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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMZN, BAC, BDX, CMG, GOOG, JPM, RAX, LEN, TSN, TOL, WFC)

Posted: January 14, 2010 at 8:24 am

These are Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) Raised target to $160 from $130 at Barclays. Bank of America ...
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Obama To Hit Big Banks With 10 Years Of Fees

Posted: January 14, 2010 at 6:15 am

The Obama Administration plans to levy fees on large banks for the next ten years or until the money invested in the financial system through the TARP is entirely repaid. ...
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Google Could Say It’s Sorry

Posted: January 14, 2010 at 5:44 am

News reports say that there was a great deal of testiness in the conversations among top managers at Google (GOOG) about whether it should threaten to pull out of the ...
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Hershey (HSY) May Be Too Small To Win Cadbury (CBY)

Posted: January 14, 2010 at 5:27 am

Hershey (HSY) is once again mentioned frequently as a buyer of Cadbury (CBY). To win a competition it would have to top the $16.6 billion offer from Kraft (KFT) Cadbury shares ...
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US Mortgage Efforts Fail As Foreclosures Sky Rocket

Posted: January 14, 2010 at 5:03 am

There is absolutely no sign that the foreclosure problem in the US is even close to an end point. Data from RealtyTrac shows that there were 3,957,643 foreclosure filings last ...
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HP Rules, Dell Thumped In Q4 US PC Sales

Posted: January 14, 2010 at 4:48 am

The news about PC sales market share in the US never seems to change. HP (HPQ) widens its lead. Dell falters. Asian manufacturers show regular improvement. David Daoud, research manager with ...
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Media Digest 1/14/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT. Bloomberg

Posted: January 14, 2010 at 4:05 am

Reuters: China defended itself against Google's (GOOG) censorship changes. Reuters:   Regulators will face the panel looking at the credit crisis causes. Reuters:   The capex outlook in Japan is weak. Reuters:   ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (1/14/2010)

Posted: January 14, 2010 at 3:42 am

Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose 1.6% to 10,908. The Hang Seng was off .2% to 21,717. The Shanghai Composite rose 1.4%. At the open in Europe, the ...
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T. Boone Pickens Shutters Wind Project (GE, CLNE)

Posted: January 13, 2010 at 7:52 pm

This has already been delayed and rumored, but it appears that oil magnate T. Boone Pickens has given up on his northern Texas Pampa Wind Farm power project.  The economics ...
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LaBranche Exits DMM/Specialist Ops (LAB, NYX, BCS)

Posted: January 13, 2010 at 4:46 pm

LaBranche & Co. Inc. (NYSE: LAB) has been rumored to be making a serious change or sale for some time.  Tonight, that was partially confirmed.  The company has signed a ...
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January Beige Book… Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

Posted: January 13, 2010 at 2:23 pm

Economists, investors, traders, and speculators have looked for each clue as to just when the FOMC is going to end this zero-rate policy on interest rates.  Usually, it is a ...
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Which Countries Own America’s Debt?

Posted: January 13, 2010 at 1:52 pm

The American government owes just shy of $3.5 trillion to foreign governments, corporations and individuals.  The lion's share of this is owned to China and Japan, which own 22.8% ...
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Something Brewing at Eastman Kodak? (EK)

Posted: January 13, 2010 at 1:29 pm

Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE: EK) has been one of the greatest American brands and great American success stories.... of our parents' lives.  For the last decade this has been a ...
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Stocks of Interest In the New Short Interest Data (LCC, CHK, XRX, TWI, ACI, NUE)

Posted: January 13, 2010 at 12:31 pm

The latest short interest numbers were released last night after the close. Overall, short positions dropped into the year end.  However, there are still many stocks in short squeezes due ...
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Baidu: Fundies vs. Chart vs. Short Sellers (BIDU, GOOG)

Posted: January 13, 2010 at 12:10 pm

Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) is seeing perhaps the largest trading session of its sort.  The notion that Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) might be out of China almost entirely represents a ...
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