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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Top Day Trader Alerts (AAPL, BPAX, CAT, FNM, FRE, MGM, NVAX)

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 8:58 am

These are this morning's top day trader alerts.  We have more detailed price and volume data along with added color over with links through to each stock at VSInvestor.com: Apple ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/20/2009) (NWS)(NVDA)(BCS)

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 8:53 am

Updated throughout the day. Updated 12.33 PM EST: The CIA will start spying on social media activity  (CNET) Updated 10.15 AM EST:  Oil could hit $175 a barrel by 2016 ...
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Wholesale Inflation Remains Muted

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 8:43 am

The Labor Department has released the September Producer Price Index, the measure of wholesale inflation.  We did see a slightly raised Consumer Price Index last week and that had many ...
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Coke (KO) Lite

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 8:21 am

Third quarter earnings at Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) came in under expectations which is pushing shares down before the open. Revenue fell 4% to $8.4 billion. Net income was flat at $2.15 ...
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Good News At Cat (CAT)

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 8:13 am

Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) beat most Wall St. expectations, and improved its guidance for the balance of 2009. The news pushed the stock up before the open of trading. CAT said it had ...
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5 Wins in DJIA Component Earnings (CAT, KO, DD, PFE, UTX)

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 8:07 am

We have seen the earnings reports from all five DJIA components which were on deck to report this Tuesday.  We are seeing a theme here: almost all posted lower earnings ...
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Pfizer (PFE) Earns OK

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 8:06 am

Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) had a better quarter than many expected. The drug company reported financial results for third-quarter 2009. Revenues were $11.6 billion, a decrease of 3%. EPS fell to $.51 ...
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China Threatens Nylon Trade War

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 7:56 am

Nylon seems like an innocuous enough product, but the material used to make goods like rope and pantyhose appears to have pushed the United States and China closer to a ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AMZN, BAC, BA, BSX, F, LEAP, PCS, SPR, UA, WEN)

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 7:45 am

These are this Tuesday's top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls which we have seen early in the morning: Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Raised to ...
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Apple (AAPL) iPhone To Launch In China With 1,000 Stores

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 6:26 am

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will launch the iPhone in China with China Unicom (NYSE:CHU) on October 30 with "1,000 points of sale," according to a transcription of the company's earnings call done by ...
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Video Game Sales Recover, Sony (SNE) Takes First Place

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 6:09 am

Price cuts work. In September, Sony's (NYSE:SNE) PS3 outsold the Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii for the first time in recent memory. Industry research firm NPD said that ...
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As Germany Opens Opel Funding, GM Could Keep The Unit

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 5:44 am

The German government got in trouble with EU regulators because it only offered $6.7 billion in aid to one of the bidders for GM's Opel unit. That bidder was Canadian car ...
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The Economy’s 90/10 Rule

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 5:07 am

Economists spend nearly all of their time now trying to figure out whether the recovery will stay on course and if GDP in the US will recover at 4% or ...
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Dow Back To 14,000 By May (AAPL)(GOOG)(GS)(JPM)(GE)

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 4:57 am

It has taken the DJIA a little over 32 weeks to move from 6,547 to just over 10,000, a move up of 53%. The index will be back over 14,000 ...
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Media Digest (10/20/2009) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 20, 2009 at 4:02 am

Reuters:   Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) beat earnings forecasts. Reuters:   The IRS is probing some homebuyers' tax credit gains. Reuters:   The US is ready to bring more insider trading cases. Reuters:   More US ...
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