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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Shamed Wall St. Ex-CEO Thain May Run CIT (CIT)

Posted: January 12, 2010 at 6:40 pm

John Thain, former co-president of Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and CEO of The New York Stock Exchange and Merrill Lynch, who was virtually shamed into retirement after Merrill was bought by Bank of ...
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Google (GOOG) May Leave China–Completely

Posted: January 12, 2010 at 6:25 pm

Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) made a threat to China which does not have a precedent in the actions of any other US company. It threatened to pull its business from China due to ...
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Cablevision Value Watch: Madison Square Garden Spin-Off (CVC, MSGNV, MSG, GBL)

Posted: January 12, 2010 at 6:13 pm

Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) has approved the spin off of Madison Square Garden to Cablevision shareholders.  Madison Square Garden is the home venue of the New York Knicks and ...
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Ferrero Out? Cavity in Chocolate Merger… (CBY, KFT, HSY)

Posted: January 12, 2010 at 1:26 pm

Cadbury plc (NYSE: CBY) may have just found out that it might need to be a bit more receptive to Kraft Foods Inc. (NYSE: KFT) in the buyout process, if ...
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Job Openings Dive, Helps Argument For Tax Credits

Posted: January 12, 2010 at 11:29 am

Job openings hit new lows in November, down to 2.415 million from 2.571 million in October and 3.311 million in November 2008, according to the BLS. There were 6.35 unemployed ...
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Magnifying Refinery Woes (CVX, XOM, XTO, COP, VLO, MRO, HES)

Posted: January 12, 2010 at 9:39 am

The notion that an integrated oil giant is issuing an earnings warning with oil above $80.00 per barrel may seem ludicrous to most on the Street.  Yet that is exactly ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (1/12/2010)

Posted: January 12, 2010 at 8:46 am

Updated throughout the day. Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) is in talks with Cuomo to settle legal issues involved with its buyout of Merrill Lynch (NYTimes) The Federal Reserve made $45 billion ...
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Top Analyst Positive Research Calls (AFL, AXP, CY, MRVL, PG, PRU, TIF, UA, TXN, X)

Posted: January 12, 2010 at 8:45 am

These are this Tuesday's top analyst downgrades and cautious research calls we have seen from Wall Street analyst reports: AFLAC (NYSE: AFL) Raised to Equal-Weight at Barclays. American Express (NYSE: ...
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Top Analyst Caution Calls (ANF, AEO, ADI, AA, ALTR, CL, LEAP, PMCS, XLNX)

Posted: January 12, 2010 at 8:41 am

These are this Tuesday's top analyst downgrades and cautious research calls we have seen from Wall Street analyst reports: Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) Started as Market Perform at Wells ...
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Cold Weather And Short-Term Crude Prices

Posted: January 12, 2010 at 8:21 am

By Paul Ausick of 24/7 Wall St. Unusually cold weather in many parts of the globe is threatening industrial production, crops and home heating. Demand for heating oil has contributed ...
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Looking Beyond the Immediate Effects of Policy

Posted: January 12, 2010 at 8:16 am

By John Tamny of Forbes "Nature recks nothing of intentions, good or bad; the one thing she will not tolerate is disorder, and she is very particular about getting her ...
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Largest Search Engine In China Taken Down By Hackers

Posted: January 12, 2010 at 6:10 am

Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) may want to take note. China's largest search engine, Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), was taken down by hackers and several reports say users were pointed to an ...
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Frequent TV Viewers Face High Death Rate

Posted: January 12, 2010 at 5:56 am

There is nothing new about the medical opinion that people who get little exercise are more likely to face health problems and even higher mortality than individuals who exercise frequently. It ...
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New Store Signs Can Spy On Customers

Posted: January 12, 2010 at 5:38 am

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) have created technology that will allow signs in stores to detect a customer's gender and which products a shopper looks at. According to The Wall Street ...
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PC Prices May Jump As Chips Become Scarce

Posted: January 12, 2010 at 5:11 am

The prices of most PCs have been down over the last three years as consumers looked for bargains and the market became crowded with machines from China and Taiwan. The ...
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