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Monthly Archives: February 2010

Toyota Troubles Mount With Conspiracy Theories

Posted: February 3, 2010 at 6:06 am

Toyota's (NYSE:TM) problems get worse with the passing of each day. The company recalled about eight million vehicles worldwide from problems with accelerators. Toyota then shut down production for most ...
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An FDIC For Proprietary Trading (GS)(JPM)

Posted: February 3, 2010 at 5:46 am

The federal government forever has the habit of reinventing the wheel when a perfectly good wheel is already available. Paul Volcker and his allies on Capitol Hill would like banks that ...
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Bank Of America And AIG Set Favorable Bonus Payouts

Posted: February 3, 2010 at 5:12 am

The trend begun by Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) to pay bankers and management generous bonuses has begun to move to other financial firms. AIG (NYSE:AIG) said it had been able to ...
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More People Pay Credit Cards Ahead Of Mortgages

Posted: February 3, 2010 at 4:53 am

Better to be able to have a credit card than to own a home. TransUnion reports in a new study that the percentage of people current on their credit cards but delinquent ...
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Media Digest 2/3/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 3, 2010 at 3:53 am

Reuters:   Volcker believes that banks should not be allowed to make risky trades. Reuters:   Toyota (NYSE:TM) sales dropped after its recall announcements. Reuters:   More US consumers are paying credit cards before ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (2/3/2010)

Posted: February 3, 2010 at 3:23 am

Markets in Asia were higher. The Nikkei rose .3% to 10,404. Toyota (NYSE:TM) rose and Honda (NYSE:HMC) posted strong earnings. The Hang Seng was up 2.2% to 20,708. The Shanghai ...
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Ford Fleet Sales Account For Over 100% Of January Gains

Posted: February 2, 2010 at 4:36 pm

Ford (NYSE:F) did not bother to put it in the fine print, not exactly. The firm's January sales rose 24.6% to 116,543 from 93,506. That includes 4,128 Volvos sold last ...
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Trimble and GPS Earnings… No Bust, No Boom (TRMB, GRMN)

Posted: February 2, 2010 at 4:28 pm

Trimble Navigation Limited (NASDAQ: TRMB) is seeing some mixed reaction after earnings offer no major boom nor a major bust for the world of global positioning companies and the new ...
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Toyota (TM) Passes Ford (F) On Its Way Down

Posted: February 2, 2010 at 3:24 pm

The only thing surprising about Toyota's (NYSE:TM) January sales results is that they were not worse. Its recalls will probably catch all the way up with them in February. Toyota's unit ...
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Electronic Trading Price Wars (AMTD, SCHW, ETFC, IBKC)

Posted: February 2, 2010 at 1:26 pm

Shares of electronic trading firms are under a bit of pressure today over fears of more price wars in the highly competitive electronic trading arena.  The pressure comesx after Fidelity ...
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Leap’s Best Chance (LEAP, PCS, S, T, VZ)

Posted: February 2, 2010 at 10:31 am

Leap Wireless International Inc. (NASDAQ: LEAP) was up huge late in the trading on Monday.  In fact, it posted double-digit percentage gains on late-day that it had hired Goldman Sachs ...
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How The Deficit Could Curb American Power

Posted: February 2, 2010 at 9:47 am

From The Atlantic Wire By Max Fisher With the U.S. budget deficit to hit $1.6 trillion in the current fiscal year, a post-World War Two record, grim predictions are rolling ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (2/2/2010)

Posted: February 2, 2010 at 9:04 am

Updated throughout the day. The George Soros controlled Latin American land and energy venture Adecoagro may raise money via an IPO (Bloomberg) Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) may cut its CEO's annual payout ...
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Top Day Trader Alerts (CITP, DHI, ITMN, LXK, SIRI)

Posted: February 2, 2010 at 8:59 am

These are today's top day trader and active trader alert stocks.  We have links over to VSInvestor (except on one) with more details and analysis on each story: Comsys IT ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AMD, AA, AXP, APC, COF, DFS, XOM, FCX, MA, Q, SCHN, PCU, V)

Posted: February 2, 2010 at 8:35 am

These are this Tuesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in early all Street research calls: Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) Cut to Conviction Sell at Goldman Sachs. Alcoa ...
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