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Media Digest 8/21/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 21, 2009 at 4:03 am

Reuters:   Sony (SNE) and Microsoft (MSFT) are battling to control home entertainment but consumers are slow to adopt their technologies. Reuters:   The "clunkers" program will end on August 24. Reuters:   ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 8/21/2009

Posted: August 21, 2009 at 3:28 am

Markets in Asia were mixed The Nikkei fell 1.5% to 10,238. Shares in Toyota (TM) and Honda (HMC) fell. The Hang Seng was down .9% to 20,253. The Shanghai Composite ...
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The Cell Carriers’ Worst Nightmare: FCC Investigation Of Handset Deals

Posted: August 20, 2009 at 7:09 pm

The partnerships between handset companies and cellular carriers in the US are too good to be true. The FCC has discovered that and the wireless industry may never be the ...
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Private Equity IPO: KKR’s Dollar General Files For IPO (DG, FDO, DLTR, NDN)

Posted: August 20, 2009 at 5:47 pm

We have already noted on numerous occasions how the floodgates for re-sales or re-IPO's of old private equity acquisitions have to come back on the market.  And now we have ...
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Gap Holds Its Own (GPS)

Posted: August 20, 2009 at 4:26 pm

Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) is holding its own considering the past few years.  The apparel retail giant reported a slight gain in quarterly earnings, although this is on the heels ...
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Is The New Nordic ETF For You? (GXF, ERIC, NOK, NHY, NVO, STO)

Posted: August 20, 2009 at 3:58 pm

NYSE Euronext has begun trading a new ETF this week that is meant to track the large companies throughout the Nordic region.  This seeks to track the FTSE Nordic 30 ...
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Starbucks & Higher Prices, Sort Of (SBUX)

Posted: August 20, 2009 at 2:32 pm

Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) has come back from the sub-$10.00 category with a vengeance.  In fact, if it rallies another $2.00 then it will have recovered a sharp 200% from ...
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Video Game Sector Preps For Tough Year-End (GME, SNE, MSFT, ERTS, AMZN, NTDOY, TTWO, ATVI)

Posted: August 20, 2009 at 10:52 am

The video game sector was supposed to be one of the relative beneficiaries of the recession even if it was not to be entirely immune.  The sector was part of ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (PETM, GOOG, STP, NTAP, SHLD, EDAP)

Posted: August 20, 2009 at 9:06 am

These are this Tuesday’s top day trader and active stock alerts.  We have more detailed data on volume and price analysis with links through to VSInvestor.com on each stock: PetSmart ...
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Jobless Claims Ticking Back Up

Posted: August 20, 2009 at 8:36 am

Weekly jobless claims are heading the wrong direction again this morning, although some of this may still have some seasonality to it.  The Labor Department showed a gain of 15,000 ...
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Imagining a World Without Tax-Free Bonds

Posted: August 20, 2009 at 8:07 am

By John Tamny of RealClearMarkets Last month federal agents arrested a large number of New Jersey politicians on bribery and money laundering charges. As described in the Wall Street Journal, ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AZN, BDN, CHA, HURN, PRU, PETM, RF, SOL, RDS-B, TWB, UA)

Posted: August 20, 2009 at 7:48 am

These are Thursday's top ten analyst research summary upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street brokerage firms: AstraZeneca (AZN) Cut to Hold at Citigroup. Brandywine Realty (BDN) Cut to Neutral ...
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Google Scores Significant Upgrade (GOOG)

Posted: August 20, 2009 at 7:31 am

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has scored a significant upgrade in both name and in quality.  The king of search has been raised to Goldman Sachs' Conviction Buy List.  The target ...
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Wells Fargo (WFC) Gets Sued For Not Lending

Posted: August 20, 2009 at 6:13 am

Wells Fargo (WFC) and a lot of other American banks got in trouble by being more liberal than they should have been in their loan practices. Financial firms made to ...
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The Government Will Check The Government’s Decisions On Citigroup (C)

Posted: August 20, 2009 at 6:03 am

The precious time of senior government officials must not be so precious. Federal agencies seem to be spending more and more time looking back on the financial crisis to see ...
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