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Monthly Archives: October 2009

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IAC Starts to Recapture Some Ground (IACI, OPEN)

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 8:12 am

IAC/InterActiveCorp (NASDAQ: IACI) seems to be recapturing some of its mojo.  The online content and online destination and search company noted that asset sales did help profits at a time ...
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Desperately Seeking Bruce Bartlett

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 8:08 am

By John Tamny In his brilliant 1981 book Reaganomics, economist Bruce Bartlett observed that "to the Keynesians, all tax cuts are the same." Seeking to show why that was not ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (COG, COCO, INTC, RSH, SOHU, SE, TXN, HTM, VZ, WSH)

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 7:54 am

These are the top ten analyst calls for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this Tuesday morning from Wall Street: Cabot Oil & Gas (NYSE: COG) Raised to ...
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Apple (AAPL) Has Huge Jump In Smartphone Share

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 6:15 am

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is coming very close to becoming the preferred smartphone in America, which would topple RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) from the top spot. The new iPhone 3GS is giving the company ...
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Baidu (BIDU): China’s Search Engine Has Clay Feet

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 5:56 am

Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), China's No.1 search engine based on market share, had the same problem Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) does. Its revenue is not growing as fast as it was last year. The critical ...
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Newspapers Cut To Black

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 5:41 am

Not too many years ago, one senior newspaper executive said that there was nothing wrong with cutting costs but that, eventually, a company could cut so much that it would ...
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The Twenty Companies That Wall St. Can Trust The Least

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 5:31 am

Wall St. likes financial statements that give it deep insights into a company's operations, especially its liabilities. It likes boards that make sure shareholders get as complete a picture as ...
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Apple’s Tablet Computer: The DVD Killer

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 5:13 am

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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Short Interest Up In Financials, Mixed In Tech (FRE)(CIT)(EBAY)(INTC)

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 4:12 am

Short interest in a number of major financial firms rose for the period ending October 15. Shares short in Citigroup (NYSE:C) rose 51% to 178.1 million. The short interest in ...
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Media Digest 10/27/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 3:57 am

Reuters:   UBS (NYSE:UBS) will put in a new US chief. Reuters:   Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) says "dark pools" help investors. Reuters:   The US is welcoming the rise of the yuan. Retuers:   ...
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Asia Markets (10/27/2009)

Posted: October 27, 2009 at 3:28 am

Markets in Asia were sharply lower. The Nikkei fell 1.5% to 10,212. Honda fell (NYSE:HMC). The Hang Seng was down 1.7% to 22,197. China Life (NYSE:LFC) rose. The Shanghai Composite ...
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Auctioning Off Central Park

Posted: October 26, 2009 at 6:51 pm

Rumor has it that several auctioneers collapsed from exhaustion during the four-day process of selling 9,000 homes and properties which have been seized by tax collectors in Wayne Country, Michigan. Detroit ...
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The DryShips Earnings Anchor (DRYS)

Posted: October 26, 2009 at 4:53 pm

DryShips Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) posted what some may take as mixed earnings despite the stock's reaction in the after-hours session.  The headline figure looked disappointing at first with a report ...
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When Special Dividends Don’t Deliver (MOS, MOO)

Posted: October 26, 2009 at 4:27 pm

Sometimes special dividends make sense, and sometimes they do not.  Mosaic Co. (NYSE: MOS) traded lower most of the trading day after the fertilizer and potash giant declared a special ...
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DryShips Earnings on Deck (DRYS)

Posted: October 26, 2009 at 1:16 pm

DryShips, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRYS) is set to report earnings this afternoon.  Calling this one the more volatile stocks in a volatile space would be redundant at a minimum.  While we ...
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