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Monthly Archives: September 2009

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Oil Prices Stubbornly Above $72

Posted: September 17, 2009 at 5:41 am

Many economists and energy forecast firms argue that oil supply will be abundant in 2010 and demand will be modest. That does not seem to matter to oil traders. The ...
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Double-Digit Unemployment As Far As The Eye Can See

Posted: September 17, 2009 at 5:16 am

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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Toyota (TM) To Spend $1 Billion To Get Back US Momentum

Posted: September 17, 2009 at 5:03 am

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Media Digest 9/17/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 17, 2009 at 4:04 am

Reuters:   The competition to dominate the green car market is increasing. Reuters:   Obama will pressure the G20 on Wall St. reform. Reuters:   Oracle (ORCL) earnings missed targets. Reuters:   Opel's sales ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 9/17/2009

Posted: September 17, 2009 at 3:30 am

Markets in Asia were sharply higher. The Nikkei rose 1.7% to 10,444. The Hang Seng was up 2.4% to 21,918. The Shanghai Composite rose 2% to 3,060. At the open ...
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eBay(EBAY) Shares Down On Skype Suit

Posted: September 16, 2009 at 5:57 pm

eBay (EBAY) shares are trading down about 2% at $23.96 on news that a company owned by Skype's founders has filed a filed a copyright suit against the VoIP company, ...
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Eastman Kodak (EK) Shares Fall On KKR Investment

Posted: September 16, 2009 at 5:44 pm

KKR must not carry the clout it once did. Eastman Kodak (EK) announced that it expects to raise up to $700 million through a series of financing transactions, including a ...
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Oracle’s Earnings… Alligator Arms (ORCL)

Posted: September 16, 2009 at 4:19 pm

Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) was having a rough day ahead of its earnings and things don't look much better after the report.  The CRM leader posted a 5% rise in ...
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Shanda IPO Taking Shape (SNDA, GAME, CYOU, SOHU)

Posted: September 16, 2009 at 4:05 pm

The spin-off IPO for Shanda Games Limited (NASDAQ: GAME) is coming next week and the company has set the expected price band for its 63+ million American Depositary Shares in ...
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How Much Higher Can Omniture Bid Fetch? (OMTR, ADBE, MSFT, GOOG, TWX)

Posted: September 16, 2009 at 3:03 pm

Omniture Inc. (NASDAQ: OMTR) seems like another niche ad-tech play that has gone on over the recent years, but it could possibly be much more.  Adobe Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) ...
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Oracle Earnings and the Shade of the Sun (ORCL, JAVA)

Posted: September 16, 2009 at 12:32 pm

Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) is on deck for earnings after the close of trading today.  The consensus estimates from Thomson Reuters are $0.30 EPS and $5.25 billion in revenues.  The ...
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24/7 Wall St TV: A Real-Time 500 Largest Companies In America

Posted: September 16, 2009 at 12:23 pm

There are a number of lists of the largest US public companies and the largest companies from overseas. These are published by several business magazines both in their print editions ...
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The DJIA 10,000 Psyche (AIG, C, DIA, SPY, GLD)

Posted: September 16, 2009 at 11:19 am

While everyone is stuck talking about the one year anniversary of the Lehman implosion and the real start of the next-to-last big leg down in the financial sector, there is a ...
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Shaking It Up in Weekly Oil Inventories (OIH, USO, OIL)

Posted: September 16, 2009 at 10:42 am

The weekly data on oil inventories from the Department of Energy is out and we are seeing another bullish yet mixed bag here in the numbers for oil prices.  We ...
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Buffett Visits Planet of Women (BRK-A, KFT, CBY, WLP, UNH)

Posted: September 16, 2009 at 10:02 am

CNBC's Becky Quick interviewed Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) at a very unusual venue this morning.... Fortune's Most Powerful Womenconference.  The mainstay part of the discussion was ...
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