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Monthly Archives: December 2009

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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Citi Prices Largest Offering in U.S. History; Wrong Time & Price (C)

Posted: December 16, 2009 at 7:00 pm

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) was already in our "top after-hours trading movers" because of weakness in its share price on the discounted secondary offering.  That is no longer conjecture.  Citi's ...
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Top After-Hours Trading Movers (FSLR, CNO, HOV, FUN, C)

Posted: December 16, 2009 at 6:09 pm

We have several key movers in the after-hours trading session tonight.  We have more details for price and volume analysis and comparison data on each stock with a link over ...
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First Solar Mixed Guidance, Great Reception (FSLR)

Posted: December 16, 2009 at 4:21 pm

First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has laid out its 2010 financial guidance, and it announced plans to add eight production lines at its manufacturing center in Kulim, Malaysia starting production ...
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Team Health IPO Scores Poorly on IPO Report Card (TMH)

Posted: December 16, 2009 at 3:38 pm

Team Health Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: TMH) did not drop out of the chute, but many are going to say that Team took one for the team.  The company priced 13.3 ...
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Select Retail Short Squeezes? (PSUN, FINL, TRLG)

Posted: December 16, 2009 at 3:22 pm

Short sellers could be on the run here in several retailers. Each day our software tracks stocks that have high short interest and are either short squeezes or potential short ...
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Bernanke Keeping Status Quo on Rates… For Now

Posted: December 16, 2009 at 2:39 pm

Ben Bernanke may be Time Magazine's person of the year.  But today Bernanke was listed as the market watchdog of the day because the FOMC voted to keep rates steady ...
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A Take On M&A and IPOs For 2010

Posted: December 16, 2009 at 2:04 pm

2009 has been far from an IPO-packed year compared to other years in this decade.  Ditto for mergers and acquisitions.  Many of the IPOs that price earlier in 2009 have ...
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DOE Inventory Pleases Energy Bulls (OIH, USO, OIL)

Posted: December 16, 2009 at 10:44 am

There is some mixed data from the Department of Energy on its weekly inventory data today, although the negatives here seem to outweigh the gains.  We are watching the Oil ...
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Did Intel (INTC) Intimidate IBM (IBM) And HP (HPQ)?

Posted: December 16, 2009 at 9:58 am

The FTC has brought a case against Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) which has now been accused of monopolistic behavior in Europe, the State of New York, and the United States. The FTC ...
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