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Monthly Archives: September 2009

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The New National Employment Anxiety: The Myth Of The Jobless Recovery

Posted: September 8, 2009 at 4:50 am

The press and a number of economists believe that GDP will improve at the end of this year and that the improvement will accelerate into 2010 and 2011. Unemployment improvements ...
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Media Digest 9/8/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 8, 2009 at 4:00 am

Reuters:   Richard Fuld defended his actions at Lehman. Reuters:   Manpower says the outlook for hiring is US is weak. Reuters:   Gold futures topped $1,000. Reuters:   Kraft (KFT) will probably up ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 9/8/2009

Posted: September 8, 2009 at 3:22 am

Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei rose .7% to 10,393. Toyota (TM) traded higher. The Hang Seng was up 1.5% to 20,941. The Shanghai Composite was higher by 1.7% ...
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The Renaissance Of M&A: Kraft (KFT) Bids For Cadbury

Posted: September 7, 2009 at 7:32 am

Kraft (KFT) has made a $16.7 billion bid for Cadbury. The offer is about 30% above Cadbury's current price. Not surprisingly, the offer is based on due diligence and financing, ...
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Media Digest 9/7/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: September 7, 2009 at 6:58 am

Reuters:   Markets in Asia and Europe were mostly higher with many up over 1%. Cadbury rose on an offer from Kraft (KFT). Rio Tinto (RTP) rose. Reuters:   Kraft (KFT) bid ...
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G-20 Wants To Hogtie Major Banks

Posted: September 5, 2009 at 10:15 pm

The finance ministers of the G-20 nations blame most of the collapse of the credit system and a portion of the failure of the global economy on the world's largest ...
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The Unusual Suspects (APP, BRK-A, CPB, MTXX, MCO, MHP, RMBS, QQQQ, GDL, UNH)

Posted: September 5, 2009 at 8:31 am

It is the weekend, albeit a long three-day weekend for Labor Day.  Earnings season is done, gone, bye-bye, but this coming week there are going to be some key events ...
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Tivo’s (TIVO) $200 Million Payday

Posted: September 5, 2009 at 8:21 am

Tivo (TIVO) has moved further down the road in collecting huge penalities from Dish Network (DISH) and Echostar (SATS) for violating the little DVR company's patents. The United States District ...
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BioTech Hostile Takeover: Biogen Plays For Facet

Posted: September 4, 2009 at 3:48 pm

Facet Biotech Corporation (FACT) confirms that it is in receipt of Biogen Idec Inc.'s (BIIB) letter dated September 4, 2009 offering $14.50 per share for all of the outstanding shares ...
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Oil Rig Counts Staying Stronger (BHI, OIH, USO, OIL)

Posted: September 4, 2009 at 1:54 pm

Baker Hughes, Inc. (NYSE: BHI) issued its weekly rig counts and the counts are still going in the right direction overall if you like to see increased drilling activity.  This ...
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IPO FILING: Cobalt International Energy (CIE)

Posted: September 4, 2009 at 12:59 pm

Cobalt International Energy Inc. has now filed to come public via an initial public offering.  While terms were not disclosed, it said it would sell up to $1.15 billion worth ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (ARRY, HGSI, MTXX, NVLS, FNM)

Posted: September 4, 2009 at 9:29 am

Because this is a Friday ahead of a 3-day weekend and because this is Labor Day, the "volume spikes" and the relative trading will be more muted than most trading ...
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Fannie’s NYSE Listing Satisfaction, Celebrating Pain (FNM, FRE)

Posted: September 4, 2009 at 8:53 am

Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) made an announcement that the troubled mortgage giant and GSE received notice yesterday from the New York Stock Exchange that it has regained compliance with the ...
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Unemployment Still Heads Toward Double-Digits

Posted: September 4, 2009 at 8:44 am

The unemployment and change in non-farm payrolls data for August is out, and despite some positive trends seen during the weekly data it just isn't pretty.  The change in nonfarm ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ANF, FRED, FDO, FINL, SEPR, VMED, WTNY, ZUMZ)

Posted: September 4, 2009 at 8:32 am

It is looking pretty thin in analyst calls ahead of the 3-day weekend, but these are some of the top research upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen this Friday ...
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