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Monthly Archives: October 2009

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“Train Wreck Zelnick” May Be Last Of Bidders For BusinessWeek

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 5:01 am

Thomson Reuters CEO Tom Glocer may want to reconsider being part of an effort to buy BusinessWeek. A report fromPaidContent says "the multimedia business media giant is working as a ...
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Major Blogs Can Lose 90% Of Their Value If Founders Go: Huffington, TechCrunch, Gawker, Drudge

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 4:48 am

The author was a member of the board of directors of TheStreet.com from 2000 to 2005. One of the major concerns of the board was what would happen if Jim ...
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Media Digest 10/13/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 3:58 am

Reuters: The healthcare plan is about to take a step forward in Congress. Reuters:   The debt swap at CIT (NYSE:CIT) is in trouble and could cause bankruptcy. Reuters:   Summers says ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 10/13/2009

Posted: October 13, 2009 at 3:27 am

Most markets in Asia rose. The Nikkei was up .6% to 10,055. Honda (NYSE:HMC) gained. The Hang Seng was up 1.5% to 21,603. HSBC (NYSE:HBC) was up. The Shanghai Composite ...
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Stocks That Missed the Rally (ABT, MO, AWK, BKC, ENER, GENZ, KR, ORB, WMT, LEAP, PCS)

Posted: October 12, 2009 at 5:03 pm

Here we are going into yet another earnings season.  We saw Monday how the market has rallied significantly from the March lows and the major indexes are even up in ...
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52-Week High Club

Posted: October 12, 2009 at 4:20 pm

IBM (NYSE: IBM) hit a yearly high of $126.67 after the company announced that it had renewed its marketing and services relationship with the National Football League. The Blackstone Group ...
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Regulatory Risks Hit Macau Casinos (WYNN, LVS, MPEL)

Posted: October 12, 2009 at 1:44 pm

News out of Macau, China is crushing some of the gambling stocks that have direct operations in Macau.  It looks like the Chinese are considering curbing the number of gambling ...
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The Path to DJIA 10,000 (C, AIG, JNJ, JPM, IBM, NWS, DIA)

Posted: October 12, 2009 at 12:59 pm

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is within sight of the psychological 10,000 mark.  Again. This is a price-weighted index rather than a market cap-weighted index, which makes the index not ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Top Four Tech Earnings on Deck (GOOG)(INTC)(NOK)(IBM)

Posted: October 12, 2009 at 11:16 am

We have many key technology stocks reporting earnings this coming week.  Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) will start things off to give us a read on semiconductors and PCs. International Business ...
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After Levinson, Apple-Google Infighting Likely Rises (GOOG, AAPL)

Posted: October 12, 2009 at 10:58 am

The board of director infighting may be heating up between Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL).  First it was Google's Chairman Eric Schmidt leaving, or being forced ...
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A Solar Win in California, Sort Of (STP, FSLR, SPWRA, PCG, EIX, SRE)

Posted: October 12, 2009 at 9:56 am

The solar sector appears to be lightly benefiting from California legislation efforts that would secure above market rates as a feed-in tariff for small solar power generators.  California already has ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (BDK, DRIV, DNDN, DEPO, KBH, ONXX, V)

Posted: October 12, 2009 at 8:57 am

These are this morning's top day trader and active alert stocks moving on volume.  We have provided links through to each stock with more detailed analysis and data at VSInvestor.com: ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/12/2009) (LAZ)(F)(AAPL)

Posted: October 12, 2009 at 8:28 am

Updated throughout the day. Updated  1.39 PM EST: Charles G. Ward, III, a senior executive at Lazard (NYSE:LAZ) will be named interim CEO at the company pending the recovery of ...
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Dole Sets IPO Terms (DOLE)

Posted: October 12, 2009 at 8:26 am

DOLE FOOD COMPANY, INC. has set the terms for its IPO, which is a Re-IPO after going private back in 2003.  The offering is expected to raise close to $575 ...
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To Fix the Global Economy, Fix the Dollar

Posted: October 12, 2009 at 8:18 am

John Tamny of Forbes For Americans who've been lucky enough to visit foreign soil this decade, the one unfortunate glitch involved learning just how little a dollar can buy overseas. ...
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