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Monthly Archives: September 2009

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Moody’s: Some Home Price Won’t Rebound Until 2030

Posted: September 19, 2009 at 8:07 am

Moody's (MCO) forecasts that some home prices may not return to their pre-recession levels until 2030. This means that hundreds of thousands of Americans may find it impossible to sell their ...
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Two More Banks Close, Pace Slow

Posted: September 18, 2009 at 6:35 pm

The FDIC is down another $850 million. Two more banks were closed today. Federal and state regulators today closed Irwin Union Bank, F.S.B., Louisville, Kentucky, and Irwin Union Bank and ...
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Are CBS (CBS) And Sprint (S) At Risk For Bankruptcy?

Posted: September 18, 2009 at 2:34 pm

Audit Integrity, a research firm, has come out with a list of the large American companies which are most likely to go bankrupt in the next year. The data behind the figures ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Double Digit Unemployment

Posted: September 18, 2009 at 1:37 pm

The recent report on global unemployment from the OECD predicted that developed country joblessness will reach post WW-II highs soon and will not improve much  over the next two years. ...
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Options Trading & Expiration Stack Up On Citigroup (C)

Posted: September 18, 2009 at 1:10 pm

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) has been one of the most active stocks on the NYSE for weeks and weeks now.  Despite low price stocks usually not being strong in options ...
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Merger Stocks With Significant Arbitrage (CYCL, T, HNBC, FNFG, PCAP, PSEC, JAVA, ORCL, VM, S, DT, IPCS)

Posted: September 18, 2009 at 11:38 am

Despite the notion that times are tough, mergers are still happening.  If you look back at what we noted, the top 20 companies by market cap had over $335 billion ...
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Secondaries Keep Flooding In (DVR, FSP, HBAN, MWA, NMM, HEAT, SAH, SXCI, VVUS, BRKR)

Posted: September 18, 2009 at 9:58 am

You know the market is still strong when secondary floodgates open up and are so well received that so many deals are seeing increased offerings.  Some of the deals we ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (ARNA, VVUS, DVR, HLX, ETFC, SCHW, PALM)

Posted: September 18, 2009 at 8:55 am

These are this Friday morning's top day trader and active trader alert stocks with moves on unusual volume.  We have also provided more details on price and volume analysis with ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (ALL, AMT, AAPL, CCI, ETFC, HGG, KBH, MFE, PCG, PG, SBUX, TOL, VMW)

Posted: September 18, 2009 at 8:10 am

These are this Friday morning's top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls from Wall Street affecting shares: Allstate (ALL) Raised to Buy at Argus. American Tower Corp. (AMT) Started ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (ATHN, SCHW, FPL, GENZ, IMAX, SONC)

Posted: September 18, 2009 at 8:07 am

These are this Friday's top analyst downgrades and cautious research calls we have seen from Wall Street firms: athenahealth (ATHN) Cut to Sell at Auriga. Charles Schwab (SCHW) Cut to ...
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Merrill’s Ex-CEO Thain Puts More Pressure On B of A (BAC)

Posted: September 18, 2009 at 5:58 am

John Thain, former CEO of Merrill Lynch, says that Bank of America (BAC) misled investors about the timing and the amount of compensation given to Merrill's employees. Thain put his ...
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Sirius XM (SIRI) Gets Nasdaq Warning On Stock Price

Posted: September 18, 2009 at 5:40 am

Sirius XM (SIRI) faces a possible delisting from the Nasdaq, according to a disclosure by the company. The firm's common stock closed below $1.00 per share for 30 consecutive business days. ...
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Citigroup (C) CEO Admits $100 Million Pay Package Excessive

Posted: September 18, 2009 at 5:09 am

Citigroup (C) CEO Vikram Pandit admitted what most people already believe. Paying an individual banker $100 million in the current climate is not responsible or right. According to Reuters, when asked ...
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The Ghost Of Christmas Yet To Come

Posted: September 18, 2009 at 4:50 am

The battle cries of retailers as the approach this holiday season is “may a fool and his money soon be parted.” Unfortunately, there are fewer fools than there were two ...
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Why is American Airlines Rearranging the Deck Chairs?

Posted: September 18, 2009 at 4:46 am

By Robert Herbst of AirlineFinancials.com American Airlines (AMR) recent announcement made one thing very clear.   --Sorry St Louis, it's nothing personal it's just business!--   It doesn't take a ...
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