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Monthly Archives: August 2009

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Full Expectations For Cisco Earnings (CSCO, JNPR, BRCD, COMS, ALU)

Posted: August 4, 2009 at 10:47 pm

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is set to report earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday.  Be advised that estimates could change ever so slightly before the formal number if ...
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Sony (SNE), Always Late And Always A Loser, Gets Into E-Reader Market

Posted: August 4, 2009 at 6:13 pm

Sony (SNE) has had one hit product in the thirty years since it launched the Walkman. That product was the PlayStation 2. Microsoft (MSFT) and Nintendo bull-dozed Sony out of ...
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Buffett Loses Top Gun at NetJets (BRK-A)

Posted: August 4, 2009 at 5:16 pm

It is easy to forget about the NetJets Inc. company....  Partly because of the recession, and partly because even fractional ownership of private jets has been vilified by the attack ...
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EA Good Enough, on non-GAAP Basis (ERTS)

Posted: August 4, 2009 at 4:46 pm

Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) announced results for its first quarter of fiscal 2010, and shares are holding their own. Non-GAAP net revenue was $816 million, a gain of 34% ...
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Whole Foods Earnings Better Than Organic (WFMI)

Posted: August 4, 2009 at 4:29 pm

Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI) has reported that sales for the last quarter rose by 2% to $1.878 billion, although comparable store sales decreased 2.5% versus a 2.6% increase ...
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Is There Value Left In Eastman Kodak? (EK)

Posted: August 4, 2009 at 2:52 pm

This morning we started seeing increased trading activity in shares of the long-troubled photo giant Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK).  Then came the option alerts along with the doubling volume ...
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GE Gets SEC Issues Behind It (GE)

Posted: August 4, 2009 at 11:10 am

General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) has reached a settlement with the SEC regarding four accounting matters in 2002 and 2003.  Yep, 2002 and 2003.  This has enough of a look-back ...
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The Recession America Needed

Posted: August 4, 2009 at 10:28 am

"It is probably well that we had the war when we did. We are better off now than we would have been without it, and have made more rapid progress ...
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Housing Take: Rising Prices in Pending Home Sales

Posted: August 4, 2009 at 10:20 am

The reading for pending home sales in June is showing a continued return to of housing, or at least that the worst is over.  The June figures came to +3.6%, ...
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At Goldman, Matt Taibbi Fires and Misses

Posted: August 4, 2009 at 10:01 am

By John Tamny of RealClearMarkets In a piece written to shed light on the allegedly evil doings of Goldman Sachs, Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi unwittingly let readers in ...
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Suddenly All Is Well In Bottling Mergers (PEP, PBG, PAS, COKE, CCE, KOF, CCH, KO)

Posted: August 4, 2009 at 9:28 am

This morning we caught the news on a volume alert, but there was no confirmation of the news.  Now, we have the formal release from PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP).  Pepsi has ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Google CEO Leaves Apple Board As Tech Wars Rage

Posted: August 4, 2009 at 8:59 am

Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google (GOOG), resigned from the Apple (AAPL) board of directors. Apple says it was because of increasing conflicts between the two company's products. There has ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (HGSI, CTSH, STEC, PBG, PEP)

Posted: August 4, 2009 at 8:53 am

It is actually slow in pre-market trading today.  These are today's top volume alert stocks for day traders and active traders.  More detailed volume and price analysis and data is ...
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Personal Income & Spending Heading the Wrong Way

Posted: August 4, 2009 at 8:42 am

The Commerce Department has just released its data on Personal Income and Spending for the month of June.  Income came in at -1.3%, and Dow Jones had estimates at -1.2% ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ABX, BGFV, DLR, DISH, HOLX, HGSI, MYGN, PMC, SVNT, TLB)

Posted: August 4, 2009 at 7:33 am

These are ten of the top pre-market early analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street early this Tuesday morning: Barrick Gold (ABX) Cut to Sector Perform ...
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