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Monthly Archives: October 2009

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Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) Online: Health & Beauty & $.97 Shipping

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 12:39 pm

It just got a little harder to be in the health and beauty retail business either in stores or online. Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) has started to sell products from a e-commerce ...
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Intel To Set Tech Earnings Pace (INTC, AMD, SMH, USD)

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 12:25 pm

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) reports earnings after the close of trading today and is the first of the tech giants to report.  Consensus estimates from Thomson Reuters have actually come ...
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Siemens Shows Wind Energy is Alive (SI, DUK, BAM, GE, ZOLT, BWEN)

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 11:30 am

Siemens AG (NYSE: SI) is showing that wind energy is not as dead as many might have you believe. This morning the company issued a press release showing that wind ...
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RailAmerica Comes Public, Again (RA, FIG)

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 9:54 am

Private equity firms keep exiting their old buyouts when they can.  This morning we have an initial public offering from RailAmerica, Inc. (NYSE: RA) for some 22,000,000 shares of common ...
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Cuban’s Demand For Legal Fees May Have Spurred SEC Appeal

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 9:52 am

Last week the SEC announced that it intended to appeal the dismissal of insider trading charges against Mark Cuban. Cuban is accused of having sold his stake in Mamma.com after the ...
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Cisco (CSCO) Fans M&A Flames, Buys Starent (STAR) For Premium

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 9:31 am

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) was certainly anxious to buy Starent Networks (NASDAQ:STAR). It paid $35 a share for the supplier of IP-based mobile infrastructure solutions. Starent closed at $29 yesterday. ...
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Top Day Trader Alert Stocks (CIT, C, GS, JNJ, NVAX, VNDA, VASC)

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 9:15 am

These are this morning's top day trader alert stocks.  We have more detailed price and volume analysis on each stock link over at VSInvestor.com: CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) is ...
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CIT Chairman/CEO Out (CIT)

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 8:17 am

CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) is now effectively without a CEO.  The troubled financial company has just announced that Jeffrey M. Peek informed CIT's board of directors of his plans ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/13/2009) (STIC)(LVLT)(LVS)(ENER)(GE)(SNI)

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 8:06 am

Updated throughout the day. Updated 3.14 PM EST:  STIC (NASDAQ:STIC) dropping on rumors that Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) database applications may hurt STIC sales  (Barron's) Updated 3.11 PM EST:  Level 3 (NASDAQ:LVLT) ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (C, CY, DRYS, LRCX, ONNN, PSUN, PKX, RL)

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 7:50 am

These are this morning's top analyst upgrades and positive research calls from Wall Street firms we have seen with about two hours until the market opens: Citigroup (C) Started as ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (CRZO, COH, LDK, SYNA, SJM)

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 7:47 am

These are this morning's top analyst downgrades and cautious calls from Wall Street firms we have seen with about two hours until the market opens: Carrizo Oil & Gas (CRZO) ...
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Meredith Whitney Dumps Goldman Sachs Ahead of Earnings (GS)

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 7:21 am

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is on deck for earnings this week.  Its earnings news may have just been derailed by a key influential analyst call.  Meredith Whitney, now ...
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Crude Pushes Back Toward $75

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 6:02 am

If a very minor recovery in the global economy pushes oil back toward $75, what will a robust expansion do? Crude moved to $73.79 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The ...
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CIT (NYSE:CIT) Closer to Bankrutcy

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 5:42 am

Investors who have dumped CIT (NYSE:CIT) stock since September 29 are looking smart. The shares have dropped from $1.67 on the 29th to $1.04. It appears that debtholders of paper ...
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T-Mobile And Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Offer $100 Gift Card For Lost Data

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 5:25 am

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and T-Mobile (NYSE:DT), who have managed to lose the personal data of thousands and thousands of customers who have the carrier's SideKick product because of failures of Microsoft server ...
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