Daily Archives: March 15, 2010

Credit Card Delinquency Rates Are Improving?

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 10:57 pm

One analyst who looked at the credit card delinquency rates for February noted that the figures appeared to be improving, but that they might be seasonal. It is another way of saying that ...
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Congressional Faction Prepared To Risk Economic Ties With China

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 10:41 pm

President Obama and Treasury Secretary Geithner have taken an extremely modest approach to what may experts believe is manipulative behavior by the Chinese vis-a-vis the value of the yuan. The ...
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IPO FILING: MagnaChip (MX)

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 2:33 pm

MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation is coming public. The maker of did not give formal terms of the offering but noted that it plans to sell up to $250 million in common ...
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More Apparel Deals Coming? (PVH, WRC, VFC, RL, ARO, ANF, OXM, LULU, UA, COLM)

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 1:16 pm

Phillips-Van Heusen Corp. (NYSE: PVH) has traders and investors speculating about or pondering which other apparel companies may become acquisition targets or which could end up in 'mergers of equals' ...
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No Signs Of Intelligent Life At Boston Scientific

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 10:31 am

Virtually nothing has gone right at Boston Scientific (BSX) since it bought rival Guidant in a bidding war with Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) in 2006. With a year of the transaction closing Guidant had ...
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More Dividend Hikes, More on the Way (PEP, KO, DPS, QCOM, AMAT, SBUX, CSCO, AAPL, GPS, KMB)

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 10:20 am

PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) is the latest of the big companies to hike their dividend payouts this morning. We have not kept an exact tally, but this is getting close ...
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The Worst Apple App Of The Day: Starbucks

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 10:02 am

The Apple (AAPL) App Store has about 150,000 applications which have been downloaded more than 3 billion times. Most of the apps are free, but some cost $50 or more. ...
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Top 10 Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades (ARMH, DWA, FNSR, GPRE, HAS, ICE, JDSU, LM, RSH, WMT)

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 7:33 am

These are this Monday's top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls during the pre-market hours: ARM Holdings (NASDAQ: ARMH) Cut to Hold at UBS. ...
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Today’s Best Market Rumors (3/15/2010)

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 7:27 am

Updated throughout the day. AIG (AIG) will hold back $21 million from employee bonuses (CNBC) Google (GOOG) will shut its Google.cn site in China (various) Arrow Energy will reject a $3 ...
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Market’s Downside Protected By Short Sellers

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 7:06 am

By John Tamny, Forbes The SEC is situational in its like of market transparency. Back in 2002 it embraced the economy-killer Sarbanes-Oxley with balance-sheet clarity in mind. But with transparency ...
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Moody’s To US: Aaa Rating A Privilege, Not A Right

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 5:11 am

It cannot be good news that the warnings from credit agencies about the US debt and deficit come almost monthly now. Moody's, in its latest quarterly AAA Sovereign Monitor, examined ...
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24/7 Wall St.’s Corporate Power Rankings (Week 10)

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 5:10 am

The 24/7 Wall Street Corporate Power Rankings of the thirty-two most important companies in America are determined by earnings, analyst rankings, important corporate news, trends in each firm’s industry, product ...
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Tiger Woods Next Endorsement Deals: PriceWaterhouse, Powerade, Citizen, Verizon, Chrysler, And Visa

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 5:08 am

Tiger Woods sponsorship income in 2009 was estimated by several media sources to be $110 million. Thirty million dollars of that came from Nike (NKE). There are no estimates for ...
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Google’s Recent Moves Badly Hurt Shareholders

Posted: March 15, 2010 at 4:49 am

Google's list of serious problems may be longer than it has been since the company's IPO. The search engine company is all but certain to close Google.cn, its Chinese website, ...
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