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Monthly Archives: September 2009

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Meredith Whitney Gets More Cautious, Mostly (GS)

Posted: September 10, 2009 at 9:38 am

Meredith Whitney has come out with some key takes this morning that may be raining on the bull's parade.  For starters, Whitney was just named as the #39on the list ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (SWHC, RGR, MON, MOO, ADM, RNWK, TXN, YHOO)

Posted: September 10, 2009 at 9:12 am

These are this morning's top pre-market day trader alert stocks.  We have more color and more detail on price and volume analysis linked through to each at VSInvestor.com: Smith & ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMAG, AAPL, BX, JBLU, LAZ, RSH, SF, TLB, TIF, XRX, YHOO)

Posted: September 10, 2009 at 8:49 am

These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street early this Thursday morning: AMAG Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AMAG) Cut to Hold at Citigroup. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) ...
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Jobless Data Skewed By Holiday

Posted: September 10, 2009 at 8:38 am

The Labor Department has released its weekly jobless claims and the figure showed that there were -26,000 to 550,000 in weekly claims.  The prior week's initial figure of 570,000 was ...
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Respectfully Disagreeing with Peter Morici

Posted: September 10, 2009 at 8:12 am

By John Tamny of RealClearMarkets Peter Morici is a renowned economist and University of Maryland professor of economic means who believes that the "trade deficit" was the "principal cause of ...
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GM Will Probably Sell Opel To Magna

Posted: September 10, 2009 at 7:56 am

The GM board, which was looking at four or give options for its Opel units, has apparently decided to sell it to Magna, one of the current bidders. According to ...
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China: A $1 Trillion Green Technology Market

Posted: September 10, 2009 at 6:17 am

A new report from the China Greentech Initiative, which is made up of several dozen alternative energy companies and government organizations, says that the potential for green technology sales in China ...
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Foreclosures Stay Near Record Highs, Won’t Peak Until Late 2010

Posted: September 10, 2009 at 5:55 am

The carefully watched monthly RealtyTrac data on foreclosures was released earlier today and it paints a picture of a national foreclosure situation that is not improving and is not likely ...
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The Failure Of The Mortgage Modification Plan

Posted: September 10, 2009 at 5:37 am

The Administration's plan to help modify millions of mortgages to keep "worthy" homeowners in their houses is not working. A Treasury Department report shows that 360,165 people had their monthly ...
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GM May Take Opel Into Bankruptcy

Posted: September 10, 2009 at 5:07 am

GM may have learned something from its US-government backed bankruptcy in America. A car company can make it through Chapter 11 successfully and live to have its balance sheet better ...
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Brazil Finds The Largest New Oil Fields In The World

Posted: September 10, 2009 at 4:53 am

BP (BP) last week said it found an oil field deep under the Gulf of Mexico that could yield as much as one billion barrels of oil and gas. Not to ...
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Media Digest 9/10/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 10, 2009 at 4:03 am

Reuters:   GM has made its decision on Opel and will announce it today. Reuters:   Foreign car makers are having trouble with the affluent market in China Reuters:   Steve Jobs made a ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 9/10/2009

Posted: September 10, 2009 at 3:36 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose 2% to 10,514. The Hang Seng was up 2% to 21,263.  The Shanghai Composite was off .7# to 2,925. At the open ...
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Celebrating a Dud at Texas Instruments (TXN)

Posted: September 9, 2009 at 4:46 pm

Texas Instruments Inc. (NYSE: TXN) has come out in a mid-quarter update and raised its guidance.  The new quarterly guidance is $0.37 to $0.41 EPS on  $2.73 to $2.87 billion ...
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Apple Wants Cisco’s Flip Video Market (AAPL, CSCO)

Posted: September 9, 2009 at 3:05 pm

Generally speaking, success and intrigue in a new hot market brings on competition.  It seemed to be a bit of an odd merger to many when Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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