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Daily Archives: November 20, 2009

Hershey Longs For Cadbury?

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 4:46 pm

The trust that controls Hershey has asked the company to make a bid for UK sweets company Cadbury (NYSE:CBY). The Wall Street Journal reports that the offer would be approximately $17 billion ...
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52-Week High Club (DDS, DBRN, SJM, MRK)

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 4:11 pm

Dillard's Inc. (NYSE: DDS) rose as high as over 10% to a yearly high of $15.79 after the department-store chain was upgraded by Deutsche Bank AG.   Dress Barn Inc. ...
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Unusual Friday Options Activity (AAPL, GOOG, BAC, LEAP, PCS, DRYS, YHOO)

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 3:24 pm

We have seen some unusual options trading today.  As you would expect, some is around today's 4:00 PM close  with today being options expiration date.  But some bets are way ...
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Next Week’s Top 10 Earnings on Deck (HPQ, TSN, CPB, LDK, TECD, BKS, BGP, JCG, DLTR, DE)

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 1:19 pm

Earnings season has mostly wound down, but as always at least some major companies are reporting earnings.  Some are actually market-movers as well and it is a short week with ...
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Rig Count Growth Mostly Positive (BHI, OIH, DIG, USO, OIL)

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 1:11 pm

Baker Hughes, Inc. (NYSE: BHI) has released its data on the weekly rig counts and most are up. We are watching the key ETF products react via the Oil Services ...
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The Palm Margin Squeeze (PALM, S, AMZN, WMT)

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 9:24 am

Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) has sort of already fallen from grace despite all the hype behind the Palm Pre.  Throw in that Pixi too.  Discounting is trumping what may be ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (11/20/2009) (GS)(JAVA)

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 9:01 am

Updated throughout the day. GE (NYSE:GE) and Vivendi are at odds over the NBCU valuation  (FT) IBM (NYSE:IBM) is taking advantage of the delay in the Sun (NASDAQ:JAVA) deal to be bought ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (BCRX, DELL, DRYS, NVAX, WCRX)

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 8:44 am

These are this morning's top day trader alerts and active trader alerts early this Friday morning.  We have links through to each stock at VSInvestor.com with more data and analysis ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AFL, BRCM, DDS, D, INTC, MRVL, BTU, RTP, STP, TXN)

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 8:05 am

These are Friday morning's top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this morning in Wall Street research calls: AFLAC (NYSE: AFL) Raised to Overweight at Morgan ...
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South Korea Continues To Best US In Auto Trade

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 5:59 am

The AP reports that South Korean auto groups claim that the Asian country exported 600,000 cars and light trucks to the US last year. Only 7,000 American autos were sold in ...
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Microsoft (MSFT) Claims Windows 7 Is Major Success

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 5:40 am

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer told attendees at the company's annual shareholder meeting that Windows 7 sales were astonishingly high. According to a Wall Street Journal account of the gathering, "Microsoft ...
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Vivendi Disputes Value Of GE’s (GE) NBCU Business

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 5:23 am

The much-anticipated deal for Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) to take control of the NBC Universal division of GE (NYSE:GE) may die next week . Vivendi, which owns 20% of NBCU, believes that the entertainment and ...
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Big Goldman Sachs (GS) Shareholders Fight Bonuses

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 4:55 am

A number of large Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) shareholders would like to see the firm's profits in their pockets and not in the bank accounts of the Goldman partners. The Wall ...
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The Federal Reserve Vs. Ron Paul

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 4:35 am

There is a rumor that has been around Hollywood for decades that some of the greatest silent film comedy scripts were created by screen writers who would bribe wardens ...
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Media Digest 11/20/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 20, 2009 at 3:56 am

Reuters:   The Senate is near its first vote on healthcare. Reuters:   Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) is betting on corporate spending for its recovery. Reuters:   Time Warner's (NYSE:TWX) AOL showed that the worst ...
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