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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Primerica Comes To America, Above Price and Range (C, PRI)

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 8:35 pm

Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) or Primerica Inc. (NYSE: PRI)?... The answer is both or either.  The financial supermarket is about to have one less aisle.  Citi is spinning off the ...
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Retirement Comes Early For Seniors Hopped Up On Poligrip

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 4:52 pm

From 24/7 Wall St. affiliate Heathcare Outsider The New York Times reports that last month, GlaxoSmithKline (the pharmaceutical company that can do nothing right) recalled a popular dental adhesive ...
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Winners And Losers In The Airline World

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 4:11 pm

Bob Herbst of Airlinefinancials.com exclusive special to 24/7 Wall St. Winners are: #1. American (AMR) and #2. JetBlue (JBLU) Losers are: Delta (DAL) and US Airways (LCC) with notable mention to Continental (CAL) ...
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R-I-M Turns Inside Out (RIMM)

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 3:30 pm

Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM) just stumbled on its earnings report.  The maker of BlackBerry smartphones posted earnings of $1.27 EPS and $4.08 billion in revenues.  These are up handily ...
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BioHealth Business Daily (AEN, ARQL, CTIC, ENCO, GENZ, OMER, OXGN, VVUS)

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 1:39 pm

Today's version of the BioHealth Business Daily seems to be more influenced by outside factors more than big blockbuster news.  Still we have many movers, some on news.  Today's cast ...
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Crude Calls on Global Imbalances

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 1:26 pm

By Jonathan Anderson (Caixin Online) Clamor over emerging market surpluses and China's exchange rate conveniently shucks off the hugely dominant effect of oil prices. (more...) ...
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Why Is Obama Opening Up New Offshore Drilling?

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 10:45 am

By Max Fisher of The Atlantic Wire President Obama has unveiled a plan to expand the U.S. coastal areas available for offshore oil drilling. The plan may come as a ...
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Refineries Stand Out in DOE Oil Inventory Data (OIH, USO, VLO, SUN, HES)

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 9:47 am

The weekly supply data is out from the Department of Energy and the refining capacity data continues to be a standout from last week.  The recent rise in oil prices ...
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Honeywell Guidance and the Conglomerate Dividend Chase (HON, GE, MMM, UTX)

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 8:41 am

Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) made our top day trader alerts this morning after the firm raised its guidance.  The company reported that earnings will be on April 23, 2010, ...
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Behind the Iron Fist

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 8:41 am

From Caixin Media by staff reporters Zhao Hejuan, Yan Jiangning and Ma Jingying A bribery trial for ex-Rio Tinto executives revealed the dark side of trade relations between iron ore ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/31/2010)

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 7:59 am

Updated throughout the day. Palm (PALM) will be bought by RIM (RIMM) (VentureBeat) China car battery company BYD may buy Maybach from Daimler (Guangzhou Daily) Douglas A. McIntyre ...
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The Twitter-24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Report 3.31

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 7:49 am

Twitter has, by most estimates, 75 million visitors a month, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter ...
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Another Unemployment Disappointment, ADP Down

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 7:31 am

The consensus estimate among economists is that the BLS will say that the US added 140,000 net new jobs in March. That could bring the unemployment rate down by a tenth ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (AAPL, ARMH, BIDU, CIT, DRIV, VTIV, OXGN, PSYS, RIMM, WLP)

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 7:25 am

These are this Wednesday's top ten analyst calls for upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in early Wall Street research calls: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) Started as Outperform at BNP Paribas ...
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Mobile Video Traffic Will Crush Cell Networks By 2012

Posted: March 31, 2010 at 5:41 am

Handset voice, video, and data traffic is growing so quickly that it will take up 100% of all wireless network capacity during peak times by 2012, according to Coda Research Consultancy. ...
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