a brief sideline interview at the U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's National Clean Energy Summit this ...
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Zoltek Left In The Wind (ZOLT)

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 10:06 am

Zoltek Companies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ZOLT) was a great success story during the boom of energy and alternative energy.  But since that bubble popped, its bubble has burst as well.  Its shares ...
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Suffocating Under the Heavy Hand of Government

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 9:54 am

By John Tamny of RealClearMarkets "Chinese industry will continue to grow, it can't help but expand with all the reinvestment they pour into it," remarked an American engineer who has ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (CIT, ANDS, AVNR, BG, ANPI, RINO)

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 8:57 am

These are this morning's top day trader alert and actively traded stocks.  We have links through to each with more detailed price and volume data and analysis over at VSInvestor.com: ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades/Downgrades (AMGN, CELL, ELON, SATS, KR, QLGC, MBI, PETM, S, YUM)

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 7:58 am

These are the top  10 pre-market analyst upgrades and downgrades in Wall Street research calls this Tuesday morning: Amgen (AMGN) Started as Buy at RBC. Brightpoint (CELL) Raised to Buy ...
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Oil Prices May Steady, If OPEC Is Right

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 7:33 am

The crude market has been through enough wild swings in the last two years to last a lifetime. The market is now embroiled in a debate about whether most of the ...
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Imus: Fox Business Debases Itself Further

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 6:34 am

Every time the media says that Fox Business Network is doing poorly or its rating are low, it defends itself with an astonishing rabidness. Fox will beat CNBC at its ...
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While US Stimulus Struggles, China’s Shines

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 6:15 am

There are very few signs that the US stimulus package, which totals $787 billion, is working. Unemployment rates are showing some sign of improving, but not to the extent that ...
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Underwater Mortgages Reach Epidemic Levels

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 6:00 am

Posit: Underwater mortgages hurt home sales and increase delinquencies and foreclosures. People who have to pay their mortgage holder to sell their homes are less likely to be sellers. A ...
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Strike A Blow For Transparency: No Deal For B of A and SEC

Posted: August 11, 2009 at 5:36 am

The federal district judge handling the Bank of America (BAC) deal with the SEC to settle charges that the financial firm improperly disclosed the timing of bonuses paid to Merrill ...
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