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Monthly Archives: December 2009

A Championship Season For JA Solar (JASO)

Posted: December 15, 2009 at 10:34 am

The solar energy sector has been beaten down for the better part of the last year. There have been concerns about over-supply of product and low demand because of the ...
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Array Biopharma (ARRY) Gets Lucky

Posted: December 15, 2009 at 10:23 am

Small biopharma stocks sometimes have that one big day, the day that there investors wait for. Array Biopharma (NASDAQ:ARRY) moved higher by 30% early in the day to $3.11. The ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/15/2009) (BAC)(BRCM)(AIG)

Posted: December 15, 2009 at 9:27 am

Updated throughout the day. The senior management at AIG (NYSE:AIG) is broke because of losses on stock and low compensation.  (WSJ) Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) will get a new CEO ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (WFC, JASO, LIMS, ARRY, GILD)

Posted: December 15, 2009 at 8:31 am

This morning's top day trader and active trader alerts are below with links to VSInvestor.com on each stock story with more detailed data and analysis: Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AEP, MT, BBT, HON, INTC, LEAP, MSFT, NWS, HOT, WEN)

Posted: December 15, 2009 at 7:37 am

These are this Tuesday's top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from early Wall Street research calls: American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) Cut to Hold at Jefferies. Arcelor Mittal ...
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Buffett Dumping More & More Moody’s (MCO)

Posted: December 15, 2009 at 6:44 am

It wasn't that long ago that we gave a list of stocks that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) needed to dump to help pay for its Burlington Northern ...
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Airlines Expect Massive Losses In 2010

Posted: December 15, 2009 at 5:29 am

Lower oil prices and a resurgent economy should help the airlines post improved results in 2010, but that expectation is hardly true. The industry lost $11 billion in 2010. The ...
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Microsoft (MSFT), RIM (RIMM), And Apple (AAPL) To Benefit From Increased Corporate Spending

Posted: December 15, 2009 at 5:05 am

Corporate IT spending will pick up in the first quarter of 2010. That is the finding of a new research survey from ChangeWave. A total of 1,753 respondents involved with corporate ...
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Media Digest 12/15/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 15, 2009 at 4:00 am

Reuters:   Citigroup (NYSE:C) and Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) will pay back TARP funds. Reuters:   Kraft (NYSE:KFT) says it will be disciplined in its Cadbury (NYSE:CBY) buyout effort. Reuters:   Some of AIG's (NYSE:AIG) ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (12/15/2009)

Posted: December 15, 2009 at 3:29 am

Markets in Asia fell. The Nikkei was off .2% to 10,083. The Hang Seng fell 1.2% to 21,814. The Shanghai Composite was off .9% to 3,274. At the open in ...
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The Market Returns To Gambling: IPOs To Triple In 2010

Posted: December 15, 2009 at 3:17 am

The DJIA went above 10,500 for the first time in fourteen months yesterday.  That is an impressive move from under 6,550 in early March. It is easy to argue that ...
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No New CEO For B of A, Wells Fargo Repays TARP

Posted: December 14, 2009 at 6:41 pm

Citigroup's (NYSE:C) announcement that it will pay back its TARP funds was not enough news for the day from the banking sector. Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) will not hire Robert ...
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Top 50 Websites Dominated By Search And E-Mail (GOOG)(YHOO)(MSFT)(AOL)

Posted: December 14, 2009 at 4:40 pm

The Top Fifty websites based on their percent of US online visits from January to November 2009 are dominated by search and e-mail. The top dozen sites according to data from ...
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52-Week High Club (V, XTO, CAMD)

Posted: December 14, 2009 at 4:07 pm

California Micro Devices Corp. (NASDAQ: CAMD) surged over 53.11% to a yearly high of $4.67 after the chipmaker agreed to be bought out by ON Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: ONNN) for ...
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Twelve Huge M&A Deals For 2010: The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of

Posted: December 14, 2009 at 1:48 pm

M&A activity picked up in the second half of 2009 as the market moved up and access to capital for big companies improved. Corporate debt offerings soared and banks began ...
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