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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Apple (AAPL) App’s Biggest Enemy–China

Posted: November 22, 2009 at 1:45 pm

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is counting on its relationship with China Unicom (NASDAQ:CHU) to drive iPhone sales in a nation which already has over 500 million mobile subscribers. The head of Unicom said he ...
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eBay Crashes on Saturday (EBAY)

Posted: November 21, 2009 at 6:51 pm

eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is having an issue which may have just cost sellers millions and millions of dollars in untold profits today.  After doing random searches today on Christmas ...
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It Looks More Likely GE (GE) May Keep NBCU, Force Job Cuts

Posted: November 21, 2009 at 11:34 am

With the passing of each hour, there are more media reports that talks between GE (NYSE:GE) and Vivendi for the French company to sell its 20% of NBCU to the American ...
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Barnes & Noble (BKS) Runs Out Of E-Readers: Amazon (AMZN) Stands Alone

Posted: November 21, 2009 at 7:27 am

Sony (NYSE:SNE) said it might not have its e-reader, the Daily Edition Reader, ready to ship before Christmas. It has given customers a range of dates for availability of its product that ...
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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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