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Monthly Archives: February 2010

Active Cult Stocks Face Hurdles So Far in 2010 (LVLT, RFMD, ALU, FLEX, S, NLST, CNLG)

Posted: February 12, 2010 at 8:10 am

This earnings season has been a troubled period for most great companies.  We finally started to see real earnings beats and finally started getting guidance raised out of many of ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (DISH, DTV, ECA, EXPE, MMM, NFLX, PIR, SFLY, UA, UAUA)

Posted: February 12, 2010 at 8:01 am

These are some of the top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Friday morning: Dish Networks (NASDAQ: DISH) Started as Overweight at JPMorgan. ...
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Will China’s Central Bank Tightening Hurt Its GDP?

Posted: February 12, 2010 at 6:36 am

The People's Bank of China said it will raise the reserve ratios that banks in the country must keep to .5%. It is the second time that it has increased ...
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Another Brand Campaign For GE, Another Waste Of Money

Posted: February 12, 2010 at 6:09 am

GE (GE) has an odd habit of creating names for the initiatives taken on by its largest divisions or company-wide themes that show the conglomerate's plans for global growth. One ...
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The Double Dip Hits Europe

Posted: February 12, 2010 at 5:44 am

The theory that some or all the economies of the developed world could fall into a double dip recession got support today as the euro zone reported that growth among ...
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Nintendo Leads Large Drop In January Video Game Sales

Posted: February 12, 2010 at 5:18 am

The Nintendo Wii is such a large percentage of total video game consoles sales that any drop in its numbers signficantly affects overall industry figures. Wii sales in January were 30% lower than ...
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Obama Economists Expect 8.2% Unemployment In 2012

Posted: February 12, 2010 at 4:59 am

The new "Economic Report of the President" prepared by the Council of Economic Advisers shows that The White House has a more grim picture of the unemployment situation than may ...
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Media Digest 2/12/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 12, 2010 at 3:58 am

Reuters:  The IMF may join the bailout of Greece. Reuters:   The European Central Bank will help in efforts to ease Greek debt. Reuters:   Motorola (NYSE:MOT) will split its businesses in ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (2/12/2010)

Posted: February 12, 2010 at 3:24 am

Markets in Asia were mixed The Nikkei rose 1.3% to 10,092. Sony (NYSE:SNE) and Toyota (NYSE:TM) rose. The Hang Seng fell .1% to 20,265. HSBC (NYSE:HBC) dropped slightly. The Shanghai ...
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Jerry Yang Dumping Yahoo! Shares (YHOO, MSFT)

Posted: February 11, 2010 at 5:28 pm

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) holders probably never want to hear the name Jerry Yang again.  Well, those same holders will love this... Tonight after the close a filing at the ...
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National Employee Morale Day At Boston Scientific (BSX)

Posted: February 11, 2010 at 1:55 pm

Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX), the worst run of the large medical device and pharma firms based in the US, announced an operating loss for the fourth quarter of 2009 of $1.23 billion. ...
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Will One Solar Merger Precede Others? (SPWRA, FSLR, JASO, ENER, LDK, SOLR, WFR

Posted: February 11, 2010 at 1:27 pm

SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWRA) has made what may be one of the first decent sized mergers in the solar sector.  The company agreed to acquire SunRay Renewable Energy in Malta ...
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More Triple-Leverage ETF Launches (TQQQ, UDOW, UMDD, URTY, SQQQ, SDOW, SMDD, SRTY)

Posted: February 11, 2010 at 9:49 am

Usually we think of Direxion in the world of triple-leverage and triple-inverse funds, but there are others.  And now there are more...  ProFunds Group is launching new Triple Leverage ETFs ...
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Women’s Group Lauds Reverse Discrimination At Major Companies

Posted: February 11, 2010 at 9:38 am

Reverse discrimination is alive and well among large corporations which offer access to women's businesses that results in a high volume of commerce for female-controlled firms. The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council "Top Corporations" program ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (2/11/2010) (NYT)(AAPL)

Posted: February 11, 2010 at 9:12 am

Updated throughout the day. The Fed is in talks with money market funds to see if they will help to take $1 trillion out of the financial system (Bloomberg) Apple ...
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