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Monthly Archives: September 2009

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Asia Market And Europe Open 9/14/2009

Posted: September 14, 2009 at 3:31 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell 2.3% to 10,202. Toyota (TM) fell. The Hang send dropped. 1.1% to 20,929. The Shanghai Composite rose 1.2% to 3,027. At the ...
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The 100 Most Valuable Brands Of 2009?

Posted: September 13, 2009 at 9:01 pm

Several consulting firms post annual figures for the world's most valuable brands. The two best known are probably the Interbrand and BrandZ surveys. They are notably different, up until now ...
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The Unusual Suspects (GT, CTB, S, DT, LOPE, BBY, ORCL, PALM, GLD, CSX, UNP, RGR)

Posted: September 13, 2009 at 12:27 pm

We have a whole host of stocks and sectors to watch throughout this coming week.  We have Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (NYSE: GT) and Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. ...
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Deutsche Telekom (DT) May Offer To Buy Sprint (S)

Posted: September 13, 2009 at 7:24 am

Deutsche Telekom's US cellular carrier T-Mobile only has 33 million subscribers. That puts its a distant fourth in the market behind Sprint (S) Verizon Wireless (VOD)(VZ) and AT&T (T). It means ...
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Major Earnings on Deck This Coming Week (ADBE, BBY, KR, ORCL, DFS, FDX, PALM, PIR, JAVA)

Posted: September 12, 2009 at 12:29 pm

We have a little flurry of key earnings coming this week.  We have provided detailed earnings estimates with Thomson Reuters consensus figures, with our own color for the recent performance, ...
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Government To Pay For GM Managers To Get Higher Pay

Posted: September 12, 2009 at 8:01 am

GM will restore the full salaries of management workers who were forced to take pay cuts last spring. Of course, because GM losses money and is relying on $50 billion ...
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US Government Slaps China On Tire Imports

Posted: September 12, 2009 at 7:38 am

A good old-fashioned trade war may be heating up between the US and China with the Administration firing the first shot. A number of global think tanks have worried that ...
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Three More Bank Closings Brings 2009 Total To 92

Posted: September 12, 2009 at 7:28 am

The FDIC became receiver for three more US banks, which means a total of 92 have been closed this year. The agency announced that Corus Bank of Chicago would close. ...
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MetroPCS Merger Hopes… A Leap or Prayer? (PCS, LEAP, VM, S)

Posted: September 11, 2009 at 4:04 pm

If you are a regular reader of 24/7 Wall Street, the notion that MetroPCS Communications Inc. (NYSE: PCS) might be a merger play won't be a surprise.  We first noted ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: GM’s Own “Clunkers” Program

Posted: September 11, 2009 at 2:10 pm

The “cash for clunkers” program was not kind to GM. It did not have a single vehicle on the list of the ten most purchased cars which was dominated by ...
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Oil & Gas Rig Counts Falter (OIH, DIG, USO, OIL)

Posted: September 11, 2009 at 2:09 pm

Baker Hughes, Inc. (NYSE: BHI) has released its weekly rig counts and the gains we were seeing look as though they may have started to already peter out.  Throw that ...
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Budweiser Returns For US Investors (BUD, TAP, SAM, HOOK)

Posted: September 11, 2009 at 12:42 pm

 Budweiser is back for US investors.  It has been some time that US investors have been able to invest in an large beer company since  Anheuser-Busch was acquired by InBev.  ...
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Transports Seeing Mixed Show on FedEx Guidance Hike (FDX, UPS, UNP, CSX, YRCW, NSC, KSU, BNI, JBHT, CNW, LSTR)

Posted: September 11, 2009 at 11:33 am

We just noticed over at our volume spike alert service that FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) was already challenging 150% of its average volume and was triple volume what it normally ...
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First Solar’s New CEO High Compensation Package (FSLR, HON, GE)

Posted: September 11, 2009 at 10:43 am

We previously noted how First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) had scored on its new CEO.  Robert J. Gillette is coming out of Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) to take over ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (ALL, MO, AIG, AXL, DSCO, GRMN)

Posted: September 11, 2009 at 9:03 am

These are this Friday's top day trader alert stocks.  We have more color and more detail on price and volume analysis linked through to each at VSInvestor.com: AllState Corp. (NYSE: ...
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