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Monthly Archives: February 2010

Palm Moves Further Down The Road To Obscurity

Posted: February 25, 2010 at 9:04 am

Palm (PALM) may not be dead, but it is dying. It could not survive that ongoing success of smartphone leaders Apple (AAPL) and RIM (RIMM). The iPhone and Blackberry just ...
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Top Analyst Upgrades & Downgrades (AONE, BIG, BRCM, CME, FITB, FLIR, GOOG, MRVL, STP, YHOO, TS)

Posted: February 25, 2010 at 8:50 am

These are this morning's top analyst research calls for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street analysts this Thursday: A123 Systems (NASDAQ: AONE) Started as Equal-Weight at Barclays. Big ...
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Jobless Claims Nearing Half-Million, Again

Posted: February 25, 2010 at 8:40 am

This morning's weekly jobless claims from the Labor Department are showing a whole new round of concerns that perhaps the recently weak consumer confidence is due to the notion that ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (2/25/2101)

Posted: February 25, 2010 at 8:31 am

Updated throughout the day Greece will sell a 10-year bond next week to raise about $3 billion. (WSJ) GE (GE) will sell a $3.3 billion interest in Turkish bank Garanti ...
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Hummer’s Demise Spells Trouble for Jeep And GMC

Posted: February 25, 2010 at 6:09 am

Hummer is dead now, the victim of years of making large trucks which got ten miles per gallon and a failed sale of the firm by GM to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy ...
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The Fiction That Home Sales Will Improve

Posted: February 25, 2010 at 5:43 am

Anyone who reads the papers or visits news sites on the internet knows that sales of new homes dropped 11.2% in January to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 309,000. This ...
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As Moody’s Targets Japan, The Sovereign Debt Crisis Moves Closer To The US

Posted: February 25, 2010 at 5:20 am

It is one thing when credit agencies downgrade the sovereign debt of modest-sized nations such as Greece or Spain. It is quite another when the world's largest economies like Japan ...
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Media Digest 2/25/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: February 25, 2010 at 3:44 am

Reuters:   Coca-Cola (KO) is close to buying its largest bottler. Reuters:   Microsoft (NASAQ:MSFT) won court approve to shut down computers that spread spam and viruses. Reuters:   Akio Toyoda (TM) apologized to Congress ...
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Asia Markets And Europe Open (2/25/2010)

Posted: February 25, 2010 at 3:13 am

Markets in Asia were mostly lower. The Nikkei fell 1% to 10,102. The Hang Seng was off by .8% to 20,345. The Shanghai Composite was up 1.3% to 3,061. At ...
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Apple iTunes Downloads Pass 10 Billion

Posted: February 24, 2010 at 8:20 pm

Apple (AAPL) iTunes passed 10 billion song downloads yesterday. It is a milestone analysts had been anticipating for the last month. The consumer electronics company celebrated the accomplishment with an odometer ...
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Nintendo’s Little iPad Killer

Posted: February 24, 2010 at 7:16 pm

Most of the press Nintendo, the world's No.1 video game console company, gets is for its Wii machine which has kept a lead in unit sales over the Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360 ...
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Could Twitter Kill Credit Cards?

Posted: February 24, 2010 at 11:26 am

By Max Fisher of The Atlantic Wire A nutshell history of money might go something like: First we had barter, then hard currency, then checks and credit cards, then... Twitter? ...
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Today’s Top Market Rumors (GOOG, MIL, UAUA, LCC)

Posted: February 24, 2010 at 8:22 am

Updated throughout the trading day... Google Inc. (GOOG)... The European Commission has asked Google to comment on allegations by rivals it demotes their sites in its search rankings. This is ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ADSK, STD, BBVA, BUCY, EOG, XCO, LEAP, STEC, TWX, UPL)

Posted: February 24, 2010 at 7:56 am

These are this Wednesday's top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls early this morning: Autodesk Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) Raised to Buy at Needham. Banco ...
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Hyundai Joins The Recall Parade

Posted: February 24, 2010 at 5:57 am

Hyundai has recalled 47,000 of its Sonata sedans to fix door lock problems. It does so in an environment in which American consumers are becoming more and more suspicious of the ...
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