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Monthly Archives: December 2009

52-Week High Club (MMM, COO)

Posted: December 9, 2009 at 4:04 pm

3M Company (NYSE: MMM) rose nearly 4% to a yearly high of $79.93 after the Post-It Notes maker was upgraded to "buy" by Jeffrey Sprague of Citigroup. The Cooper Companies ...
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24/7 Wall St. TV: Citi Trying to Exit TARP (C, WFC, BAC)

Posted: December 9, 2009 at 3:32 pm

If the rumor mill is accurate, it seems that Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) may get to beat Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) in the race to exit the TARP ...
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New Quasi-Competition For Gold Trust ETF (GLD, PHYS)

Posted: December 9, 2009 at 2:50 pm

It looks like the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) is about to get some new competition, albeit far a far smaller trading vehicle.  A F-1 filing at the SEC was ...
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Google Recaptures Lost Search Share Dominance (GOOG, YHOO, MSFT, IACI)

Posted: December 9, 2009 at 2:24 pm

If new data out of Experian Hitwise is accurate, then Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) is again taking market share in the US search market against competitors Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) ...
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Immelt Speaks at West Point: Future Leadership Path (GE)

Posted: December 9, 2009 at 1:22 pm

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has a unique speech with what will seem like some very new direction occurring today.  Chairman & CEO Jeff Immelt has prepared a speech for ...
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Why Extend The TARP?

Posted: December 9, 2009 at 11:49 am

Treasury Secretary Geithner has told Congress he will extend the existence of the TARP program through next October, but it is not clear that every member of the House and Senate will share his ...
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Mixed Oil Inventories; Refineries Return (OIH, DIG, USO, OIL)

Posted: December 9, 2009 at 10:47 am

The weekly oil inventory data from the Department of Energy is out with some very mixed data.   The headline data on crude may be a shocker, but the rest of ...
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Spain Joins Credit Rating Negativity (BBV, STD, REP, TEF, SNF, EWP)

Posted: December 9, 2009 at 9:37 am

Monday and Tuesday came the downgrades for Greece by ratings agencies.  Now it is Spain's turn, or at least the writing is on the wall.  Standard & Poor's has revised ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/9/2009) (AINV)(AAPL)(CBY)

Posted: December 9, 2009 at 8:55 am

Updated throughout the day. Obama intends to extend the term of the TARP and may use some of it for deficit reductions (CNBC) Howard Stern may not renew his contract ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (AAPL, SQNM, NLST, DNDN, TXN, AVNR)

Posted: December 9, 2009 at 8:51 am

These are this morning's key day trader and active trader alert stocks.  We have given more details and analysis on each stock and story with a link over to VSInvestor.com: ...
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UK To Tax Almost Every Banker Bonus 50%

Posted: December 9, 2009 at 8:20 am

The executives and traders at Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and other successful financial firms in the US had better hope that the American government does not follow UK precedent on collect ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (ATK, CA, KR, LLL, LMT, RTN, SQNM, S, MMM, VNDA)

Posted: December 9, 2009 at 7:43 am

These are this Wednesday’s top ten analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from today's Wall Street research notes: Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) Raised to Outperform at Macquarie. CA Inc. (NYSE: ...
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Speeding Up Holiday Travel: Transportation Security Administration Put Airport Security Rules Online

Posted: December 9, 2009 at 6:09 am

The best way to speed through airports this holiday may be to cheat the system According to The Washington Post, "The Transportation Security Administration inadvertently revealed closely guarded secrets related ...
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The Weakness Of Government Numbers, The Trouble In Japan

Posted: December 9, 2009 at 6:01 am

The numbers on the sharp GDP improvement in the Japanese economy for the third quarter were not correct. The Japanese government says that they were not even close. Originally, the ...
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TARP’s Failures Described By Congressional Oversight Panel

Posted: December 9, 2009 at 5:49 am

The Congressional Oversight Panel says in a new report that the TARP did one thing and did it well. It prevented the terrible panic in the credit markets from spreading while ...
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