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Monthly Archives: December 2009

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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Android: What Hath Google Wrought

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 5:04 am

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has made impressive strides into the smartphone market since launching the iPhone. There has been plenty of evidence since then that it is taking a part of BlackBerry’s ...
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Media Digest 12/18/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 3:59 am

Reuters:   Merger activity will grow slowly in 2010. Reuters:   Bank of America's new CEO said he would focus on execution. Reuters:   Profits at RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) topped forecasts. Reuters:   Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) posed ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (12/18/2009)

Posted: December 18, 2009 at 3:24 am

Markets in Asia were lower. The Nikkei dropped .3% to 10,142. The Hang Seng fell .7% to 21,193. HSBC (NYSE:HBC) was off sharply. The Shanghai Composite was down 2.1% to ...
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Nike’s Comments on Future with Tiger Woods (NKE)

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 7:01 pm

Most people in America now are probably not as interested in what Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) did for earnings after the closing bell today, but the Tiger Woods story is ...
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S&P Supports Amazon.com… Pullback an Opportunity? (AMZN)

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 6:24 pm

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) may have found a new friend.  Standard & Poor's has come out late in the day with a research note with "positive" credit implications for Jeff ...
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Fannie & Freddie Christmas Gift: No Foreclosures (FNM, FRE)

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 5:03 pm

It seems that Uncle Sam does not want to be the Grinch this Christmas and is giving a gift of no foreclosures during the holidays.  At least its GSE mortgage ...
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Palm’s Slight of Hand (PALM)

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 4:38 pm

Palm Inc. (NASDAQ: PALM) is one of the companies many investors have felt is an at-risk entity.  Yet its reaction after the earnings call today is not signaling that.  The ...
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