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Monthly Archives: February 2010

The Unusual Suspects (BRK-B, CH, ECH, NBG, CRXX, COST, TM, F, RDY, MIL, PALM, SIRI)

Posted: February 28, 2010 at 1:49 pm

This coming week we have many key issues coming front and center in our list of "Unusual Suspects."  Some are ongoing issues with mergers and the waves of earnings reports ...
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Apple Finds Underage Labor Problem At Suppliers

Posted: February 28, 2010 at 9:31 am

Apple (AAPL) found that three of the companies that provide it with components to build its products employ underage workers. Apple's 2010 Supplier Responsibility reports says that "Apple discovered three ...
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Toyota CEO Road Trip Goes To China

Posted: February 28, 2010 at 7:45 am

The United States may be Toyota's largest market, but the largest car market in the world is China. After a grilling by Congress and meeting with the Transportation Secretary and employees ...
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A More Confident Berkshire Hathaway Letter From Buffett (BRK-B, BRK-A, AXP, KO, COP, JNJ, KFT, PG, USB, WMT, WFC, DOW, GE, GS)

Posted: February 27, 2010 at 8:30 am

Warren Buffett's new annual letter to shareholders is out.  This is a far different read than a year ago.  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B, BRK-A) said its annual shareholder value ...
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How Much Would A California Earthquake Hurt The Economy?

Posted: February 27, 2010 at 8:02 am

Chile was hit with an 8.8-magnitude quake devastating some parts of the South American country today. Officials say it is the worst earthquake to hit the country in a quarter of a ...
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The Week’s Top Green Business Stories (CPST, DE, FSLR, ESLR, VE, WMT)

Posted: February 27, 2010 at 7:59 am

Many alternative energy stocks themselves may sometimes represent little more than highly leveraged bets on the price of oil.  But there is still big business in the world of clean ...
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Bulls and Bears Fight Over Gold… The $8,000 Call (GLD, SGOL, GDX, GDXJ)

Posted: February 27, 2010 at 7:19 am

Gold was supposed to keep eroding, or so its chart was indicating, earlier this week.  But the weakening dollar vs. euro trade coming back and variations of rumors that China ...
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Recession Watch: Green Dot IPO… Prepaid Debit Cards

Posted: February 27, 2010 at 6:30 am

This week brought about an interesting initial public offering filing from a company called Green Dot Corporation.  If you are looking for a beneficiary of hard times and a world ...
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Next Week’s Top Must Watch Issues (AIG, BRK-B, CRXX, COST, MIL, TMO, MMM, SIRI, PAY, F, TM)

Posted: February 26, 2010 at 2:34 pm

Earnings season has mostly wound down.  We have many key business events and key economic events scheduled for next week.  In asset sales and merger land, we will be paying ...
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Big Dividend Hikes Will Bring Only More Big Dividends (GPS, KMB, JPM, GE, DOW, CSCO, AAPL, MMM, DVY)

Posted: February 26, 2010 at 11:43 am

Everyone, or at least most everyone, loves dividends.  While some investors love share buybacks, dividends seem to be the new way we are seeing for companies to reward shareholders.  The ...
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Day Trader & Active Trader Alerts (AIG, ATHN, CKR, CROX, DECK, PALM, SIRI, INET)

Posted: February 26, 2010 at 9:04 am

This morning's top movers for day traders and active traders are seen in the following: American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) down over 5% athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN) down 11% ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ATHN, BARE, CHU, CIEN, DPS, EPB, EQY, LAMR, PALM, TQNT, UPL)

Posted: February 26, 2010 at 8:32 am

These are this Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls early this morning: athenahealth (NASDAQ: ATHN) downgraded to market perform at JMP Securities, cut ...
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AIG’s Less Worser Results

Posted: February 26, 2010 at 8:05 am

AIG announced two bad pieces of news but each was framed as good. The insurance company which has benefited from a $180 billion US bailout reported a net loss attributable ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors

Posted: February 26, 2010 at 7:55 am

Updated throughout the day. Toyota (TM) may miss North American output goals (Nikkei news service) GM is going back to early bidders for Hummer now that its deal with Chinese firm ...
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Beware Of Greeks Bearing Bad News

Posted: February 26, 2010 at 6:10 am

EU economic inspectors and IMF officials have been in Greece to review the economic carnage. What they found was at the horrible end of a scale that ranges from good ...
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