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Monthly Archives: December 2009

RIM’s (RIMM) Quarter: No Damage From Apple (AAPL)

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) posted earnings after Street consensus was $3.78 billion in revenue and $1.04 a share. Guidance was for $3.6 billion to $3.85 billion and EPS of $1 to ...
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Oracle Shows How It’s Done, Still Wants Sun (ORCL, SAP, JAVA)

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 4:17 pm

Oracle Corp. (NASDAQ: ORCL) has posted its earnings at $0.29 EPS on a GAAP basis, but $0.39 EPS on a non-GAAP basis.  Revenues were $5.86 billion for the quarter.  Thomson ...
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52-Week High Club (APWR, PIR)

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 4:02 pm

A-Power Energy Generation Systems (NASDAQ: APWR) rose over 10.3% to a yearly high of $20.60 after the Chinese power system manufacturer announced that it signed a deal to supply turbines ...
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Risks in Exxon-XTO Merger? (XOM, XTO, CVX, BP, RDS-A, CHK)

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 2:58 pm

It seems that the huge game-changing deal between Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) and XTO Energy Inc. (NYSE: XTO) may have more than just one risk associated with it.  The ...
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Gold May Be Dead For Rest of 2009 (GLD, GDX, ABX, GG, NEM, GDXJ)

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 12:59 pm

If there was a single trading event for investors, traders, and speculators from early October to early December, it was not stocks and was not bonds.  It was not even ...
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RIM/Blackberry Network Down Nationwide?

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 10:48 am

News is coming in from Blackberry users that the Research In Motion network is down nationwide and the Blackberry access is impossible. Nice news right before RIM (NASDAQ:RIMM) earnings. Update: ...
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Moody’s Calls Bottom in Homebuilders, Sort Of (XHB, ITB, HOV)

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 10:46 am

Moody's Investors Service has raised the bias and outlook on the U.S. homebuilder sector this morning.  Its report was titled "U.S. Homebuilding Industry Shows Signs of Stability" and the ratings ...
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Worst PR Of The Day: Sen. Ted Kaufman

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 10:09 am

Sen. Ted Kaufman may be the most self-aggrandizing member of Congress. His office sends out press releases ever few days about his stances on the financial services industry and other ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (FSLR, EZCH, YONG, C, SQNM)

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 9:03 am

These are this Thursday's top day trader alerts and active trader alerts.  We have links to more details and analysis over at VSInvestor.com for each stock: First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/17/2009) (GE)(AMR)(AIG)

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 8:52 am

Updated throughout the day. Tudor Investments will close its largest fund to investors  (Bloomberg) Steve Cohen of SAC made money illegally trading on the RCA buyout by GE (NYSE:GE)  (Cohen's ...
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Meredith Whitney Pans Goldman & Morgan (GS, MS)

Posted: December 17, 2009 at 8:14 am

Financial stocks were already looking mixed at best early this morning with the largest offering in capital markets history pricing last night for a trade today.  But Meredith Whitney, of ...
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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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