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Daily Archives: October 6, 2009

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Verenium Crushed on Offering (VRNMD)

Posted: October 6, 2009 at 10:00 am

If any ethanol is supposed to be feasible, it is cellulosic ethanol.  One player in that sub-sector is Verenium Corp. (NASDAQ: VRNMD).  Unfortunately, its shares are getting crushed this morning ...
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Record Gold Prices Spark ETF/ETN (GLD, SLV)

Posted: October 6, 2009 at 9:16 am

Gold has just hit a new contract high of $1,035.00 on a nominal basis.  While this is far short of an inflation-adjusted price compared to the 1980's highs, this is ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/6/2009) (CTIC)(DDRX)(BA)(XOM)(GOOG)(AIG)(BAC)(AAPL)

Posted: October 6, 2009 at 9:14 am

Updates throughout the day. Update 2.40 PM EST: Biotech Cell Therapeutics (CTIC) is getting crushed, down 13% to $.95 on over 46 million shares. Rumors of insider selling, troubles with OPAXIO ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (AVCT, ETFC, CIT, AIG, IRET, CRUS, NTRI)

Posted: October 6, 2009 at 8:50 am

These are this Tuesday morning’s top day trader alerts and active trader alert stocks for Monday.  We have more details on volume and price analysis on each stock covered at ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (AFL, AMX, GLW, KOF, GIS, HIG, TIF, TJX)

Posted: October 6, 2009 at 8:03 am

These are this Tuesday morning's top pre-market analyst upgrades, initiations, or relatively positive research calls from Wall Street: AFLAC (NYSE: AFL) Raised to Neutral from Sell at UBS. America Movil ...
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Top Analyst Downgrade/Cautious Calls (AIG, ARRS, CHK, DVN, IGT, PEP, RIMM)

Posted: October 6, 2009 at 8:00 am

These are Tuesday's top pre-market analyst downgrades or cautious research calls seen out of Wall Street: American International Group (NYSE: AIG) Resumed as Neutral at UBS, so technically not a ...
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T. Boone Pickens Outlines 2010 Oil Price Targets (CLNE)

Posted: October 6, 2009 at 7:54 am

T. Boone Pickens gave a CNBC interview this morning with new energy predictions and trends to watch that he has not discussed before.  Pickens is still maintaining that natural gas ...
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Chrysler Fires Top Management As Sales Get Worse

Posted: October 6, 2009 at 6:00 am

Chrysler is in deep trouble. It is deep enough that analysts and the media have questioned whether it has enough cash to make it through a turnaround, especially in a ...
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Holiday Retail Sales To Be Battered

Posted: October 6, 2009 at 5:43 am

Retail sales dropped 3% or more during the 2008 holiday period. Same-store sales at a number of large chains were down much more than that. The trend was so bad ...
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The Pay Czar Seizes Power From Bank Boards

Posted: October 6, 2009 at 5:09 am

SEC regulations for public companies say that compensation committees for the boards at public companies recommend pay for senior managers and those recommendations are then given to the entire board ...
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The Solar Shingle And The False Promise Of New Technology

Posted: October 6, 2009 at 4:46 am

Microsoft’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows 7 will be better than Microsoft Vista. The world’s largest software company has learned from the mistakes it made with Vista which users found too complicated. But, ...
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Media Digest 10/6/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 6, 2009 at 3:53 am

Reuters:   The pay czar plans to rework employee pay at large banks. Reuters:   Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) may enter the tech M&A frenzy. Reuters:   Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) says some Hotmail passwords were exposed. ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 10/6/2009

Posted: October 6, 2009 at 3:24 am

Markets in Asia were up slightly with Shanghai closed. The Nikkei rose .2% to 9.692. The Hang Seng was up .7% to 29,564. At the open in Europe, the FTSE ...
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