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Daily Archives: September 2, 2009

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M&A: America’s Top Companies Hold $335 Billion Cash (XOM, MSFT, JNJ, PG, BRK-A, IBM, T, AAPL, GOOG, CVX, CSCO, KO, INTC, ORCL, BAC, WFC, JPM, GE, PFE)

Posted: September 2, 2009 at 5:05 pm

Now that we are out of the woods in the crash scenario, assuming this week is no ill omen, investors may want to know which of the big companies would ...
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FOMC Minutes Show a Punt

Posted: September 2, 2009 at 2:09 pm

The minutes of the August 11 and 12 FOMC meeting shows a Fed that is slowly growing more confident in things, yet the conviction is low.  The FOMC was more ...
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NASDAQ Toppy? Chartist/Technician Notes Secular Bear (QQQQ, SMH, XLK)

Posted: September 2, 2009 at 11:47 am

What happens when you get a pullback after the markets have rallied some 50% from the lows of the year?  Technicians key in with the charts, and much of the ...
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Oil Inventory Surprise (OIH, USO, OIL)

Posted: September 2, 2009 at 10:45 am

The Department of Energy has just released its weekly inventory data for crude oil, gasoline, distillates, and refining levels.  This week was marked by draw-downs but because of the weakness ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Is The Internet Broken?

Posted: September 2, 2009 at 10:29 am

Google’s (GOOG) Gmail system, which serves millions of customers around the world, shut down yesterday. The problem may hurt its efforts to market applications which include e-mail to businesses. Google ...
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BP’s (BP) Giant Oil Discovery And Future Of Supply

Posted: September 2, 2009 at 10:21 am

BP (BP) said it has made a "giant" discovery of crude oil in its Tiber Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico. The well was drilled to a depth of over ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (BP, FNM, FRE, JOYG, DXO, TSEM, PAY, VG)

Posted: September 2, 2009 at 8:58 am

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: BP PLC (NYSE: BP) ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (BIIB, FRX, GENZ, GILD, HOLX, LVS, MOS, NVAX, RIG, TXT)

Posted: September 2, 2009 at 8:21 am

These are the top ten analyst research initiations, upgrades, and downgrades we have seen from top Wall Street firms early this Wednesday morning: Biogen-Idec (BIIB) Started as Underperform at BofA/Merrill ...
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Sony (SNE): Will 3D TV Sell?

Posted: September 2, 2009 at 6:09 am

Sony (SNE), which has failed at most of its new initiatives over the last two years, needs something to work. It PS3 has sold poorly. Prices for it digital cameras and ...
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Nokia (NOK) Marries Facebook

Posted: September 2, 2009 at 5:49 am

Facebook, which has over 200 million users, is becoming nearly as widely available on handsets as it is on PCs. Its members cannot get enough of sharing their experiences and ...
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The Swine Flu Ferret Defense

Posted: September 2, 2009 at 5:33 am

There are dozens of biotech companies and several Big Pharma firms that hope to make money on swine flu treatments, mostly vaccines. They are driven by the WHO's estimate that ...
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Is The Internet Broken?

Posted: September 2, 2009 at 5:02 am

Google's (GOOG) Gmail system, which serves millions of customers around the world, shut down yesterday. The problem may hurt its efforts to market applications which include e-mail to businesses. Google prides ...
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Media Digest 9/2/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 2, 2009 at 3:54 am

Reuters:   Sales  growth of Ford (F) and Hyundai topped other car companies. Reuters:   The EU could slow a takeover of Sun (JAVA) by Oracle (ORCL). Reuters:   Home sales and factory ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 9/2/2009

Posted: September 2, 2009 at 3:19 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell 2.4% to 10,281. The Hang Seng was down 1.4% to 19,586. The Shanghai Composite was up 1.2% to 2,715. At the open ...
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