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Daily Archives: November 13, 2009

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Paulson Takes Huge Stake In Citigoup, Dumps Goldman

Posted: November 13, 2009 at 5:50 pm

John Paulson is rather notorious, and wealthy, for how much he picked up by shorting financial stocks on the way down.  But the financial world found out in August that ...
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Beazer Files to Raise $750 Million (BZH)

Posted: November 13, 2009 at 5:03 pm

Beazer Homes USA, Inc. (NYSE: BZH) has just filed a mixed securities shelf registration that will allow it to sell securities in the amount of up to $750 million.  This ...
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Are Silicon Storage Holders Getting Enough? (SSTI)

Posted: November 13, 2009 at 3:00 pm

Silicon Storage Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: SSTI) is trading up on a private equity and management-led buyout.  SST is flash memory maker based in Sunnyvale, California.  While the company has entered ...
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Retail & Apparel Earnings Dominate Next Week (SKS, BJ, GYMB, ANN, DKS, FL, GPS, SHLD, PLCE, WTSLA, ZUMZ)

Posted: November 13, 2009 at 11:36 am

It seems that earnings season is winding down, but next week we have many of the key retail and apparel players reporting earnings.  Saks Incorporated (NASDAQ: SKS), BJ's Wholesale Club ...
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Another Sign That China Rules The World: Mercedes Sales

Posted: November 13, 2009 at 10:23 am

As another sign of the truth that most of the world's rich people have moved to China or were born there, sales of the $150,000 Mercedes S class are now higher in ...
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Many Key SPACs on Deck (PAX, TOH, EST, TCW, CFQCF, GQN, NSAQ, CIO)

Posted: November 13, 2009 at 9:23 am

We have been given some exclusive data from SPACupdate.com on the progress of many blank check and special purpose acquisition companies which their targets and relevant trading data. Prospect Acquisition ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (11/13/2009) (PALM)(INTC)(AMD)

Posted: November 13, 2009 at 9:00 am

Updated throughout the day. Updated 10.30 AM EST: PALM (NASDAQ:PALM) shares are up on speculation that Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) or Nokia (NYSE:NOK) will buy the faltering handset firm (VSInvestor) Former Goldman ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (ANF, RINO, CADX, TSTC, PLA, JWN)

Posted: November 13, 2009 at 8:53 am

These are this morning's top day trader and active trader alert stocks.  More detailed analysis and data has been offered via a link to each story at VSInvestor.com: Abercrombie & ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (ADBE, FDX, JNPR, LVS, MSFT, ORCL, QCOM, CRM, NCTY, WYNN)

Posted: November 13, 2009 at 7:59 am

These are this Friday’s top early analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations from Wall Street research calls which may be moving shares of the underlying stocks: Adobe Systems (NASDAQ: ADBE) Started ...
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Exxon: Weak Dollar Adding $20 to Oil Prices (XOM, USO)

Posted: November 13, 2009 at 7:53 am

The weak dollar has definitely been a contributor to the rise in the price of gold.  And it is also partly responsible for some of the oil gains that took ...
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Global Recovery Grows As France And Germany Rebound

Posted: November 13, 2009 at 7:30 am

Germany and France, the two largest economies in Europe posted modest third quarter GDP growth. Germany's economy grew 0.7% in the period that ended September 30 and France announced a ...
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Video Game Sales Fall Back In October

Posted: November 13, 2009 at 6:30 am

September sales for video game consoles were relatively good given the economy. Price cuts on the Nintendo Wii, Sony (NYSE:SNE) PS3, and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox stimulated activity. It appears that the ...
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Target (TGT) Promotes $3 Appliances

Posted: November 13, 2009 at 6:11 am

DVDs and e-books that sell for under $10 is one thing. Appliances that sell for $3 is another. Target (NYSE:TGT) is offering toasters, coffee makers, and slow roasters at $3 ...
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Too Many Apple (AAPL) Stores

Posted: November 13, 2009 at 5:53 am

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) will have too many retail stores at some point. It will face the "Starbucks problem" of over-building. Starbucks once boasted that it would eventually have 40,000 coffee shops ...
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The Swine Flu Epidemic Fails To Do Economic Damage

Posted: November 13, 2009 at 5:12 am

Swine flu vaccinations have been slow to get to those who want to be treated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that about 22 million American have contracted ...
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