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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Asia Markets And Europe Open (1/5/2010)

Posted: January 5, 2010 at 3:25 am

Markets in Asia rose. The Nikkei was up .3% to 10,692. The Hang Seng was higher by 2.1% to 22,286. The Shanghai Composite rose 1.2% to 3,282. At the open ...
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Cramer’s Energy Shortage Stock Picks for 2010 (APC, CHK, XOM, XTO, DVN, SWN, APA, CLR, RRC, LINE, CVX, MRO, WPRT, CLNE)

Posted: January 4, 2010 at 7:20 pm

Jim Cramer came out on CNBC's MAD MONEY this evening with an interesting grouping of stock trends to invest in for 2010 and he thinks this is the year of ...
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52-Week High Club (MEE, X, AA, BUCY)

Posted: January 4, 2010 at 3:59 pm

Massey Energy Company (NYSE: MEE) rose over 5.7% to a yearly high of $44.42, riding a wave of optimism concerning coal and metal stocks following signs that U.S. and Chinese ...
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Fox And Time Warner Cable: Friends, Again

Posted: January 4, 2010 at 1:45 pm

By Paul Ausick Media giants Time Warner (NYSE:TWC) and News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWS) have settled a scuffle between Time Warner Cable and News Corp.'s Fox TV. Fox stands to receive a ...
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2010, The Year of Irish Banks! (IRE, AIB, IRL, STD, BBVA, NBG)

Posted: January 4, 2010 at 1:41 pm

If today's price action is of any indication for the full year, it seems that 2010 may be poised to be the year of the Irish banking sector.  Today's big ...
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Kraft (KFT) Merger Move May Drive More M&A

Posted: January 4, 2010 at 12:00 pm

By Jon Ogg It seems that Kraft Foods (NYSE:KFT) is about to go after Cadbury plc (NYSE:CBY) in the U.K. harder than it already has. Many believe Kraft is about ...
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Google Android Starts To Hurt Apple iPhone Share

Posted: January 4, 2010 at 10:27 am

The rise of the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android mobile operating system has happened so quickly that it has humiliated Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), which has pushed it OS for years with little success.. Android ...
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More Stimulus Could Cause Double Dip Instead Of Preventing One

Posted: January 4, 2010 at 9:16 am

By Douglas A. McIntyre In his op-ed piece in The New York Times on Sunday, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman argued that if the Obama administration and Congress on the ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (1/4/2010) (AMD)(GS)(CBY)

Posted: January 4, 2010 at 9:03 am

Updated throughout the day. Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) may move some of its operations out of London to avoid high taxes on banker bonuses  (London Telegraph) Kraft (NYSE:KFT) will raise its ...
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Will US Bailout Carriers Like Japan Will JAL?

Posted: January 4, 2010 at 8:44 am

By Douglas A. McIntyre Shares in JAL, the flagship carrier of Japan, rose by over 30% Monday as the Development Bank of Japan, which is backed by the government, ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (WTR, EAT, BRCM, CLWR, DUK, FTO, HNSN, INFY, INTC, LVS, MELI, NVDA, TSO, WYNN, UNH, VLO)

Posted: January 4, 2010 at 8:39 am

These are this Monday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Aqua America (NYSE: WTR) Cut to Neutral at Macquarie. Brinker International (NYSE: EAT) Cut ...
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Movie Ticket Sales Race Ahead Of DVDs

Posted: January 4, 2010 at 8:22 am

By Douglas A. McIntyre The digital age was supposed to destroy the movie theater business. Why drive to a multiplex and stand in line to buy four $9 tickets when ...
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Obama’s Ill-Advised Small-Business Tax Cuts

Posted: January 4, 2010 at 8:19 am

John Tamny of Forbes In a speech last month at the venerable Brookings Institution, President Barack Obama laid out a series of objectives meant to stimulate economic activity. As he ...
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DJIA 2010: Best Targets Imply 11,455 (BAC, CVX, CSCO, GE, HPQ, INTC, JPM, KFT, PFE, PG, TRV, WMT, XOM, AA, BA, DIA)

Posted: January 4, 2010 at 6:59 am

We have started taking a look at the 30 stocks comprising the Dow Jones Industrial Average to see which stocks had the most implied upside of all DJIA components.  We ...
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Oil Jumps Above $80: Cold Weather And Overheating Economies

Posted: January 4, 2010 at 6:21 am

Oil prices are back above $80. This time the rise is blamed on cold weather in the Northern Hemisphere. Weather forecasters predict that the winter of 2010 may be especially ...
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