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Monthly Archives: August 2009

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Huron… When The Consultants Need Consultants (HURN)

Posted: August 3, 2009 at 11:04 am

Huron Consulting Group Inc. (NASDAQ: HURN) was a stock we screened early this morning in pre-market hours for its active trading at VSInvestor.com.  We noted that this one was getting ...
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ISM.. 1,000 S&P… 2,000 NASDAQ

Posted: August 3, 2009 at 10:34 am

The Institute for Supply Management has shown that the manufacturing activity came in with a reduced rate of contraction for July.  The manufacturing index came in at 48.9.  This is ...
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Google CEO Walks Out On Apple (AAPL), Or Is Pushed

Posted: August 3, 2009 at 9:10 am

Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt has left the Apple (AAPL) board. Apple says it was because of increasing conflicts between the two companies, a sign that the war among large ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (SVNT, HURN, RPRX, EBAY, HUM, ONTY)

Posted: August 3, 2009 at 8:38 am

The following are among the top day trader and active trader alert stocks with major price and volume action.  We have links to more detailed analysis and price action at ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AGN, BKC, BEN, GPS, GENZ, HURN, MMM, SSS, WEN, UTHR)

Posted: August 3, 2009 at 7:43 am

These are the top ten analyst upgrades and downgrades we have seen from Wall Street firms early this Monday morning: Allergan (AGN) Raised to Outperform at Baird. Burger King (BKC) ...
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High Oil Prices, Nearly Forgotten, Return

Posted: August 3, 2009 at 6:21 am

High oil prices were supposed to be a thing of the past, driven lower by over-supply in the US and a continuing recession is almost every large economy other than ...
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HSBC (HBC) And Barclays (BCS): The Bank Recovery Continues, For Now

Posted: August 3, 2009 at 6:08 am

HSBC (HBC) announced that its earnings fell 57% to $3.35 billion during the first half of the year. The largest bank in Europe was able to temper some of its ...
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Awash In Debt, Private Equity Face $400 Billion In Payouts

Posted: August 3, 2009 at 5:51 am

New date from S&P LCD presented by the FT, shows that large private equity firms have $400 billion in debt that needs to be paid in the next five years. ...
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Nissan Pulls Ahead Of Detroit In The Electric Car Race

Posted: August 3, 2009 at 5:21 am

Nissan's new Leaf car doesn't use any gas and it does not produce any emissions. It is electric and it will be available in the US, Japan, and Europe next ...
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Citigroup (C) Needs To Pay Phibro Head His $100 Million

Posted: August 3, 2009 at 4:53 am

The inclination of the Administration's "pay czar" will be to pressure Citigroup (C) not to pay $100 million due to the head of its Phibro energy trading unit. The amount is ...
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China: Still A Phantom Expansion?

Posted: August 3, 2009 at 4:02 am

China’s manufacturing sector expanded again in July, according to the central government. The official Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to a seasonally adjusted 53.3 in July from 53.2 in June, the ...
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Media Digest 8/3/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 3, 2009 at 4:00 am

Reuters:   Video games hope to make a comeback with new titles and price cuts. Reuters:   "Cash for clunkers" should help July car figures. Reuters:   USB (UBS) shares should do well ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 8/3/2009

Posted: August 3, 2009 at 3:24 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell a fraction of a percent to 10,352. Toyota (TM) rose on Ford's (F) strong July numbers. The Hang Seng rose .2% to ...
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The Miracle At Ford (F) Continues

Posted: August 2, 2009 at 6:00 pm

Ford (F) made two audacious decisions recently, decisions made in an industry where audacity is a distant memory that died when Lee Iaccoca left the business. William Clay Ford, Jr., ...
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Guardian Media Group Looks At Cuts

Posted: August 2, 2009 at 7:59 am

The Times of London reports that the Guardian Media Group may close its venerable Observer newspaper. The cuts by the firm may have to go deeper than that based on ...
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