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Monthly Archives: August 2009

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New Stock Offerings Could Help Cause 30% Market Correction

Posted: August 10, 2009 at 6:12 am

Mark Mobius, a senior portfolio manager at Templeton, has been making market predictions for decades and is widely regarded as being good at it. He told Bloomberg that global markets ...
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Negotiating Car Prices On eBay (EBAY)

Posted: August 10, 2009 at 5:52 am

eBay (EBAY) and GM are setting up a program in California that will allow consumers to negotiate prices for new cars online. Potential customers can also set up financial packages ...
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Overdraft Fees: The Endless Profit Center For Banks

Posted: August 10, 2009 at 5:37 am

There are so few profit centers that banks can count on anymore. Many of the largest financial firms are still losing money on derivatives. Consumer credit default rates are rising. ...
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Cut The Stimulus Package To Decrease The Deficit

Posted: August 10, 2009 at 5:10 am

American GDP growth was much better than expected in the second quarter of the year, falling only 1%. Unemployment statistics were surprisingly good as the jobless rate actually improved from ...
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China Misplaces $100 Billion And Puts On Brass Knuckles

Posted: August 10, 2009 at 4:56 am

China lost a great deal of its credibility in the world business markets when it accused several Rio Tinto (RTP) employees of industrial espionage. The accusations were vague.  Australia, Rio ...
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Media Digest 8/10/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 10, 2009 at 4:00 am

Reuters:   China is now Africa's largest trading partner. Reuters:   Australia says China's latest Rio Tinto (RTP) charges are not new. Reuters:   Publicis will buy Razorfish from Microsoft (MSFT). Reuters:   UBS ...
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Asia Markets 8/10/2009

Posted: August 10, 2009 at 3:28 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose 1.1% to 10,524. Sony (SNE) was up over 3%. The Hang Seng advanced. 2.2% to 20,829. The Shanghai Composite fell .3% to ...
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The Unusual Suspects (MS, GENZ, SPPI, CBST, DNDN, OPXA, BRK-A, FRED, GSIC, AMAT, WMT, LEAP, PCS)

Posted: August 8, 2009 at 11:47 am

We have some very unusual developments that came late in the week that we want you to keep on your watch lists for the coming week.  We also included the ...
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Administration Wants To Raise $12.1 Trillion National Debt Ceiling

Posted: August 8, 2009 at 7:21 am

The Administration has a bit of a problem. The cap on the national debt, which must be approved by  Congress, is $12.1 trillion. The Treasury is borrowing money so fast ...
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Berkshire Hathaway Helped By Derivatives Gains Of $1.53 Billion

Posted: August 7, 2009 at 5:43 pm

Buffett Spit-Shines Berkshire Earnings (BRK-A, BRK-B, COP, GS) Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK-A, BRK-B) has just released earnings for its second quarter.  Warren Buffett and friends reported earnings of some $3.3 ...
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Credit to Americans Still Declining (V, MA)

Posted: August 7, 2009 at 3:17 pm

Unemployment may be improving or getting less bad, but the same is not true for credit and borrowing by consumers if the June trends continue.   The consumer credit report for ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Fannie Mae Begs For $10.7 Billion More

Posted: August 7, 2009 at 1:59 pm

For those who want to know how much worse that housing market is getting they need look no further that the quarterly results of Fannie Mae (FNM). The mortgage operation ...
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Brokerage Giant Restricts Leveraged and Inverse ETF Products (FAS, FAZ, UYG, SKF, SDS, SSO)

Posted: August 7, 2009 at 1:32 pm

The movement against, or at least a move to better quantify, leveraged ETFs is still going.  In fact, it is becoming more clear.  While this is not against any single ...
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Time To Revisit Cellular Merger in Pre-Paid & No-Contract (LEAP, PCS, VM, S, T, AMX, DT)

Posted: August 7, 2009 at 11:44 am

Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) made our volume spike alert this morning based on last night's dismal earnings results.  But after a deeper look, there is an old reminder ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (AIG, CROX, SQNM, LEAP, PMI, NVDA)

Posted: August 7, 2009 at 9:16 am

These are this morning's top day trader and active stock alerts.  We have more detailed price and volume analysis links on each stock from VSInvestor.com: American International Group (NYSE: AIG) ...
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