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Daily Archives: September 3, 2009

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Refunding The SEC

Posted: September 3, 2009 at 7:46 pm

Senator Charles Schumer believes that the SEC is underfunded. Statistics tend to support his case. The SEC’s staff of approximately 3,650 oversees 35,000 entities.  Securities trading volume has increased 261% ...
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Can Verizon Raise Dividend Indefinitely? (VZ, T)

Posted: September 3, 2009 at 2:30 pm

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) did not immediately rise despite the announcement from the company that it was raising its quarterly dividend.  Most dividend hikes do not raise the price ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Madoff As SEC Chief

Posted: September 3, 2009 at 1:52 pm

Case No. OIG-509 from the SEC Office of the Inspector General, also known as “Investigation of Failure of the SEC To Uncover Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi Scheme”, is good reading. The ...
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Fox Business Lasts Less Than Two Years

Posted: September 3, 2009 at 1:23 pm

MSBNC, operated by the NBCU division of GE (GE) and CBS (CBS) made the mistake of throwing Don Imus off the air in April 2007. He made intemperate and distasteful ...
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Amazon (AMZN) Kindle And Sony (SNE) E-Readers Wildly Overpriced

Posted: September 3, 2009 at 1:03 pm

The e-reader market which has been the subject of so much media attention may be going through a growth spurt now, but that is not likely to last. Sony (SNE) ...
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First Solar Scores With New CEO (FSLR, HON, GE)

Posted: September 3, 2009 at 11:43 am

First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is making a significant management change, right at the top of the company. Mike Ahearn is stepping down as CEO and will be replaced by ...
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Buffett Gets Deeper Into Housing and Real Estate (BRK-A, LUK, GS, CIT, HD, LOW, USG)

Posted: September 3, 2009 at 11:19 am

Warren Buffett is positioning Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) to profit when the housing and property market returns to more normal levels.  Now, he is teaming up with what many ...
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The $1,000 Gold Call Returns (GLD, GDX, UGL, ABX, HMY)

Posted: September 3, 2009 at 10:31 am

The commodities call is back on.  It isn't $100 oil, but it is for $1,000.00 gold.  We have two well respected market technicians calling for higher gold prices.  At 10:12 ...
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Citi Now 33.6% Gov’t Owned… Reverse Split Seems Imminent (C)

Posted: September 3, 2009 at 9:46 am

Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) is going to have a very active day ahead of it.  The troubled banking giant has just announced that its common stockholders approved the three resolutions ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (FNM, FRE, HOV, INWK, JAVA, ORCL, SEPR, SVA, ZUMZ)

Posted: September 3, 2009 at 9:04 am

These are this Thursday’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: Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) ...
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Jobless Claims Offer Little Hope For Friday’s Payrolls Data

Posted: September 3, 2009 at 8:36 am

Weekly Jobless Claims were just released by the US Labor Department and the numbers came in at 570,000 again on the preliminary claims figure.  Last week was originally reported as ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (ACN, APC, AAPL, CUB, IRF, NANO, PER, RAX, ZUMZ)

Posted: September 3, 2009 at 8:04 am

These are this morning's top analyst upgrades and positive research calls seen from Wall Street analysts early this Thursday morning: Accenture (ACN) Started as Outperform at Baird. Anadarko Petroleum (APC) ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (DE, EHTH, HMY, HOV, REP)

Posted: September 3, 2009 at 7:59 am

These are this Thursday's top analyst downgrades seen from Wall Street research calls early this morning: Deere & Co. (DE) Cut to Underweight at JPMorgan. eHealth (EHTH) Cut to Hold ...
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European Commision May Kill Sun (JAVA) Deal With Oracle (ORCL)

Posted: September 3, 2009 at 6:13 am

Oracle (ORCL) probably thought its deal to buy Sun Microsystems (JAVA) was a sure thing once US regulators had approved the deal. Now, the transaction is in real trouble and ...
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Wasting News On The Evening News

Posted: September 3, 2009 at 5:42 am

Most of the news yesterday was dominated by the news that Charles Gibson would leave as anchor of the ABC Evening News and be replaced by Diane Sawyer. Since almost ...
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