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Monthly Archives: December 2009

A Severe Ethics Lapse As NBC Flies Victim Of Custody Battle From Brazil

Posted: December 30, 2009 at 5:53 am

An American father got to take his son home from Brazil after a horrendous custody battle with the child's step-father which lasted for five years. No one would be shocked ...
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Credit Card Charge-Offs Rise As Firms Collect Record Interest Payments

Posted: December 30, 2009 at 5:27 am

Moody’s reports that credit card charge-offs by financial firms hit 10.56% in November. This represents sums that lenders feel they will not be able to collect .The credit rating agency expects ...
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Hackers To Hit Apple iPhone, Google Android Handsets Next Year

Posted: December 30, 2009 at 5:14 am

Roel Schouwenberg of Kaspersky Lab Americas made a number of either intemperate or prescient comments to USA Today. It may take a year to find out if he is a fool or ...
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Neiman Marcus And Sears Crushed In New E-Commerce Survey

Posted: December 30, 2009 at 4:56 am

Customer satisfaction with the e-commerce operations at Neiman Marcus and Sears (NASDAQ:SHLD) was particularly bad this shopping season based on research covering the 40 largest US retailers based on internet revenue. The ...
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Media Digest 12/30/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 30, 2009 at 4:04 am

Reuters:   GMAC will get $3.5 billion in additional fund from the government. Reuters:   Oil rose near $80 on low supply and the economic recovery. Reuters:   Share in JAL dropped over ...
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The DJIA Race With Nikkei 225 Now Neck And Neck

Posted: December 30, 2009 at 3:34 am

The DJIA average against the Nikkei 225 has the indices almost tied. The Dow closed 10,545 and the Nikkei at 10,546. Douglas A. McIntyre ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (12/30/2009)

Posted: December 30, 2009 at 3:29 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .9% to 10,545. JAL fell sharply again on bankruptcy fears. The Hang Seng was off a small fraction to 21,496. China Life ...
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Disney-Marvel Combo Assures More of That $10 Billion Movie Market (MVL, DIS)

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 12:51 pm

Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: MVL) is about to disappear.  The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) acquisition is set to close this week.  Some have criticized this $4.2 billion cash and ...
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Vigilante Row Seating: Memo To CEOs At American, Delta & Continental

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 12:08 pm

Memo to airline CEOs: Gerald Arpey, AMR (NYSE:AMR); Richard Anderson, Delta (NYSE:DAL) & Larry Kellner, Continental (NYSE:CAL). Subject: Vigilante Row Seating Now that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has made it ...
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New Short Selling Stocks of Interest (ODP, ALU, UMC, MBI, MU, GLW, SKS, HMA, CHK)

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 11:52 am

The recent headlines over the short interest showed a rise on the NYSE and NASDAQ.  In terms of the Top 50 NYSE Jumps In Shorts, a couple key stocks stand ...
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Nokia Intensifies Patent Fight Against Apple (NOK, AAPL)

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 11:30 am

The patent case between Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is not new.  But news this morning on the direction which Nokia is willing to take is ...
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Canadian IPO: Med BioGene Inc. (MBGI)

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 9:57 am

Med BioGene Inc. has filed for an initial public offering in the United States.  Technically this may not be a formal IPO because it trades in Canada where the company ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (FNM, FRE, BNVI, TRMS, VVUS, AAPL)

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 9:01 am

These are this Tuesday's top day trader and active trader alerts.  We have detailed links over on each story for more detail and analysis at VSInvestor.com: Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (12/29/2009)

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 8:46 am

Updated throughout the day. A "meltdown" is coming for the bond market (CNBC) GM will try to sell down its inventories of Pontiacs and Saturns by offering huge incentives (WSJ) Home prices ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AMZN, AMCS, AAPL, CZZ, GS, JEF, MS, UNH)

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 8:27 am

These are this Tuesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in a thin week of coverage and Wall Street research calls: Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Reiterated Outperform but target ...
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