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Monthly Archives: October 2009

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Media Digest 10/28/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 28, 2009 at 3:59 am

Reuters:   The Nielsen survey shows consumer confidence up in the US for the first time since 2007. Reuters:   Obama's financial reforms are advancing in Congress. Reuters:   The pay czar said ...
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Asia Markets (10/28/2009)

Posted: October 28, 2009 at 3:21 am

Markets in Asia were mixed The Nikkei fel 1.4% to 10,075. Honda (NYSE:HMC) rose on good earnings and Toyota (NYSE:TM) and Sony (NYSE:SNE) are about to announce their results. The ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: CNBC Manages To Lose 50% Of Its Audience

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 8:00 pm

It may be that when the stock market is not moving up or down 20% a month that people lose interest. That seems to be the case if the new ...
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Apollo’s Woes (APOL)

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 4:44 pm

Apollo Group Inc. (NASDAQ: APOL) is the clear leader of the private-sector public education companies.  Yet, that leadership position is coming with some severe pain after its earnings.  Apollo reported ...
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Visa Solid, But Not Immune (V, MA)

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 4:22 pm

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) is reporting some stellar earnings considering the environment and this appears to be the 6th or 7th beat against estimates.  The credit card processing giant posted ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Apple, The DVD Killer

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 3:49 pm

The music industry never saw the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPod coming. The iPod was an expensive toy when it was introduced in 2001. There was no reason to think it would ...
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The Smart Grid Surge Hitting Home (ITRI, COMV, ELON, ED, CEG, DUK, FPL, NVE, POM, SO)

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 3:37 pm

We are seeing at least some significant moves from the company's who have announced that they are grant recipients under part of the $3.4 billion Smart Grid pledge from the ...
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Level 3 Earnings To Outline Direction (LVLT)

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 2:34 pm

Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: LVLT) is set to release its third quarter 2009 earnings results on Wednesday morning before the open and plans to hold a conference call at ...
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Has the S&P 500 Index Peaked? (SPY)

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 12:16 pm

The SPDRs (NYSE: SPY) is perhaps the most liquid of all ETF products in the world as it tracks the benchmark S&P 500 Index.  One of our affiliates has just ...
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Bankruptcy in Wind Turbine Maker Highlights Sector Risks (GE, SI, ZOLT, OTTR, BWEN)

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 11:33 am

Wind energy is supposed to be one of the key puzzle pieces in the quest to get off the dependence of foreign energy sources.  Yet a fairly disturbing story from ...
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Confidence Heads Back South

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 10:18 am

All of the optimism from Joe Q. Public may be waning if the most recent data from The Conference Board holds up. Particularly as job anxiety keeps mounting.  The October ...
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Ideation Cleared for China Advertising Activities (IDI, FMCN, VISN, AMCN)

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 9:51 am

Ideation Acquisition Corp. (AMEX: IDI) has been freed up to become SearchMedia, as expected.  The special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, issued a release noting that its shareholders approved all ...
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Chrysler Gambles On Fiat Models

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 9:48 am

Fiat never managed to sell many cars in the U.S. when it was competing with The Big Three and the Japanese makers, and in 1981 it pulled out of the ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (10/27/2009) (SNE)(UTX)(BRK.A)

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 9:13 am

Updated throughout the day. Updated 10.21 AM EST: The pricing of the Ancestry.com IPO may be much too high.  (BreakingViews). Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) new social search feature may not include industry ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (AGNC, BIDU, BLDP, ICGN, WYNN)

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 8:52 am

These are this morning's top day trader alert stocks on unusual trading volume and price action.  We have provided a link through to each stock at VSInvestor.com with more details ...
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