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Daily Archives: December 17, 2009

Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AMT, AMLN, BAC, BVF, CCI, ERTS, FRX, INTC, Q, VZ)

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 7:56 am

These are this Thursday's top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: American Tower Corp. (NYSE: AMT) Started as Buy at Deutsche Bank. Amylin Pharmaceuticals ...
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Turning A Ford Into An iPod

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 6:20 am

Almost every business in the world that has hardware devices that run customized software want to create their own version of the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store. Apple claims that developers ...
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Twenty Percent Of American Lost Health Insurance Since Early 2008

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 6:07 am

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that roughly 20% of American, 60 million people, were without health insurance at some point between the beginning of 2008 and now. ...
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Housing Recovery Can Wait Until 2011

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 5:45 am

The Wall Street Journal pointed out that many people are defaulting on their home mortgages not because they have to but because it makes sense. Some homeowners can afford the ...
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No Further Holiday Price Discounts

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 5:36 am

The fun part of the holiday season that involves getting things on sale may be ending. Retailers have managed their inventories better than they did last year. Large stores will ...
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The Apple (AAPL) Board Members: $127,000 A Meeting To Do Nothing

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 5:27 am

New data from search firm Spencer Stuart shows that members of the boards of three American public companies make more than $100,000 a meeting. Two of the first are not ...
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Will Congress Keep Raising The Debt Ceiling?

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 5:11 am

The only chance that Republican House members and other Congressmen have to cap the rise of new spending bills is to put a ceiling on the national debt. There are ...
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Here Comes The Sun: Solar Stocks Soar (FSLR)(JASO)(ASYS)

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 4:59 am

Early this year most solar stocks traded at multi-year lows. There were concerns that the demand for solar energy installations was being hurt by the recession and that component costs ...
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Media Digest 12/17/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 3:51 am

Reuters:   Obama's poll ratings on the economy dropped. Reuters:   Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) picked insider Brian Moynihan as CEO. Reuters:   Bernanke's confirmation should pass its first hurdle. Reuters:   The US ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (12/17/2009)

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 3:16 am

Markets in Asia were lower. The fell .1% to 10,163. Mitsubishi UFJ (NYSE:MTU) fell. The Hang Seng was down 1.5% to 21,305. The Shanghai Composite was lower by 2.3% to ...
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