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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Top Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AMZN, CB, CXW, GSK, ITRI, LEAP, LM, PNC, POT, VLO)

Posted: October 23, 2009 at 8:16 am

These are this Friday morning's top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen from Wall Street's research calls: Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) Raised to Outperform at FBR Capital (new ...
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Ten Canadian Companies With Management Compensation Issues

Posted: October 23, 2009 at 6:32 am

The Corporate Library’s latest annual review of corporate governance  at TSX 60 companies in Canada turned up eleven which present high or very high concerns with regard to CEO compensation: Kinross Gold ...
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Odds Of $3 Gas By Year-End Grow

Posted: October 23, 2009 at 6:03 am

It has taken less than three months from oil to go from $65 to $81, a 25% increase. Gasoline prices have not moved up as fast but have risen to ...
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Fortune Magazine To Sharply Cut Publishing Frequency

Posted: October 23, 2009 at 5:29 am

First Portfolio, the business magazine launched just two years ago by publishing giant Conde Nast, folded. Then, the largest business magazine in America, BusinessWeek, was sold by its parent ...
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Book Sellers Ask Justice Department To Review Amazon (AMZN) And Wal-Mart (WMT) Pricing

Posted: October 23, 2009 at 5:14 am

The American Booksellers Association wants to know the motivation of Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Target (NYSE:TGT), and Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) for selling popular books online for under $10. The industry group has asked The ...
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Risk

Posted: October 23, 2009 at 4:49 am

The Federal Reserve proposes that it will “regulate” compensation packages at the top 28 financial institutions in the US. The agency said that its new program is designed to make ...
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Amazon (AMZN): Innovation’s Reward

Posted: October 23, 2009 at 4:37 am

The founders of the large web properties of Web 1.0 are all gone now save one. Yahoo!’s (NASDAQ:YHOO) chief Yahoo!s have very little to do with the company, although one ...
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Media Digest (10/23/2009) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: October 23, 2009 at 3:57 am

Reuters:   Japan Airlines faces $8.8 billion in excess debt if liquidated. Reuters:   Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) beat Wall St. estimates. Reuters:   GM's CEO will get a pay raise. Reuters:   Nokia (NYSE:NOK) sued ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (10/23/2009)

Posted: October 23, 2009 at 3:26 am

Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei rose .2% to 10,283. The Hang Seng was up 1.4% to 22,516. China Life (NYSE:LFC) and Sinpoc (NYSE:SNP) rose. The Shanghai Composite was ...
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Earnings Duel: American Express vs. Capital One (AXP, COF)

Posted: October 22, 2009 at 4:34 pm

American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) and Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF) have both reported earnings this afternoon.  We saw estimates rise in recent days as many lenders were discussing ...
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Amazon (AMZN) Q3 Sales Up 28%, Strong Holiday Forecast: Shares Rocket Higher

Posted: October 22, 2009 at 4:16 pm

Shares of Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) rose nearly 10% after hours to $101.70, well above the stock's 52-week high. Revenue increased 28% to $5.45 billion in the third quarter, compared with $4.26 billion ...
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Wal-Mart Outlines 2010-2011 Growth Plans (WMT)

Posted: October 22, 2009 at 3:06 pm

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) has been having its analyst meeting this week and we now have a release from the company showing its growth plan next year.  This also ...
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Korea Joins China in Foreign Oil Acquisitions in Americas

Posted: October 22, 2009 at 2:49 pm

Harvest Energy Trust (NYSE: HTE) is a Canadian energy trust that has gone unnoticed by many Americans.  Yet today it is one of the top percentage gainers because the trust ...
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Apple (AAPL) Meets The Nokia (NOK) Litigation Machine

Posted: October 22, 2009 at 1:26 pm

Nokia (NYSE:NOK) sued Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)  saying  that Apple's iPhone infringes Nokia patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards. Nokia has a habit of trying to get its way ...
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More DJIA Component Earnings On Deck (AXP, MSFT, HON)

Posted: October 22, 2009 at 12:08 pm

We still have two DJIA components to report earnings this week.  If you can believe it this week marked 12 of the 30 components reporting earnings, and that takes us ...
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