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Apple: Court Rules Psystar Cannot Sell Mac Knock-Offs

Posted: November 16, 2009 at 3:15 am

In a court case that began last year, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) charged the young upstart Psystar, which makes Mac knock-offs, with a host of copyright and trademark violations. The venerable computer ...
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Earnings Duel on Deck: Lowe’s vs. Home Depot (LOW, HD)

Posted: November 15, 2009 at 10:46 am

This week's earnings calendar is going to be dominated by retail earnings.  Early in the week you have the home improvement and building material wars with earnings first out of Lowe's ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: China Pushes US To Raise Interest Rates Which Would Undermine Recovery

Posted: November 15, 2009 at 7:49 am

The Federal Reserve and most economists believe that keeping US interest rates at near zero has been critical to the recovery of the American economy. Even with rates at historically ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Should Starbucks (SBUX) Serve The Deranged?

Posted: November 14, 2009 at 8:49 am

Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) is s fine place for the homeless and deranged to spend their time. The purchase of one cup of coffee gives them access to comfortable chairs, bathrooms, and ...
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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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