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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Tech Titans Still Have $269 Billion Cash For Deals (MSFT, CSCO, AAPL, GOOG, INTC, HPQ, QCOM, EMC, VMW, YHOO, DELL, ORCL, JAVA, AMZN, EBAY)

Posted: November 10, 2009 at 1:07 pm

The recovery is on and mergers are happening, yet the technology sector has been slow to make deals.  Despite some deals already having taken place from the technology giants and ...
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Housing Sales Rise, But Prices Continue to Drop

Posted: November 10, 2009 at 10:28 am

The National Association of Realtors is out with its Q3 data on home sales.  As you would expect, there is some positive data and some cautious data.  The group reported ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (ATVI, ERTS, PCLN, JASO, EPR, BKD, JAVA, ORCL, STAN)

Posted: November 10, 2009 at 9:17 am

These are this morning's top day trader and active trader alert stocks with more details and analysis via a link to VSInvestor.com for each stock: Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI) ...
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9 Of 10 Bank Holding Companies Make The Cut

Posted: November 10, 2009 at 9:08 am

Yesterday, the Federal Reserve reported that 9 out of 10 bank holding companies that were required to raise additional capital to bolster their balance sheets have successfully done so.  The ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (9/10/2009) (AMD)(AMR)(LCC)(CLWR)(MOT)

Posted: November 10, 2009 at 8:38 am

Updated throughout the day. Update 2.52 PM EST:  The antitrust disagreement  between Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) and AMD (NYSE:AMD) may be resolved by a private settlement  (MarketWatch) Updated 12.23 PM EST:  Motorola ...
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Moody’s to AIG Rescue? (AIG)

Posted: November 10, 2009 at 8:31 am

American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is running this morning.  The stock is trading higher this morning on a debt rating comment from last night. It turns out that Moody's ...
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Banks Intend To Buckle Down In The Face of Credit Card Legislation

Posted: November 10, 2009 at 8:22 am

In the FED's most recent bank survey they asked how the banks indented to deal with the Credit CARD Act of 2009.  The Act meant to protect users from sudden ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (ADBE, CETV, ENER, SOLR, KR, RL, RAX, SQNM)

Posted: November 10, 2009 at 7:35 am

These are this morning's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen early this Tuesday morning from Wall Street research calls: Adobe Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ADBE) Raised to Buy at Janney ...
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International Energy Agency Sees Sharp Rise In Global Temperatures

Posted: November 10, 2009 at 6:07 am

The IAE is predicting that use of fossil fuels could cause a very sharp increase in the world's temperature as the demand for energy rebounds from the recession. In its new ...
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Burglary Business Damaged By The Economy

Posted: November 10, 2009 at 5:40 am

Burglaries are falling sharply, very sharply since 1973. The number of victims per thousand households has dropped from just over 100 thirty-five years ago to under 40 last year, according ...
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The Federal Government In the Car Loan Business

Posted: November 10, 2009 at 5:11 am

The federal government is highly active in getting banks to reset loans for people who want to stay in their homes by improving the terms of their monthly payments. The ...
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Electronic Arts (ERTS): M&A And Layoffs Meet At A Crossroad

Posted: November 10, 2009 at 5:02 am

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) did something today that is almost never seen in the corporate world. It made a big acquisition and fired 1,500 of its workers, 17% of the total ...
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A Split With Google (GOOG) Would Hurt News Corp (NWS) And WSJ Badly

Posted: November 10, 2009 at 4:54 am

Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corp (NYSE:NWS), has made it clear that he is done with the BBC and Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) stealing his content and using it to make money. ...
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Media Digest 11/10/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: November 10, 2009 at 3:57 am

Reuters:   Markets hit their 2009 highs. Reuters:   Dodd is set to unveil his financial reform bill which calls for merging many bank regulators. Reuters:   Kraft's (NYSE:KFT) bid for Cadbury turned ...
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Asia Market And Europe Open 11/10/2009

Posted: November 10, 2009 at 3:24 am

Markets in Asia were slightly higher The Nikkei rose .6% to 9,871. Mitsubishi UFJ NYSE:MTU) rose. The Hang Seng was up .3% to 22,269. The Shanghai Composite rose .1% to ...
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