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Daily Archives: September 1, 2009

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The Death of an Energy ETF (DXO)

It has been no secret that the CFTC is looking into many exchange traded notes and exchange traded funds that deal in the energy markets, along with other futures and ...
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The Great Gmail Outage (GOOG, YHOO, MSFT)

If you have ever relied on any outside service to host your email or if you have ever had your email even routed from an outside service, there is the ...
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Defensive Stocks Offering No Haven (WMT, PEP, KO, TAP, KFT, CAG, CPB, HRL, MCD, MO, VGR, RAI, PG, CL, MRK, JNJ, NVO)

Wasn't it just last week that we were up eight days in a row on the DJIA?  And now we have a sell-the-news reaction to the recent growth numbers.  Maybe ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Boeing CEO Finds A Scapegoat

The launch of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner has been delayed so often that it would be comical except that the aerospace firm’s shareholders and customers are not laughing. Boeing trades at ...
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Inverse-Leverage ETFs Regain Favor As S&P Breaks 1,000 (FAZ, SKF, SDS, DUG, SRS)

It was just last week that the DJIA was on its eighth consecutive day of a rally and the junkiest of companies were running rampant.  But as the economic numbers ...
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Bill Gross Sees Tough Times For America

Bill Gross is co-CIO for arguably the most influential bond management firm in the U.S.  PIMCO is the biggest ax in the bond market of the bond management firms, and ...
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“Cash For Clunkers” Data Extremely Inaccurate, Favors Japanese

The "cash for clunkers" data by car manufacturer and model type is incorrect. The Department of Transportation numbers reports cars by drive train and not by brand. Edmunds was able ...
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Beacon Power Files To Raise Cash (BCON)

Beacon Power Corporation (NASDAQ: BCON) has just filed to raise up to $60 million in cash in a mixed securities shelf registration.  The company's shelf filing will allow it to ...
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Walmart.com Can’t Dupe Amazon or eBay (WMT, AMZN, EBAY)

The recent news about Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE: WMT) increasing third party item selling via the Walmart.com shopping portal is getting some increased traction.... But the question is really, "Should ...
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ISM Showing Some National Growth

The August manufacturing data from the Institute for Supply Management is actually positive and above that 50.0 threshold for growth versus contraction.  It is easy to point to some exceptions ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (AIG, CMED, FNM, FRE, NVAX, RMBS, SQNM)

These are this Tuesday’s top day trader and active trader alert stocks.  We have links through to each with more detailed price/volume analysis over at VSinvestor.com: American International Group, Inc. ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (BHP, COH, HOG, MOT, RIMM, VALE, LMT)

These are the top analyst upgrades and positive research calls we have seen from Wall Street brokerage firms early this Tuesday morning: BHP Billiton (BHP) Raised to Buy at UBS. ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (ALU, AXL, DIS, NOK, QCOM, VZ)

These are this Tuesday's early analyst downgrades and cautious research calls which we have seen from Wall Street research firms: Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) Cut to Neutral at Credit Suisse. American Axle ...
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Goldman Sachs CEO Blankfein Tops Vanity Fair Power List

Vanity Fair has announced its "The New Establishment 100" list for 2009. The selections are based on wealth, influence, and philanthropy, as well as such intangibles as vision and the ...
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Sony (SNE) Browser Deal With Google (GOOG) Too Small To Matter

Google (GOOG) has set a deal to distribute its Chrome browser on Sony (SNE) PCs. Google has not had much success in getting computer users to switch from the two ...
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