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Monthly Archives: October 2009

There’s Nothing Deflationary About the Present

Posted: October 19, 2009 at 8:03 am

by John Tamny of Forbes In 2001 the late Jude Wanniski observed in the American Spectator that "Only when we fully grasp the importance of this definition of inflation or ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (ACN, AAI, CFN, FSLR, FNM, FRE, GERN, MRVL, LUV, TLAB)

Posted: October 19, 2009 at 7:58 am

These are ten of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen early this Monday morning from Wall Street research notes: Accenture (NYSE: ACN) Cut to Neutral at UBS. Air ...
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Google (GOOG) Apps Passes Two Million Customers

Posted: October 19, 2009 at 6:58 am

Google (GOOG) says it now has two million customers using its Apps products. The online software offers many of the features of Microsoft (MSFT) Windows, but operates on Google's servers ...
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Insider Trading Becomes SEC’s New Poster Child

Posted: October 19, 2009 at 6:14 am

The press and Congress have been unkind to the SEC for the last two years. It has been blamed for missing the trading activity of Bernie Madoff and for not properly ...
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What If Apple (AAPL) Misses Earnings?

Posted: October 19, 2009 at 5:57 am

Wall St. believes that Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will make $1.42 a share for the quarter that just ended on $9.2 billion in revenue. Both figures would be well over 10% higher ...
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American (AMR) And Delta (DAL) Back In The Game For JAL Alliance

Posted: October 19, 2009 at 5:31 am

Signs are pointing to another bailout of Japan Airlines by the Tokyo-based government. That means the carrier could survive without being broken into pieces. JAL is still prized for its ...
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Oil Nears $80 On Its Way Higher

Posted: October 19, 2009 at 5:05 am

Oil  reached $79.05 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That is almost certainly not the end of its rise and for a number of reasons $90 crude is ...
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Media Digest (10/19/2009) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 19, 2009 at 4:03 am

Reuters:   US corporations are concerned about the weakness of the dollar. Reuters:   Bernanke says that global imbalances in trade and cash flows must be addressed. Reuters:   Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) is attacking ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (10/19/2009)

Posted: October 19, 2009 at 3:28 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei was down .2% to 10,237. Mitsubishi UFJ (NYSE:MTU) rose. The Hang Seng was up 1.1% to 22,179. CNOOC (NYSE:CEO) and PetroChina (NYSE:PTR) rose. ...
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The “VW-shaped” Recovery

Posted: October 18, 2009 at 8:19 pm

The UK, home of John Maynard Keynes, has added a new term to the lexicon of descriptions of possible recovery patterns that could end the current global recession. It is  ...
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The Criticism Of Wall St. Bonuses Continues…..

Posted: October 18, 2009 at 7:50 pm

Senior members of the Administration were out in force on the Sunday TV talk shows to criticize the multi-million  bonuses that many Wall St. bankers will get this year. Executives at ...
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The Most Insane Apple (AAPL) App Of All Time

Posted: October 18, 2009 at 8:03 am

Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) App store offers an extraordinarily large number of downloads--more than 85,000. The store has downloaded more than two billion piece of software. Developers are constantly creating new application in the hope ...
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Wall St. Bonus Fever Spreads To UK

Posted: October 17, 2009 at 9:00 pm

Wall St. will not be the only place where key workers will get multi-million dollar bonuses this year. RBS (NYSE:RBC), a UK financial firm which came within days of failing and received ...
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Major Tech Earnings on Deck (AAPL, TXN, SNDK, STX, WDC, YHOO, EBAY, VMW, EMC, AMZN, BRCM, JNPR, SYNA, MSFT)

Posted: October 17, 2009 at 11:25 am

This week is going to make last week's earnings flood look like elementary school.  We have the floodgates opening for technology, web, software, hardware, and IT, and 24/7 Wall Street ...
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IPO Market Showing Concern (MG, TLCR, BSBR, EM, CLNY, RA, FIG, ARI, VITC, ECHO, CPC, GAME, SNDA, CYOU, SOHU, CPIX, OMER, BX)

Posted: October 17, 2009 at 8:45 am

It was just in August that practically every single initial public offering was trading above its IPO price.  The market had rallied significantly, and still rallied after that to just ...
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