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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Media Digest (1/21/2009) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 21, 2010 at 3:54 am

Reuters:   Hedge fund Loch Capital is losing customers because of ties to a witness in the Galleon case. Reuters:   China GDP grew 10.7% in the fourth quarter. Reuters:   Obama will ...
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Asia Markets and Europe Open (1/21/2010)

Posted: January 21, 2010 at 3:17 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose 1.2% to 19,868. The Hang Seng fell 1.6% to 20,895. The Shanghai Composite was up .2% to 3,169. At the open in ...
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YouTube To Rent Videos No One Wants For Free

Posted: January 20, 2010 at 5:35 pm

YouTube, the highly popular but unprofitable video-sharing operation owned by Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) will begin to offer movie rentals. This is presumably a way to make money. YouTube is set to launch the services  with  ...
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eBay Looking Good Enough (EBAY)

Posted: January 20, 2010 at 4:30 pm

eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) looks mixed on the reaction despite the positive headline data.  The online auction monopoly posted $0.44 non-GAAP EPS on $2.37 billion in revenues.  Thomson Reuters had ...
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Starbucks Pleases Skeptics (SBUX)

Posted: January 20, 2010 at 4:16 pm

Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) has just reported earnings of $0.33 non-GAAP EPS and $2.72 billion in revenues vs. $0.28 and $2.60 billion in revenue estimates from Thomson Reuters.  The biggest ...
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Newfield’s New Capital Aim (NFX)

Posted: January 20, 2010 at 1:11 pm

Oil and gas developer Newfield Exploration Company (NYSE: NFX) has commenced an offering of $650 million in Senior Subordinated Notes due in 2020. The notes will be offered under an ...
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GE Oil & Gas Goes Deeper into China (GE)

Posted: January 20, 2010 at 9:57 am

General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has an interesting acquisition this morning, one that is far from its normal acquisition of the past.  The company's GE Oil & Gas unit has ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (SIRI, RMBS, WFC, BAC, CREE)

Posted: January 20, 2010 at 9:09 am

These are today's top day trader and active trader alert stocks.  We have more details and analysis via a link to each story at VSInvestor.com: SIRIUS XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (1/20/2010) (BCS)(JPM)(AAPL)(MSFT)

Posted: January 20, 2010 at 8:55 am

Updated throughout the day. The hedge fund industry brought in $4.6 billion in December (Eurekahedge) Barclays (NYSE:BCS) may face a $27 billion deficit (Credit Suisse). JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) is in exclusive talks ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ADM, ALXN, CBS, CPO, IBM, KAR, LXK, EDU, TSCO, XRX)

Posted: January 20, 2010 at 8:24 am

These are this Wednesday's top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls: Archer-Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM) Raised to Buy at Citigroup. Alexion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALXN) ...
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Apple (AAPL) App Store To Bring In $21.6 Billion In 2013

Posted: January 20, 2010 at 6:09 am

Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) App Store brought in $2.5 billion last year according to Gartner. The company accounted for 99% of all mobile application sales in 2009. Apple keeps 90% of that revenue. ...
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Bill Gates Joins Twitter

Posted: January 20, 2010 at 5:54 am

It took Microsoft (NADSAQ:MSFT) founder Bill Gate long enough to join Twitter. Now he can join President Obama and Demi Moore as fans of the social media network based on sending ...
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China Shuts Down Lending

Posted: January 20, 2010 at 5:39 am

The mainland Chinese government moved  in the direction of providing liquidity to its economy last year when it launched it $585 billion stimulus package. Now that the program seems to have been ...
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Cities Will Struggle With High Unemployment For Years

Posted: January 20, 2010 at 5:27 am

The U.S. Conference of Mayors recently released a report that says jobless rates will peak this year but that it will be many years before unemployment numbers reach the lows ...
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Republican Win In Mass Imperils Healthcare Reform

Posted: January 20, 2010 at 5:10 am

By Douglas A. McIntyre of 24/7 Republican Scott Brown has won the Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for almost 47 years. Many analysts expect that this will effectively kill ...
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