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Daily Archives: December 18, 2009

An Unreasonable Case That Housing Is Undervalued

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 4:07 pm

IHS Global Insight has released a report that say that housing price in the US rose by .2% in the third quarter compared to the second. The research firm looks ...
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More Mixed Rig Count Data (BHI, OIH)

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 1:15 pm

Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI) has just released its new weekly rig count data.  Today's data looks mixed again, which is another indication that perhaps the swinging back and forth ...
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BofA’s New CEO Brian Moynihan: No More Acquisitions (BAC)

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 1:03 pm

Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) is still well under 100 hours of announcing that Brian Moynihan would replace Ken Lewis as CEO of the largest US bank by domestic ...
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GM: A Tear With Every Saab

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 12:31 pm

General Motors can't get brand exit strategies right regardless of who is running the show there.  Government Motors held a press conference today to discuss the death of the Saab ...
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Meredith Whitney Now Pouncing on JPMorgan (GS, MS, JPM)

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 11:17 am

Meredith Whitney must be staggering her bank coverage news out to get more exposure, or at least that is a cynical take on the matter. Yesterday, she hit Goldman Sachs ...
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Worst PR Of The Day: AT&T (T)

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 9:18 am

AT&T (NASDAQ:T) has had trouble with its network, reported due to the huge amount of activity by Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone customers. Today, the phone company's PR firm, Fleishman-Hillard, put out ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (RIMM, PALM, DEER, ORCL, LDK, TTWO)

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 9:01 am

These are this Friday's top day trader alerts in the pre-market trading.  We have more details on the news but more importantly for the traders on the data and analysis ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/18/2009) (GOOG)(GENZ)(TTWO)

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 8:52 am

Updated throughout the day. The auto task force says GM and Chrysler are recovering ahead of schedule (Reuters) Carl Icahn may force a sale of Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ:TTWO) after buying ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AOL, BP, CELG, EMC, MU, NTRS, NTAP, POT, RIMM)

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 8:01 am

These are this Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) Started as Neutral at Goldman Sachs. BP plc (NYSE: BP) ...
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Friday’s Top Options Alert: Bristol-Myers & Mead Johnson (BMY, MJN)

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 7:15 am

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE: BMY) has been a real pest in the world of analyzing options trading activity.  There has been a perpetual open interest alert with a monster contract ...
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Ryanair Kills Orders For 200 Planes In A Blow To Boeing (NYSE:BA)

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 6:06 am

Boeing (NYSE:BA) has had more than its share of troubles over the last two years with delays in the launch of its Dreamliner, labor problems, and disappointing earnings. The clouds ...
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BATS Plans The Other-Other IPO Market

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 6:01 am

BATS Exchange has been an almost stealth success in the world of trading stocks.  In about four years it now claims to have about 10% of the US equity trading ...
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Hackers Take Twitter Down Again

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 5:55 am

Twitter is the third largest social network by most measures behind Facebook and MySpace. Most internet measurement services say that Twitter is the fastest-growing of the three with its pool ...
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Foreclosure Backlog Hits 1.7 Million Homes

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 5:39 am

There are 1.7 million homes on the market which have gone through the foreclosure process. The number is at the highest level in history. The number, up from 1.1 million ...
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The Ten Most Successful Brands Of 2010

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 5:19 am

Brand measurement is a popular exercise. Several major business magazines run brand value lists. The annual Brand Z and Interbrand lists always get heavy press coverage. Companies are concerned about ...
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