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Monthly Archives: October 2009

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Oil Tries to Interpret Inventory Data (OIH, USO, OIL)

Posted: October 7, 2009 at 11:27 am

The Department of Energy gave some critical data in its weekly oil inventories.  Frankly, you can make a bullish case here and a bearish case as well.  The drop in ...
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Major Secondary Offerings Keep Coming (ALTH, ATAX, ARYX, APPY, GRS, LINE, SGMO, CAR)

Posted: October 7, 2009 at 11:09 am

We are seeing more and more waves of secondary offerings continue to hit the Street since the stock market has held up. Many stocks are close to near-term highs and ...
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Citi Pumps Vonage (VG)

Posted: October 7, 2009 at 9:29 am

Vonage Holdings Corporation (NYSE: VG) was a recent huge winner on news that it was going to enter the apps market and would be available on iPhones and more.  The ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/7/2009) (NOK)(AAPL)(JPM)(GE)(WYNN)

Posted: October 7, 2009 at 9:22 am

Updated throughout the day. Updated 2:44 Dell Inc. (NYSE: DELL) will launch a branded Android smartphone thru AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) and possibly other carriers next year.  Source today is ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (C, RPRX, AAI, AVNR, AA, LINE, VICL)

Posted: October 7, 2009 at 9:00 am

These are this Wednesday morning's top day trader and active trader stocks with price and volume moves.  More detailed price and volume analysis has been provided with a link to ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: $10 Trillion In Baby Boomer Cash

Posted: October 7, 2009 at 8:00 am

Baby boomers control $10 trillion in assets. A great deal if not most of that money has been invested in the stock market as this part of the population attempted ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades (ANF, CSCO, KO, GR, HMY, KSS, NWS-A, DIS, VIA-B)

Posted: October 7, 2009 at 7:59 am

These are this Wednesday mornings top pre-market analyst upgrades and positive research calls we have seen early on from Wall Street: Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) Raised to Equal Weight ...
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Top Analyst Downgrades (AU, BP, CBST, GFI, SNN, STJ, TSM)

Posted: October 7, 2009 at 7:56 am

These are this Wednesday mornings top Wall Street analyst downgrades and cautious research calls we have seen early this morning: Anglogold (AU) Cut to Neutral at Nomura. BP plc (BP) ...
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What’s That Bar Code Doing On The Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Homepage

Posted: October 7, 2009 at 6:01 am

The Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) logo has been replaced with a bar code today. The company many be the only large corporation in the world which is willing to take the risk ...
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Hope For Retail: Costco (NASDAQ:COST) Beats The Street

Posted: October 7, 2009 at 5:55 am

Costco (NASDAQ:COST) announced earnings that beat Wall St. expectations. Net sales for the fiscal 2009 fourth quarter  ended August 30, 2009 were $21.89 billion, a drop from $22.63 billion in the ...
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Sirius XM (NASDAQ:SIRI) Management’s Big Stock Sales

Posted: October 7, 2009 at 5:42 am

There are two ways to look at management's sales of millions of shares in Sirius XM (NASDAQ:SIRI). One is that the executives saved the company from an almost certain bankruptcy ...
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Citigroup (NYSE:C) Tries To Dump Its $100 Million Man

Posted: October 7, 2009 at 5:10 am

Andrew Hall, the head of Citigroup's (NYSE:C) Philbro commodities trading unit, has been a thorn in the side of the bank since it was disclosed that he made as much ...
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Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Slashes Kindle Price, Goes Global

Posted: October 7, 2009 at 4:55 am

Forrester Research recently completed a survey of 5,000 Americans in which it asked about the amount people would pay for e-book readers.  Most respondents said they would not spend more ...
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Media Digest 10/7/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 7, 2009 at 3:56 am

Reuters:   Wealth management firms are starting to target the not-so wealthy. Reuters:   Gold's record price drew a muted response. Reuters:   Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Palm (NASDAQ:PALM) are heating up ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open 10/7/2009

Posted: October 7, 2009 at 3:22 am

Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei rose 1.1% to 9,800. The Hang Seng was up up 2.5% t0 21,325. Shanghai was closed for a holiday. At the open in ...
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