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Monthly Archives: December 2009

Bing Likely To Lose China Battle To Google And Baidu

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 6:24 am

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) wants to make it clear that it expects its Bing search engine to enjoy the same success in China that the software company believes it will have in the ...
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Google (GOOG) Pushes To Make YouTube The Video Entertainment Hub For The World

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 6:01 am

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has had trouble figuring out how it will make money from its huge video sharing website YouTube since it bought the company for $1.65 billion in October 2006.  ...
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The First Quarter Should See A Surge In Consumer Spending

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 5:39 am

Consumer confidence and spending will rise very sharply over the next three months based on new data from research firm ChangeWave. The firm's December survey of 2,690 people indicates that ...
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The Problem With Late Research, Or No Research At All

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 5:27 am

comScore, which measures online consumer behavior, is among the best companies at analyzing traffic to websites.  comScore also decodes what people do when they get to their online destinations. The ...
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A New Threat To Cell Phone Security From An Old Source—The Hacker

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 5:13 am

Nothing stays safe forever, at least not in the world of information technology and digital communication. Hackers are able to break into sophisticated bank security systems and steal money. Talented ...
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Short Sellers Mob Big Banks And Telecoms (BAC)(C)(VZ)(T)

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 4:22 am

Short sellers took huge positions in major banks and telecom companies in the two-week period ending December 15. The short interest in Citigroup (NYSE:C) rose 30% to 281 million ahead of ...
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Media Digest 12/29/2009 Reuters, WSJ, NYTime, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 4:00 am

Reuters:   GM is offering huge incentives to sell its inventory of Pontiacs and Saturns. Reuters:   Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) will overhaul the pay of senior management. Reuters:   The departing AIG (NYSE:AIG) general ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (12/29/2009)

Posted: December 29, 2009 at 3:27 am

Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei rose a fraction to 10,638. Toyota (NYSE:TM) and Honda (NYSE:HMC) moved up. JAL hit record lows on fears of bankruptcy. The Hang Seng ...
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Apple: When Speculators Rule Over Investors (AAPL)

Posted: December 28, 2009 at 7:14 pm

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) closed at another new all-time high today of $211.61 and $213.95 on an intra-day basis.    What is actually far more important than reports of a ...
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IPO FILING: Codexis Inc. (CDXS, MAXY, RDS-A)

Posted: December 28, 2009 at 5:41 pm

Codexis, Inc. has filed its paperwork with the SEC for an initial public offering.  The company plans to trade under the ticker "CDXS" on NASDAQ.  Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs ...
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Case-Shiller ETFs Bite The Dust (UMM, DMM)

Posted: December 28, 2009 at 4:56 pm

The death of an ETF is generally viewed as a failure or as an ill omen for other related ETF's.  Today that is not the case despite the death of ...
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IPO Filing: Excel Trust, A REIT Soon-To-Be (EXL)

Posted: December 28, 2009 at 1:38 pm

There was an interesting filing for an initial public offering that was put in at the SEC after most investors, brokers, advisors, and traders had already headed home either for ...
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Crude Prices Headed North (OIH)(USO)(OIL)

Posted: December 28, 2009 at 12:46 pm

Crude oil futures rose to their highest point in seven weeks this morning, trading above $79/barrel. Cold, snowy weather in the Northeast and the Midwest are the likely suspects ...
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Mixed Tech-Leader Short Selling, Only Partial Tell (AAPL, AMZN, CSCO, MSFT, GOOG, YHOO, INTC, ORCL, QCOM, RIMM, QQQQ)

Posted: December 28, 2009 at 11:22 am

We have seen what appears to be a mixed bag of shares listed in the short interest of the most active NASDAQ tech stocks traded day in and day out.  ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (AAPL, AMCS, IBM, CGEN, UAUA, FNM, FRE, VICL)

Posted: December 28, 2009 at 8:47 am

We have compiled Monday's top pre-market day trader and active trader alert stocks.  There is a link to each story for more detail and analysis at VSInvestor.com: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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