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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Press Digest 1/18/2010

Posted: January 18, 2010 at 6:16 am

Markets in Asia were narrowly mixed and slightly higher in Asia Reuters:   Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is investigating whether an insider helped China's cyber attack. Reuters:   The IMF chief said there could ...
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Google Knuckles Under In China

Posted: January 17, 2010 at 7:43 am

"Hello, I must be going. I cannot stay, I came to say I must be going. I'm glad I came but just the same I must be going."--"Hello, I Must Be Going" ...
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After Google, Wireless Carrier Price Wars Pick Up (GOOG, DT, VZ, T, S, AAPL, RIMM, PALM, NOK, ERIC)

Posted: January 16, 2010 at 11:02 am

There was one issue which concerned us the most after Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) entered the smartphone market, and that was that this might create a race to zero via ...
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Another Blow To Housing: US Mortgage Plan Fails

Posted: January 16, 2010 at 7:49 am

The US government plans to put as much as $75 billion into programs to keep people in their homes and stanch the flow of mortgage delinquencies and foreclosures. The intention ...
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Anonymous Source Story Of The Week: Google Looked For Help

Posted: January 15, 2010 at 1:21 pm

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) tried to get several other US companies to stand by it as it called out the Chinese government about cyber attacks on its e-mail service. However, no other firms ...
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Strike Prices Acting as Tech Share Price Magnets (AAPL, GOOG, AMZN, INTC)

Posted: January 15, 2010 at 11:31 am

An adage in options trading is that the closest and most active strike prices tend to act as magnets that draw share prices that direction as options expiration date gets ...
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$90 Oil… T. Boone Pickens IPO, in Canada

Posted: January 15, 2010 at 10:46 am

It seems that every investor cares about initial public offerings.  And everyone still seems to care about what T. Boone Pickens thinks about the price of oil and what his ...
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Plains All American Taking IPO Spin-off Route (PAA)

Posted: January 15, 2010 at 9:41 am

Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. (NYSE: PAA) is pursuing a spin-off strategy which we have seen elsewhere in the energy patch, but it is a strategy that we saw mostly ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMD, CMA, EGO, INTC, NVO, OMX, POT, PAYX, RTP, SAP, SPLS)

Posted: January 15, 2010 at 8:48 am

These are Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) Raised to Outperform at FBR. Comerica (NYSE: CMA) Raised to ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (1/15/2010) (MOT)(UBS)(CS)

Posted: January 15, 2010 at 8:35 am

Updated throughout the day. Updated 1.14 PM EST  Leap Wireless (NASDAQ:LEAP) may have hired a banker to put itself on the block (Barron's) Updated 1.14 PM  Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) may fire ...
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China’s Forex Reserves Growing to Infinity

Posted: January 15, 2010 at 8:27 am

If you are one of the ones worried that China is taking the world over, you might not need to worry about its military doing that.  At the current rate, ...
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JPMorgan Chase (JPM) Exceeds Expectations By A Mile

Posted: January 15, 2010 at 7:15 am

So much for the talk that the reign of JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) as the top money center bank in the US might come to an end with fourth quarter earnings. The ...
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Largest Risk To Global Stability May Be China Growth

Posted: January 15, 2010 at 6:06 am

China's economic growth is considered by many analysts to be the engine for global GDP improvement. Experts expect China, with its GDP ranked No.2 in the world at close to $5 trillion, will ...
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China’s Internet Population Just Shy Of 400 Million In 2009

Posted: January 15, 2010 at 5:41 am

China's internet population rose to 384 million at the end of 2009, up almost 30% for the year, according to the China Internet Network Information Center. Nearly 30% of the people ...
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Nintendo Rules And Video Game Sales Rebound

Posted: January 15, 2010 at 5:15 am

The Nintendo Wii and the company's ancient DS were supposed to be nearly dead, leaving the door ajar for huge market share gains by the Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox 360 and Sony (NYSE:SNE) ...
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